Microfinance, Innovations, Sustainable Development - Employment

Nearly half of elderly in U.S. will face poverty

Gerard — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:56:19 GMT

64.6% of black Americans and 32.7% whites will face poverty, study says

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Rise of the social entrepreneur

Gerard — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:58:50 GMT

rise of entrepreneurial innovations that use mainstream financial instruments to facilitate social development. Corporate social investment (CSI) experts predict that a growing merger between social entrepreneurship and CSI will be one of the world's top trends in the future.

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Probanx - Core Banking Software - Microfinance Software

Gerard — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:56:44 GMT

Probanx Information Systems specializes in development of software for the financial institutions, offering multi-currency and multi-lingual banking systems with a large variety of modules, based on the latest technologies. We install and support turn-key international Banking Software and Microfinance Software solutions for retail banks, commercial banks, Internet banks and microfinance banks.

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Innovating solutions to extreme poverty

Gerard — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:02:02 GMT

US$2.3 trillion has been spent by the global North on international aid in the last five decades. Nevertheless, close to half of the world's population still lives in poverty. One in five live in extreme poverty. Aid is not working as well as it should. Unless we can inject the spirit of innovation into this provision, the extreme poor we try to help in places like Bangladesh will continue to remain poor.

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Africa on the cusp of a mobile payments boom

Gerard — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:59:18 GMT

Mobile technology has the greatest chance of delivering financial services to Africa’s estimated 325 million low-income, un-banked people. Examples of African financial innovations abound and the results are being felt across the continent, where mobile phone penetration continues to skyrocket. Dianna Games writes about the success stories and the need for investors to think from the ground up.

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Decoding microfinance

Gerard — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:27:49 GMT

He would have been a hardcore banker had he not branched out to microfinance. And that was because “it is a business with a social mission offering double bottom line satisfaction to all stakeholders”. Udaia Kumar, MD Share Microfin Limited Interviewed by Pranab Ghosh, Hindustan Times.

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Ghana: Prestigious US$350,000 Africa Entrepreneurship Prize Launched

Gerard — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:54:07 GMT

2010 Legatum Africa Awards to Recognise and Reward Africa's Entrepreneurial Business Leaders. Awards Ceremony to be Hosted in Accra, Ghana

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India : Customised corporate education to yield ''demographic dividend''

Gerard — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:14:55 GMT

A fresher, integrated approach to workplace learning can have a positive role in India's ability to turn its unique demographics into a dividend writes Angie Taras

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Can we bring Internet to the Poorest? Grameenphone Community Information Center did it!

Gerard — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:53:54 GMT

Grameen Phone and its Village Phone Initiative is akin to a public pay phone microenterprise run by a rural woman. A Grameen Bank borrower uses their loan to become a Grameen Phone microfranchisee. The new business owner gains access to the branding, training, and partners of Grameen Phone. To date there are over 200,000 Village Phone operators in rural areas bringing increased access to regional markets, knowledge, and services to the rural poor.

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Getting Microfinance Right: Loaning to the very poorest gives reason for optimism.

Gerard — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:09:40 GMT

Forty percent of the world's population lives on less than $2 per day, according to the World Bank. Yet even in the midst of the current economic meltdown, there is reason for new optimism in the fight to reduce global poverty. The optimism starts with the evolution of microfinance, which has proved not only that the poor are credit-worthy, but that banking institutions serving the poor are investment-worthy. In addition, microfinance is tapping into a technological revolution that enables areas with deficient land phone service to leapfrog ahead to cellphones and broadband. And, as this takes place, both philanthropy and capital markets are paying careful attention.

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Cameroon: Microfinance Workers Upgrade Skills

Gerard — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:46:46 GMT

The National Employment Fund wants to improve the performance of microfinance institutions in Cameroon, considering the role the sector plays in the country's economy. A workshopo was organised to that effect yesterday in Yaounde to build the capacity of workers and render the sector more productive.

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Prahalad: Eradicating Poverty through Profits

Gerard — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:32:12 GMT

“IF WE stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognising them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value-conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up.” That “simple proposition” begins a controversial new management book that seems destined to be read not just in boardrooms but also in government offices. “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Eradicating Poverty Through Profits” (Wharton School Publishing), is essentially a rallying cry for big business to put serving the world's 5 billion or so poorest people at the heart of their profit-making strategies.

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Rising Informal employment will increase poverty

Gerard — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:17:42 GMT

Informal employment is at record levels worldwide with severe consequences for poverty in poor countries, according to “Is Informal Normal?”, a new report by the OECD Development Centre.

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Nigeria: Federal Government to Create One Million Jobs in 2009

Gerard — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:51:20 GMT

The Federal Government is fine-tuning a multi sectoral arrangemments to create one million jobs capable of generating several thousands more employment opportunities this fiscal year, Youth Development Minister, Senator Akinlabi Olasunkanmi, has disclosed.

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A star is born...

Gerard — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:56:40 GMT

Welcome to this blog about Microfinance, Innovations and Sustainable Development

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