omLe journal du Social Business "W� h��� t� �e� �u� � ��i� ��nd�e� �ha� ��� �i�� ���� d� ��� �u���es� �n� ��� po�� ���� h��� ��� �h��i��." Muhammad Yunus AGIR Vers une économie solidaire ATELIERS MakeSense démocratise le social business EDITION SPECIALE International Social Enterprise Forum INITIATIVE: Babyloan, le microcrédit nouvelle génération I DEE Les outils financiers au service de l’entrepreuneuriat social ACTUALITE Le Pr. Yunus remis en question au Bengladesh Rise
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financial services. Ultimately, the goal of microfinance is to give low income people an opportunity to become self-sufficient by providing a means of saving money, borrowing money and insurance” (Dictionary. 2000). From a shareholders perspective looking at short-term returns, there are significant challenges with designing business models that understand and genuinely respond to the needs and perspectives of the poor (Louw & Venter, 2010). Traditionally microfinance agreements within the BOP market where
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Mission Statement Analysis New York City Ballet, Inc Mission Statement New York City Ballet's contribution to dance in the 20th Century can be measured in many ways, perhaps none more significant than the extraordinary number of ballets - including those by co-founding choreographers, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins - that the Company has commissioned and that are performed today by dance companies across the United States and the world. Creating such an unparalleled collection of works
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(Novogratz, 2011) In the first few days of her arrival in Africa, Novogratz is plagued by resistance both to her American-ness and the changes that she suggests. After numerous struggles, her tremendous resilience finally gains her acceptance in a microfinance start-up, Duterimbere. In the fledgling organization a lot is learned through trial and error and her passion for work shines through, even during the many challenges thrown at her. Here, for the first time she experiences the widespread corruption
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Poverty has worsened in the Republic of Congo since the 1980s and half the country’s people now live below the poverty line. This average, however, masks wide geographic and economic inequalities. Most of the country’s poor people (64.8 per cent) live in rural areas and women are among the hardest hit by poverty. In 2006, more than a third of children under five in rural areas suffered from malnutrition. Access to water is also poor in rural areas where only 11 per cent of people can get water compared
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Autumns Internship Project KPMG Strategic and commercial Intelligence Department Inverting the Pyramid: Inclusion in the Financial Services Industry Final Project Report 19/11/2010 Submitted By: Hufriya Kavarana PGP-09-031 S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai Inverting the Pyramid: Inclusion in the Financial Services Industry 2 | P a g e Table of Contents Preface .......................................................................................................
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How MIS Affects Organizational Functions The Management Information Systems (MIS) plays a very important role in business environment to become a significant strategy of its organization operation. According to Linda Banks, the author of “The Tea Room News”, she mentions the impact of MIS to business processes is “Management Information Systems (MIS) not only include software systems, but the entire set of business processes and resources that are used to pull together information from functional
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majority of the population lives in rural areas (at least in SAARC countries). Since the current GDP growth of India doesn’t reflect much in rural sector, microfinance has a very huge role to play. Mr Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh needs to be appreciated for his brilliant idea of Grameen Bank and the way he changed the fundamentals of microfinance with SHGs (Self Help Groups).
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Financial inclusion activities become one of the important agendas globally. The World Bank estimates that nearly 2.5bn adults globally (50% of the total adult population) is currently ‘unbanked’ or does not have formal financial services. These estimates have huge disparities between different regions of the world. In developed countries (OECD countries) high proportion of the adult population uses the formal way of financial services. While in developing countries two-thirds of the adult population
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MFIs from banks which could affect the countries growth at some point of time and also due to improper means of recovery method used by the MFIs. One of the main reasons for failure of MFIs was due to high interest rates being charged. When microfinance started in the country, it was more about getting the banks to finance microcredit to the poor, and attracting investments. Nobody discussed interest rates.RBI the regulator body under which MFIs comes under initially thought that Interest rates
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