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The Indian government yesterday introduced a bill in parliament to empower the Reserve Bank of India to regulate the microfinance industry and fix an interest rate ceiling on loans provided by them. The Micro Finance Institutions (Development and ...
May 22, 2012 at 17:47 | Source: The Daily Star
BACKGROUND The Relief and Social Services Programme (RSSP) is one of the Agency’s five core programme departments. Agency-wide, the vast majority of RSSP’s financial and human resources are directed towards the relief or social assistance programme ...
May 28, 2012 at 08:43 | Source: Reliefweb.int
ACTED is an independent international, private, non-partisan and non-profit organization that operates according to principles of strict neutrality, political and religious impartiality, and non discrimination. ACTED was created in 1993 to support ...
May 18, 2012 at 20:15 | Source: Reliefweb.int
Dhaka, May 10 (bdnews24.com) — Local Government Minister Syed Ashraful Islam once again on Thursday criticised the country's top microcredit operator Grameen Bank and its Nobel prize-winning former managing director Muhammad Yunus. "The country cannot be ...
May 11, 2012 at 05:57 | Source: Bangladesh News 24 hours
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed presented a Phoenix Award, the city's highest honor, to Dr. Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi banker and economist who won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for championing "microcredit" -- small loans given to poor and female ...
May 14, 2012 at 16:02 | Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution
One obvious area for similar rigorous evaluation is microcredit, the fastest growing field in global poverty reduction. According to the Microcredit Summit Campaign, the number of families receiving microloans grew from 7.6 million in 1997 to ...
May 12, 2012 at 23:57 | Source: Bloomberg
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has publicly given her backing to microcredit pioneer Mohammed Yunus, urging Bangladesh not to undermine the independence of the Grameen Bank, reports the BBC. Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for setting up Grameen ...
May 6, 2012 at 13:20 | Source: THISDAY Live
"Two of my favorite men in the world!" she gushes as she sits down to chat with Muhammed Yunus, a pioneer in providing microcredit to the poor, and Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of the world's largest development organization. This is vintage ...
May 17, 2012 at 19:48 | Source: USA Today
The draft law would let microcredit companies improve debt collection and may also help raise funds, Chief Financial Officer S. Dilli Raj said in an interview. The Hyderabad-based lender’s loss last quarter widened almost fivefold, prompting ...
May 17, 2012 at 01:04 | Source: Businessweek
Small Business Minister Jason Azzopardi said schemes offered by the government to help business invest are essential tools. One of them, MicroCredit, has helped over 250 businessmen who borrowed some €23 million. He was speaking during a visit to Studio ...
May 24, 2012 at 07:01 | Source: Malta Independent Daily