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	<title>The MiFi Report &#187; women</title>
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		<title>Korea: 2009 Citi-KOSBI Women Entrepreneur Awards&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/10/korea-2009-citi-kosbi-women-entrepreneur-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Korea Small Business Institute (President Ji-Jong Chang) has been providing Competitiveness Program for women-owned SMEs since 2008 with the sponsorship of Citi Foundation’s Corporate Citizenship Fund by Citibank Korea (CEO Yung-Ku Ha).
The award, marking its second year, was established as part of the Competitiveness Program to motivate women entrepreneurs and spread the best practices of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Micro loans cause trouble&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/10/micro-loans-cause-trouble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years, micro loans have been promoted by everyone from Nicholas Kristof  to Oprah Winfrey  as a great way to help women in developing nations pull themselves out of poverty. The idea is simple: lend women a small amount of money to start businesses, thereby empowering them, their families, and ultimately their communities.
Yet as it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Efforts are on to protect women from economic slow down &#8211; Krishna
Tirath&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/efforts-are-on-to-protect-women-from-economic-slow-down-krishnatirath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PIB Press

  Smt. Krishna Tirath Minister for Women and Child Development has
  said that the efforts are on by the Indian Government to protect
  women from economic slow down and also enable them to uplift
  themselves. Self help group movement is being strengthen further
  to mobilize more and more women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New corporation to lend money to Colombia&#8217;s poor&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/new-corporation-to-lend-money-to-colombias-poor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/06/new-corporation-to-lend-money-to-colombias-poor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bank]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colombia Reports
A new corporation intended to support poor families in Colombia has been created during the Regional Summit on Microfinancing in the city of Cartagena de Indias.
The bank will be known as Grameen Aval Colombia corporation and received a three million dollar starting capital of the Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo Foundation, whose namegiver, Luis Carlos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Micro loans from S&#8217;poreans changing lives&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/micro-loans-from-sporeans-changing-lives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/micro-loans-from-sporeans-changing-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 08:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asia One News
IN AZERBAIJAN, south of Russia, Ms Qatiba Jafarova has bought two cows to expand her home-grown dairy business &#8211; aided by cash loans from Singaporeans she has never met.
The 47-year-old is one of the many beneficiaries of loans made by a growing number of Singaporeans involved in microfinance, a system of lending money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financing Africa’s greatest resource: Women&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/financing-africa%e2%80%99s-greatest-resource-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/05/financing-africa%e2%80%99s-greatest-resource-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 09:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Afrik.com
&#8220;They provide 70% workforce and grow 90% of the food&#8221;
Decades after the world officially recognized equality between women and men as a human right, women remain largely excluded from the upper ranks of government and business, earn less than their male co-workers and face an array of customs, traditions and attitudes that limit their opportunities. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investing in Women’s Earning Power in Times of Crisis&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/03/investing-in-women%e2%80%99s-earning-power-in-times-of-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/03/investing-in-women%e2%80%99s-earning-power-in-times-of-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web News Wire 
Government policy responses to the global financial meltdown must focus on the role of women as economic agents in order to address the all-too-familiar trend of women and girls suffering disproportionately during times of economic crisis, speakers told the Commission on the Status of Women this afternoon as it held an expert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women in Nigeria, 32 other countries highly vulnerable to financial crisis effects&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/03/women-in-nigeria-32-other-countries-highly-vulnerable-to-financial-crisis-effects/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/03/women-in-nigeria-32-other-countries-highly-vulnerable-to-financial-crisis-effects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Day
Women in Nigeria and 32 other countries will suffer from the current financial crisis and food price increases, a World Bank report revealed. The New World Bank estimates say the crisis will have serious consequences for women in poor countries and their children, including higher infant mortality, more girls being pulled out of school, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women told to venture into small businesses&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/03/women-told-to-venture-into-small-businesses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/03/women-told-to-venture-into-small-businesses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Star Online
INDIAN women have been urged to discard the traditional stay-at-home rule and be bold to venture into small businesses, reported Malaysia Nanban.
Deputy Minister in Prime Minister’s Department Datuk S.K. Devamany said Indian women should get involved in small businesses so that their status within the community could be elevated.
He added that Indian women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miners lend hand to African women&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/03/miners-lend-hand-to-african-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2009/03/miners-lend-hand-to-african-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Post
This week&#8217;s Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada conference is attended by 15,000 delegates from around the world. Here is the first of my reports on the gathering and the sector.
Canada&#8217;s No. 1 industry, mining, built Canada and continues to be the single most important underpinning for Canadian living standards, far surpassing the auto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microfinance programs reaching out to Muslim women</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2008/11/microfinance-programs-reaching-out-to-muslim-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2008/11/microfinance-programs-reaching-out-to-muslim-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dubai: The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of World Bank Group, has dispersed almost $600 million (Dh2.2 billion) in the greater Middle East region, while working with 11 microfinance institutions (MFIs).
IFC has invested $72 million in the institutions based in countries in the region that have low access to finance, especially Morocco, Pakistan and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microfinance Empowering Egyptian Women</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2008/10/microfinance-empowering-egyptian-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2008/10/microfinance-empowering-egyptian-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lincolnw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Lee emphasized that he was not a historian and that he preferred to take an “anti-chronological” approach and explore the ideologies and central issues then apply it to history&#8230;{click this link to read the rest of the article}

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		<title>Microfinance changing lives of Afghan women</title>
		<link>http://www.mifireport.com/2008/10/434/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mifireport.com/2008/10/434/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lincolnw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KABUL, Afghanistan &#8212; Plump and jovial, with a grin running ear to ear, 35-year-old Nasreem operates a successful carpet weaving and embroidery business with the help of her two daughters.
The Kabul family is of moderate means. Her husband Korban works as a government security officer.
They were spared the harsh years in Afghanistan under Taliban rule, [...]]]></description>
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