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	<title>The MiFi Report &#187; microcredit</title>
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		<title>Nigeria: The Sins of Microfinance Banks&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2010/07/nigeria-the-sins-of-microfinance-banks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2010/07/nigeria-the-sins-of-microfinance-banks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M. Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerry Uwah
19 July 2010
These are not the best of times for the nation&#8217;s embattled financial  system. The capital market is yet to emerge from the abyss that  unrestrained insider dealings and calamitous share price manipulations  plunged it into.
Commercial banks are still waddling in the financial tsunami  triggered by the infamous margin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY Times: Big Banks Draw Big Profits from Microloans to Poor</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2010/04/ny-times-big-banks-draw-big-profits-from-microloans-to-poor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2010/04/ny-times-big-banks-draw-big-profits-from-microloans-to-poor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent years, the idea of giving small loans to poor people became the darling of the development world, hailed as the long elusive formula to propel even the most destitute into better lives. But the phenomenon has grown so popular that some of its biggest proponents are now wringing their hands over the direction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya: Still reeling from the effects of post-election violence, drought</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2010/02/kenya-still-reeling-from-the-effects-of-post-election-violence-drought/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2010/02/kenya-still-reeling-from-the-effects-of-post-election-violence-drought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are emerging from one of their lowest business ebb in the last two years due to the 2008 post-election violence, a severe drought and dried fund taps from donors as a result of the global financial crisis.
According to the industry players, the last two years have been the toughest for their businesses.
“The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microfinance meltdown in Bosnia&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2010/01/microfinance-meltdown-in-bosnia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2010/01/microfinance-meltdown-in-bosnia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A market-led lending scheme some hoped would be the driving force behind economic revival in Bosnia after the civil war ended in 1995 is facing meltdown. Its harshest critics say the scheme is not only in crisis, but that it has done more economic harm than good. Microfinance, where modest loans are distributed to tiny start-ups, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microfinance: The Next Bubble?&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/microfinance-the-next-bubble/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/microfinance-the-next-bubble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[global development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wealth of Nations
Our Rio de Janeiro correspondent, Mac Margolis, delves into a new microfinance study, and wonders whether the much-lauded sector is about as efficacious as a subprime CDO and as bubbly as a Pets.com equity option.
BWS The international financial crisis has destroyed many certainties, but one of the touted survivors
is the old saw that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Micro Credit in USDA’s Election Plan&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/micro-credit-in-usda%e2%80%99s-election-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/micro-credit-in-usda%e2%80%99s-election-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Irrawaddy News

  The Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), a mass
  organization backed by the Burmese military junta, has expanded
  its micro credit projects across the country ahead of the 2010
  elections.


  Sources close to the USDA said that the organization has
  increased funding for micro loans for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAP wants to help microcredit groups manage loans&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/sap-wants-to-help-microcredit-groups-manage-loans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/sap-wants-to-help-microcredit-groups-manage-loans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CIO
SAP hopes to help lower the cost of managing loan portfolios for organizations offering microcredits as part of a partnership announced Wednesday with French nonprofit group PlaNet Finance.
Microcredits, or very small loans, were pioneered by Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh as a way of helping the rural poor to start up economic activities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MICROCAPITAL STORY: Microloans In China &#8211; Recent Experiences In The Ningxia Province&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/microcapital-story-microloans-in-china-recent-experiences-in-the-ningxia-province/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/microcapital-story-microloans-in-china-recent-experiences-in-the-ningxia-province/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microcapital
In a Bloomberg report date dated 16 June 2009, reporter Dune Lawrence highlights the impact of microloans in rural China. By way of illustration, Wang Shulian started a business producing mineral powder that is used for plastering by obtaining microloans equivalent to USD 146 from an organization that supports rural women in the Ningxia province. [...]]]></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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		<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>Microcredit loans &#8216;used to buy food&#8217;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/microcredit-loans-used-to-buy-food/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/microcredit-loans-used-to-buy-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial Times

Fewer than half of microcredit borrowers invest the money in the grassroots businesses that such loans are intended to foster, new research into poverty alleviation has discovered.
But the claim is disputed by some microlenders, including ASA of Bangladesh, winner of the Banking at the Bottom of the Pyramid category in last year&#8217;s FT Sustainable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pushing pedals to give credit to world&#8217;s poor&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/pushing-pedals-to-give-credit-to-worlds-poor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/pushing-pedals-to-give-credit-to-worlds-poor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[York Region.com
BY L.H. TIFFANY HSIEH
 Jenika Wong doesn&#8217;t classify herself as an avid cyclist. Once she tried to bike on Hwy. 7 and was flagged down by the police and told never to do that again.
&#8220;I was pretty turned off from cycling in Markham after that, because of safety,&#8221; said the 22-year-old Unionville resident, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World poor have little access to microcredit: experts&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/world-poor-have-little-access-to-microcredit-experts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/world-poor-have-little-access-to-microcredit-experts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 08:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFP
MADRID (AFP) — The vast majority of the world&#8217;s poor still have no access to microloans that have been hailed as a good way to eradicate poverty, experts said Thursday at an international conference in Madrid.
&#8220;More than 95 percent of the world&#8217;s poor population remain far removed from any sort of financing,&#8221; the chairman of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsavings, a step up the ladder for the poor</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/microsavings-a-step-up-the-ladder-for-the-poor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/microsavings-a-step-up-the-ladder-for-the-poor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 08:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Mirror
In a developing country such as Sri Lanka, where the percentage of rural poor is high with nine out of ten people living in rural areas, microfinancing and microcrediting can play a vital part. Branchless banking,a concept still not fully introduced to Sri Lanka, has the potential to grow leaps and bounds and aid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing financial services &#8216;difficult for Europe&#8217;s poor&#8217;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/accessing-financial-services-difficult-for-europes-poor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/accessing-financial-services-difficult-for-europes-poor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 08:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EurActive.com
More should be done by the EU and member states to increase the quality and accessibility of financial services for Europe&#8217;s poor, a group of activists and people experiencing poverty said on Friday (15 May).
Currency issues
The need to urgently improve access to finance was highlighted at the conference&#8217;s opening session by Eva Szarvak of the Hungarian branch European Anti-Poverty [...]]]></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>Microcredit one bright spot in recession&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/microcredit-one-bright-spot-in-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/microcredit-one-bright-spot-in-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 08:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Star
Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus said yesterday microcredit could safeguard many retrenched employees from the effects of deepening recession through self-employment.
“It&#8217;s (microcredit) an important tool to create self-employment. It bears more significance in times of recession, as it shows laid-off employees a way to stand up again on their own,” said Yunus at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summit fuels microcredit interest&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/summit-fuels-microcredit-interest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/summit-fuels-microcredit-interest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 11:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Falcon
SPU hosted the first ever Pacific Northwest Microfinance conference last weekend in Upper Gwinn Commons, an event that attracted over 400 students, business people and community members. Headlining speakers included Skip Li, founder of Agros International, and Matt Flannery, CEO of Kiva. Li and Flannery urged participants to connect to those suffering from poverty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A life to save: direct action on poverty&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/a-life-to-save-direct-action-on-poverty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 09:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia News
People with more than enough have an immediate and personal obligation to help those living in extreme poverty, says Peter Singer.
Imagine you come across a small child who has fallen into a pond and is in danger of drowning. You know that you can easily and safely rescue him, but you are wearing an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MICROCAPITAL STORY: Venezuelan Government Bank BANDES To Open Branch in Angola&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 08:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microcapital
Jesus Alberto Garcia, Venezuelan ambassador to Angola, stated in an interview with Radio Nacional de Angola that Banco de Desarrollo Económico y Social de Venezuela (BANDES), the state development bank of Venezuela, will open a branch in Angola. He added, “This is one of the main things President Chavez wants to do with Africa.” Branches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microfinance must reach poor: expert&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 08:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
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KARACHI: Economic and social dimensions should go hand in hand to help microfinance reduce poverty in the country, said Sohailuddin Alavi, an expert on microfinance.
He was speaking at a discussion on ‘Microcredit’ held by Rotary Club of Karachi Defence here on Thursday evening.
According to Alavi, “microcredit is no longer known as microcredit, it [...]]]></description>
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