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Digg- BBC News Microcredit pioneer Yunus to star on The Simpsons http://bit.ly/cMf5yY31 July 2010 - 9:17am
- New post: Rang De: A microcredit initiative for the people by the people http://bit.ly/c7Lar331 July 2010 - 8:20am
- RT @davidroodman Danger in microcredit is overshoot a la subprime.Irony: can happen w/o profit, as social investors chase #microfinance myth31 July 2010 - 4:20am
- RT @opportunityfund: Microcredit only goes so far; not everyone is an entrepreneur. But everyone can use a little financial education and #microsavings!30 July 2010 - 11:13pm
- RT @opportunityfund: Microcredit only goes so far; not everyone is an entrepreneur. But everyone can use a little financial education and #microsavings!30 July 2010 - 11:11pm
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Pakistani 'Mama' breaks taboo with microcredit
It's unusual to find women restaurant owners in Pakistan. Nevertheless, Parveen is doing a roaring trade in Lahore. Without microcredit, she wouldn't have been able to send her children to school and she'd still be having rows with her...
Microfinance in Honduras: learning how to save
People in Honduras who ask for a microcredit are often sent on a course. The idea is that accounting and computer skills help small entrepreneurs succeed. In Central America, Honduras is a pioneer in financial education. Reporter Alejandro...
Microfinance: solution to everything?
"If you keep looking at microfinance from the point of view of idealism, it'll never work," says the director of an investment company. "But you can't see poor people as a paying concern," counters the lecturer in...
Microfinance in Kenya: Maasai vs slum dwellers
A new village is arising near the Kenyan capital Nairobi, and the country's largest microcredit organisation is putting a lot of money into it. Some Maasai leaders are pleased, but others are furious because slum dwellers are arriving in...
Microcredit for a mobile take-away
Microcredit is not just for developing countries. In the Netherlands, HandsOn Microcredit lent 5000 euros to a Surinamese mobile take-away owner and a Venezuelan guitarist. The interest on the loan is six percent and the recipients receive...
Microfinance in Rwanda: booming after the genocide
Microfinance is booming. Certainly in Rwanda. And the Netherlands is contributing to this 'success story'. Via both the front and the back door.
A successful story makes it easier to sell microcredit
A cheesemaker poses proudly with an enormous cheese in his hands in the advertising brochure of a microcredit organisation. He’s grinning from ear to ear. Next to him there’s a photo of a smiling Indian woman, wearing a sari...
Microfinance - what do the professionals think?
Is microfinance the ideal solution to poverty? And should you be allowed to make money from issuing microloans? There are as many different opinions as there are people. And this is certainly true if you ask the professionals what they...
'Kiva, don't use microfinance as marketing'
Changing someone's life through a loan. That's pretty much the idea behind Kiva, arguably the most popular 'people-to-people' microcredit organisation. In just over four years, Kiva - founded in San Francisco - has...
European Union to give microloans to creative entrepreneurs
Europe sees the microloan as a way to fight unemployment and poverty. The European Union has decided to spend 100 million euros to help entrepreneurs who come up with creative ideas. In the Netherlands, Princess Máxima opened the...
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