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	<title>The MiFi Report &#187; grameen</title>
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		<title>Grameen Foundation Releases New Version of Mifos</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2010/01/grameen-foundation-releases-new-version-of-mifos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Latest Release of Open Source Software for Microfinance Includes Support for Spanish and Firefox 3.0 Browser and Interface for Banking Systems
SEATTLE, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ &#8212; Grameen Foundation announced today the latest release of Mifos, its award-winning open source software platform for microfinance.  Mifos 1.4 is the first version available in Spanish and also provides support for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grameen: Using Technology to Advance the Fight against Global Poverty</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/12/grameen-using-technology-to-advance-the-fight-against-global-poverty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/12/grameen-using-technology-to-advance-the-fight-against-global-poverty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microfinance has grown tremendously in the last decade, moving from little NGOs working in tiny villages to large institutions providing loans, savings accounts and insurance to hundreds of thousands of poor women and men.  Grameen Bank in Bangladesh alone has more than seven million clients, while institutions like Grameen Koota in India serve more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Congressional Gold Medal suggested for Muhammad Yunus&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/us-congressional-gold-medal-suggested-for-muhammad-yunus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/us-congressional-gold-medal-suggested-for-muhammad-yunus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hindu News

  Washington (PTI): Two identical bills have been introduced in the
  US Senate and the House of Representatives to award Congressional
  Gold Medal to Bangladesh&#8217;s Nobel Laureate and Grameen Bank fame
  Dr Muhammad Yunus.


  Congressional Gold Medal is the highest award conferred by the US
  Congress. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recession-proof banking?&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/recession-proof-banking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/recession-proof-banking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[credit crunch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[World Mag
Finance:  Grameen Bank and microfinance guru Muhammad Yunus came to America just a year ago with ideas—an success stories—on how the poor can survive a credit crunch &#124; Emily Belz
NEW YORK—There he was—silver-haired and in a Bengali tunic—arguably the most popular banker of the year in New York City. As soon as he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mifos wins Java&#8217;s 2009 Duke&#8217;s Choice Award!&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/mifos-wins-javas-2009-dukes-choice-award/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/mifos-wins-javas-2009-dukes-choice-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sun Microsystems
Best Java Technology for the Open Source Community
Competing amongst some of the most innovative and powerful Java technology-based applications, Mifos was selected by James Gosling, Vice President and Sun Fellow, as the 2009 Duke&#8217;s Choice Award winner for Best Java Technology for the Open Source Community.  We will be accepting the award at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lebanon&#8217;s microfinance market undersaturated&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/lebanons-microfinance-market-undersaturated/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/lebanons-microfinance-market-undersaturated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 08:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Star

BEIRUT: The microfinance industry in Lebanon is considered to be relatively small and is estimated to have a potential of 190,000 active borrowers,  Ziad Halabi, general manager of Ameen s.a.l said on Friday. &#8220;As of end 2008 the market consisted of 54,000 active clients, which means that only 28.4 percent of the market [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MICROFINANCE EVENT: Latin America &#8211; Caribbean Regional Microcredit Summit, June 8-10, 2009&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/microfinance-event-latin-america-caribbean-regional-microcredit-summit-june-8-10-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/microfinance-event-latin-america-caribbean-regional-microcredit-summit-june-8-10-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 08:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microcapital
Latin America &#8211; Caribbean Regional Microcredit Summit, June 8-10, 2009, Cartagena, Colombia.
Summary of Event: This is the 13th Microcredit Summit since the first summit held in Washington DC in 1997. The summit will offer the opportunity for microcredit practitioners, advocates, investors, donors, non-government organizations, financial institutions and those committed to the summits’ goals to assess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small loans lead to big returns&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/small-loans-lead-to-big-returnstahmina-maya-is-a-45-year-old-new-york-woman-of-modest-means-but-in-the-past-12-months-she-has-been-able-to-get-a-loan-to-start-a-business-and-make-the-regular-wee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/small-loans-lead-to-big-returnstahmina-maya-is-a-45-year-old-new-york-woman-of-modest-means-but-in-the-past-12-months-she-has-been-able-to-get-a-loan-to-start-a-business-and-make-the-regular-wee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 08:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC News
By Salim Rizvi, New York.
Tahmina Maya is a 45-year-old New York woman of modest means.
But in the past 12 months, she has been able to get a loan to start a business and make the regular weekly repayments on time, while many Americans are struggling to pay off mortgages and credit card debts.
And she&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quake-hit Sichuan to be Assisted by Microcredit&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/03/quake-hit-sichuan-to-be-assisted-by-microcredit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/03/quake-hit-sichuan-to-be-assisted-by-microcredit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CRI English.com
A microcredit program, aiming to give small loans to families in quake-hit Sichuan province, has started in Beijing.
Called &#8216;Danone Microcredit Foundation&#8217;, the project is a cooperative project between three parties, namely the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development of China, the Grameen Trust and the Danone Group from France.
The project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Talk: What is microfinance?&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/03/earth-talk-what-is-microfinance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/03/earth-talk-what-is-microfinance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miami Herald
Dear EarthTalk: What is &#8220;microfinance&#8221; and how does it help poor countries and preserve the environment?
- Eliza Clark, Seattle
The brainchild of Grameen Foundation founder Muhammad Yunus, microfinance is a form of banking whereby financial institutions offer small loans to the poor. The idea behind the concept, which originated in Bangladesh in the mid-1970s, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DGAP-News: BASF SE:Social business to promote health for people in Bangladesh&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/03/dgap-news-basf-sesocial-business-to-promote-health-for-people-in-bangladesh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/03/dgap-news-basf-sesocial-business-to-promote-health-for-people-in-bangladesh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AD HOC News
Ludwigshafen, Germany &#8211; March 5, 2009 &#8211; BASF SE and Grameen Healthcare Trust have announced the establishment of a joint social business venture. Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE, and Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Managing Director of Grameen Bank, signed an agreement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grameen Trust moves into Mexico with Carlos Slim Foundation</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2008/10/grameen-trust-moves-into-mexico-with-carlos-slim-foundation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2008/10/grameen-trust-moves-into-mexico-with-carlos-slim-foundation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lincolnw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Grameen Trust, international affiliation of Grameen Bank and Fundación Carlos Slim AC, announced the new alliance Grameen-Carso which will donate micro credits to the neediest people in Mexico.  Grameen Trust and Fundación Carlos Slim will have equal investments in this alliance and will start operating in areas with higher rate of poverty in Mexico.
Fundación [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The American Red Cross and Grameen Foundation Expand Partnership in Indonesia</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2008/10/the-american-red-cross-and-grameen-foundation-expand-partnership-in-indonesia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2008/10/the-american-red-cross-and-grameen-foundation-expand-partnership-in-indonesia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lincolnw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC, October 13, 2008 &#8211; The American Red Cross and Grameen Foundation are expanding their partnership to bring additional microfinance services to further alleviate poverty and revitalize communities in the tsunami-affected province of Aceh, Indonesia. This new initiative will enable YAMIDA, a Grameen Foundation partner microfinance institution, to open its first branch offices in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Global Financial Crisis And Microfinance</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2008/10/the-global-financial-crisis-and-microfinance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2008/10/the-global-financial-crisis-and-microfinance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lincolnw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As financial markets struggle internationally, some microfinance institutions (MFIs) have begun to see downstream effects in the form of rising lending rates. Royston Braganza, chief executive officer of Grameen Capital India observed “the demand for funds is high because microfinanciers have drawn up aggressive growth plans” and “the cost of funds remains a concern due [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yunus: Give 20% of Grameenphone Shares to MiFi Borrowers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2008/09/yunus-give-20-of-grameenphone-shares-to-mifi-borrowers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2008/09/yunus-give-20-of-grameenphone-shares-to-mifi-borrowers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BANGALORE: Nobel laureate and founder of micro-finance giant Grameen Bank in Bangladesh Muhammad Yunus today said borrowers of the bank were keen to pick up 20 per cent of the shares on offer in the initial public offering of his country&#8217;s biggest mobile phone operator Grameenphone. 
Speaking at a function here, the Nobel Peace Prize winner said: &#8220;20 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yunus: &#8220;Don&#8217;t profit from the poor&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2008/08/yunus-dont-profit-from-the-poor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2008/08/yunus-dont-profit-from-the-poor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobel winner says don&#8217;t profit from poor

from the International Herald Tribune   
The Grameen Bank is owned by the people who borrow from it. At a Microcredit summit, 11 groups have agreed to report their annual interest rates. A move that may help to keep with sectors charitable roots&#8230; [click here to read the rest of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grameen, IndusInd, SKS, come together in India&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2008/08/grameen-indusind-sks-come-together-in-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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Grameen, IndusInd, SKS, come together in India in $29milUS transfer
Press Trust Of India / Mumbai 2008
 
Three leading institutions, IndusInd Bank, Grameen Capital India and SKS Microfinance, today announced the closure&#8230;
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		<title>FAQs on Microfinance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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This interview was undertaken in Cape Town, South Africa between the co-founders of The MiFi Report.
Nick: Could you describe Microfinance in one sentence?
James: Microfinance is the practice of providing the financial tools that you and I take for granted every day, such as credit, savings, insurance, etc., to those affected by extreme poverty.
Nick: Can you describe the tools you referred to for providing [...]]]></description>
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