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Making the Link Between Poverty and Illness: Microfinance Takes on Healthcare in India
Sustainable Finance: "The biggest enemy of health in the developing world is poverty." -- Kofi Annan[1] /> A fifth of all childhood deaths worldwide occur in India, wher
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The Hottest Trend in Microfinance: Village Savings and Loan Associations
Sustainable Finance: "Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs), based in the community, are complementary to MFIs, tending to serve the very poor whose income is irr
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The Green Envelope Please: The 2012 FT/IFC Sustainable Finance Awards
Sustainable Finance: "These awards recognize the key role that sustainable finance can play in creating jobs, fighting climate change, and improving access to finance." -
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The Paris Appeal: A Call for Microfinance Reform
Sustainable Finance: "You need different regulation for microfinance; sometimes that's hard to get." -- Lars Thunell, Executive Vice President and CEO, International Fina
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A Little Money Goes a Long Way: A Record 137 Million Microloans Issued to the World's Poorest in 2010
Sustainable Finance: "If you are talking about the...poorest segment, the question is, do they really see themselves in the long run? Do they have dreams? My experience [
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Kilimo Salama: Farmers in Kenya Cash in on a New Microinsurance Program
Sustainable Finance: "Insurance...offers significant capacity and ability to understand, manage, and spread risks associated with weather-related events...increasingly so
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Microfinance's Dickensian Moment: Looking for the Age of Wisdom at the Global Microcredit Summit
Sustainable Finance: "Never before has there been such inspiring innovation in the field of microfinance, nor such cause for concern." -- Sam Daley-Harris, director, Micr
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Welcome to the Participation Age: Hillary Clinton Calls for Elimination of Economic Barriers to Women
Sustainable Finance: "We are entering the Participation Age, where every individual, regardless of gender or other characteristics, is poised to be a contributing and val
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Show Me Your Pricing Data: Transparency Helps Philippines Lead Global Microfinance
Sustainable Finance: "The Philippines receives a perfect score...for the way it regulates the microcredit activities of established financial institutions." -- Economist
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Deceleration of Microfinance
Sustainable Finance: "We never said microfinance was a silver bullet." -- Muhammad Yunus, founder, Grameen Bank[1] For many of the world's poor who are able to access a
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Small Loans + Fine Print = Big Problems: Striking the Regulatory Balance for Microfinance in India
Sustainable Finance: "It would be a shame if over-regulation choked funds going to the poor." -- Vijay Govindarajan, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College[1] On the
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Pass the Gromperekichelcher: Impact Investing, Luxembourg Style
Sustainable Finance: A new Luxembourg impact investment fund focuses on lifting up the world's poor /> For many in the finance sector, Luxembourg is an oasis of economic
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India's Microfinance Collapse and Educated Second Rising
Social Enterprise: India, considered the epicenter of the developing world Microfinance Institutions (MFIs), is facing a severe crisis. The sources and events leading u
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Social Enterprise Investment Made Easy: ProFounder
Social Enterprise: How do you get investor buy-in for your social enterprise organization before its gotten off the ground? ProFounder, similar to the Kickstarter metho
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A New Microfinance Concept for Entrepreneurs
Sustainable Finance: Many people dream of entrepreneurship. But the chance to own ones own business remains a dream for those who cant find investors or financing through
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Profit Is Good, Right?
Social Enterprise: One of the most attractive aspects of social enterprise is that its practitioners are able to generate profits while delivering services traditionall
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Need Funds? Dial M for Money
Sustainable Finance: Need funds? What are you doing and where do you live? In some countries it's been common for years to pay a vending machine or a parking fee with fun
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Banking Competition in China Heats Up
Sustainable Finance: As Chinas economy grows leaps and bounds by the minute, multinational banks in China are encountering new opportunities and obstacles. While foreign
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Taking Market Research to the Source
Sustainable Finance: Hundreds of people visit Unilevers Concept Centre in Shanghai every day. Visitors can get their hair done at a salon. There is a living room and a be
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Tweet tweet! Twitter Ads on the Loose!
Sustainable Finance: Twitter may have 106 million registered users. But can it make money? That question has plagued the microblogging service since its inception over th
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