A short introduction to microfinance

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Want to learn more about microfinance and how Opportunity International works? This microfinance video gives a brief overview of the system that is positively changing lives around the world.

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Geoff Davis, founder and CEO of Unitus, explains the meaning of microfinance and the huge potential and impact the field has. He goes on to discuss the difference between microfinance and micro credit. He reveals that microfinance has a huge growth opportunity as it is potentially a five billion dollar market and is currently about a one billion dollar market.

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Susan Davis explains how microfinance grew out of "a movement for social justice and women's empowerment and equality" into a "tool for income generation and productive loans." This Carnegie Council event took place on June 22, 2011. For complete video, audio, and transcript, go to: www.carnegiecouncil.org

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The 3rd Annual San Diego Microfinance Summit brought together students, business owners, members of the community, microlenders, bankers, academics, and many others to learn, network, and become more involved in microfinance. The summit highlighted both international microfinance issues as well as the local micro-lending climate. The following speakers were featured: Gina Harman, CEO, ACCION Network Maika Hemphill, North America Portfolio Manager, Kiva International Claudia Viek, CEO, CAMEO (California Association for Micro Enterprise Opportunity)

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A mother of eight walks five hours to make her first deposit in a community bank in Burundi, Africa, home to one of Five Talents' innovative microfinance programs.

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Daniel Davis, former community development specialist with the St. Louis Fed, traveled to Bangladesh in the fall of 2010 to examine the impact microcredit has had on the developing nation. While there, he had the opportunity to spend time with leaders of some of the world's most innovative microfinance institutions, including Dr. Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Prize-winning economist from Bangladesh and founder of the nation's Grameen Bank. Davis' insights are shared here.

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(www.abndigital.com) According to the Central Bank of Nigeria, only about 35% of Nigerians have access to the formal financial system including microfinance. Nigeria's microfinance sector has been criticized for favouring the rich at the expense of the poor. Uche Okoronkwo talks to Microfinance Guru and Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus about changing the course of the industry in the country.

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In over 20 countries around the world, Opportunity International provides loans, savings, insurance and training to over a million people living in poverty. Opportunity clients use these financial services to start or expand a business, provide for their families, create jobs for their neighbors and build a safety net for the future.

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ACCION USA lends support to small businesses, which help to develop communities and create jobs. www.accionusa.org

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The best microfinance programs have the transformative ability to provide a "new perspective of what's possible for someone's life," states Jessica Jackley, co-founder and CEO of ProFounder and co-founder of Kiva. Jackley has been recognized as an innovator in developing new models for financing entrepreneurial endeavors around the globe through microfinance. At the St. Louis Fed's May 2011 Exploring Innovation conference, where she was a keynote speaker, Jackley spoke with community development specialist Daniel Davis about her extensive experience in the industry and the work she is doing now to catalyze investments in entrepreneurship within the US

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www.ListenUpTV.com | Poverty: one of God's biggest public relations challenges. Where is God when children go to bed hungry? In this segment, Lorna speaks with international economist, Dambisa Moyo and her controversial ideas of alleviating poverty. Plus, speaking with Paula Curtis of Opportunity International about their micro finance priority in their organization.

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HOLD UP GUYS! You're about to learn about microfinance! Also to the girl who commented about WV supporting patriarchalism and how I responded that I'd address that in my next vlog, I kind of did a bit but it didn't fit into the rhythm, anyway the vast majority of Harmos loan recipients (ie, small business owners they're supporting) are women. Anyway that's it from Zambia! I hope you found watching them an amazing experience. www.worldvisionvloggers.com Shawna: youtube.com Alex: youtube.com

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Google Tech Talk November 15, 2010 Presented by Casey Wilson. ABSTRACT Booming economic zones, the Shanghai skyline, glitzy shopping malls and busy highways... these are the images that we increasingly associate with today's China. And yet while the economic success story is inescapable, China still has the second largest population in the world living under the poverty line and one of the world's fasting growing rural-urban divides. One of the only ways of closing this gap is giving China's rural poor the tools to build their own livelihoods and move themselves and their families towards economic independence. Join Casey Wilson, nonprofit startup entrepreneur, to learn about the evolution of microfinance in China and Wokai's approach of using the internet to allow contributors around the world to provide loan capital to borrowers in rural China, empowering them to start small businesses and lift themselves from poverty. About Wokai: Wokai is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to alleviating poverty in China through microfinance. Through www.wokai.org, contributors loan as little as $10 to a borrower, collect repayments each month, and allocate capital to a new borrower at the end of the loan cycle. Since the website launch in November 2008, Wokai has raised over US$250000 in loan capital, attracted 5600 users, and empowered over 400 borrowers. Wokai has been featured in CNN, Time, MSNBC, CNBC, Newsweek, CCTV, Phoenix TV, 三联生活周刊, and Bloomberg. About Casey Wilson: As <b>...</b>

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Microfinance breaks the cycle of poverty through economic development. Here's how.

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www.simondixon.org Simon Dixon speaks out to students and gradautes at University College Of London on Banking and Monetary Reform and Microfinance. Simon Dixon believes that combining new innovations in finance like person to person lending and microfinance with monetary reform and banking reform will be the twin combination to remove 'boom and bust', 'too big to fail', 'crazy bankers bonuses' and have a dent in third world poverty. http

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www.milaap.org Microfinance for dummies Find a person who has no money. Give them a really small sum of money for a project that they want to do that will give them more money. When they succeed and get the more money, then they'll give you back your original money. Sound easy enough? Wanna read more on my thoughts on Milaap? Click here: www.locomote.org So I wanna work together with you guys to actually do a real project on the ground! I'll update more with videos later, so keep an eye out for that. For now, if you're especially interested, let me know. Or just keep an eye out for more to come soon! Follow my latest location on Twitter: www.twitter.com

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Improving the economic situation of women is key to peace-building efforts in Liberia following a civil war that tore the country apart and left 75 percent of its people in extreme poverty. UNDP, with funds from Denmark, has set up revolving microloans that provide funds to women entrepreneurs, many of whom are heads of households. Women make up 80 percent of the informal sector in Liberians economy

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eqhd.ca- Microfinance is a revolutionary method of funding projects in the developing world, considered by many experts to be the world's most effective anti-poverty tool. What is your opinion of microfinance, do you think it is a sustainable solution? Like us on Facebook http Follow us on Twitter twitter.com

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I'm Alex Villarreal with the VOA Special English Economics Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Microfinance is a fast-growing part of the financial industry in many developing countries. Micro lenders give small loans to poor people to start or expand businesses. Microcredit offers a chance to improve lives and reduce poverty. But officials in Andhra Pradesh, in southern India, are investigating whether debt collections are linked to a series of suicides among borrowers. Reddi Subrahmanyam is a rural development official in that state. He says many of these deaths happened immediately after the recovery agents of the microfinance institutions either visited the house or did something insulting.Reports of corruption and abuses have led to emergency measures in Andhra Pradesh to ban some collection methods. These rules also aim to limit costly fees and high interest rates on loans. The Asian Development Bank says microfinance institutions in the Asia-Pacific area charge interest of thirty to seventy percent a year. Charges can be even higher when other costs are added. But micro lenders also face higher operating costs compared to traditional lenders. Groups like the Asian Development Bank oppose limits on interest rates because of these high business costs.Economist Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in two thousand six for his work with microfinance. In the nineteen seventies he started what became the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. Grameen says it charges twenty <b>...</b>

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www.ibm.com IBM collaborated with Grameen Foundation to develop an open source banking software system designed to help micro finance institutions dramatically improve the timeliness and accuracy of loan information. IBM then worked with the MFI Grameen Koota to implement the system at their 50+ branches across India serving more than 350000 borrowers.

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This video showcases the growth and impact Grameen Foundation's Mifos technology platform has had in helping Grameen Koota advance towards its mission of providing financial services to 2 million poor clients throughout the Karnataka region in India. Grameen Koota, through its investment in Mifos has grown to serve more than 400000 clients and generating a $5 million Return on Investment (ROI) that is being used to broaden outreach to the poor by maintaining the lowest interest rates in the region and expanding to the rural outlying areas with the clients in greatest need. Currently only 150 million people living on less than $2/day have access to financial services through microfinance. To reach the remaining 89% in need, the industry must expand its outreach and impact. To date, technology has been a barrier to this growth. Grameen Foundation through its Technology for Microfinance Initiative and its open source Mifos Platform is committed to transforming technology from a barrier into accelerator that scales the growth and impact of microfinance. Grameen Koota is one of the world's leading microfinance institutions (MFIs) providing financial services to more than 400000 poor clients throughout Bangalore, India. They partnered with Grameen Foundation to invest in the Mifos platform as their complete technology management solution to manage their operations and enable them to fulfill both their business and social goals. Mifos is an open source information management <b>...</b>

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A Bangladesh court has upheld a government order dismissing microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus as head of Grameen Bank, a microfinance institution he founded three decades ago. As Yunus battles attacks on his reputation , the microfinance industry worldwide struggles to emerge from a cloud. VOA's Laurel Bowman has more.

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Sarita herself belongs to three different microfinance groups in Kochilanuagaon village, and acts as secretary for one of them. Her mother and aunt are also members of these groups, and Sarita says there are around twenty such units in her village, consisting of not only housewives but also labourers and domestic workers. The members of these groups save money from their household savings and contribute to a fund from which they draw large amounts to start micro-businesses. Sarita tells us that there is a social organization called CYSD who helps women to start these groups, and they have a meeting on the 5th of every month. The group I show in my video was the first to start in my village, says Sarita. I can say that all the women who are a part of these groups, who are active members have been helped a lot. Especially for things like education and marriages and purchase of land. The advantage is that we can borrow money from our microfinance group at a lower interest. The money-lenders would charge around 5-10%, and now we have to pay only 2. As in our Community Correspondent Rohini's video on a microfinance group in Walhe village in Maharashtra, the women in Sarita's video have been empowered similarly. Not only have they been able to become self-sufficient, they have also found a social circle and a support group. Furthermore, they are now freer to move around outside their houses and learn about savings and investment, things which would have been unimaginable <b>...</b>

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"Vincent Perlas is a former doctor, and head of microfinance for Lifebank, an organization located in rural Philippines. Lifebank tells a story of how microlending has helped a disabled woman pull her family from poverty and into the middle class. Perlas discusses the three ingredients to success, which he outlines as spirit, methodology, and funding."

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Tabinda Naeem /Laurel Bowman, Urdu VOA News A Bangladesh court has upheld a government order dismissing microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus as head of Grameen Bank, a microfinance institution he founded three decades ago. As Yunus battles attacks on his reputation, the microfinance industry worldwide struggles to emerge from a cloud. *An original soundbite from Dr. Yunus about the reason behind developing microfinance was added.*

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