MOBILE MONEY-TRANSFERS SCHEME “M-PESA” AND ITS IMPACTS IN KENYA AND AFRICA AS A WHOLE. As the developed world begins to rebuild the recently collapsed global financial system, the financial architecture in parts of the developing world is being rapidly transformed. As the costs of mobile phone technology have fallen, and as the technology has been adapted to support financial services, mobile banking innovations have begun to spread across and within poor countries. The low cost, and the widespread
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‘Explain within which context how can we adopt the contract of Murabaha in Mauritius “ Islamic Banking in Mauritius In 2007, the Banking Act in Mauritius was amended to cater for Islamic banking activities. The Bank of Mauritius issued the first Islamic banking license in October 2009 to cater for the approximately 18 per cent of the 1.2 million Mauritian population that is Muslim. According to the Governor of the Central Bank it would have been a big task to build a sustainable Islamic retail
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in New Delhi during 1999. For further information contact Sukhwinder Arora at the Department for International Development, New Delhi, India. ii PREFACE Over the last 15 years initiatives to provide financial services to poor people (the ‘microfinance industry’) have come on by leaps and bounds in terms of size and reputation. Despite this, the industry is still only in its adolescence and our understanding of why and how poor and very poor people use microfinancial services ( and why many
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UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES IN THE NEAR EAST UNRWA Do you have the dedication, skills, knowledge and experience to help us improve the life of Palestine refugees? The United Nations Relief and Works Agency offers challenging opportunities for professionals interested working in a results-driven and diverse environment. If you are then we would like to hear from you. UNRWA is the United Nations agency responsible for the protection, care and human development of a
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RBI & Its Monetary Policies Table of Contents NO. | Particulars | 1. | Introduction of RBI | 2. | Monetary policy | 3. | Monetary policy objectives | 4. | Monetary policy functions | 5. | Operations of Monetary policy * Quantitative credit control * Selective or qualitative methods | 6. | Operating procedures of Monetary policy * Liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) * Market stabilization scheme | 7. | Monetary policy tools | 8. | Recent changes in Monetary
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Organizational Assessment Report Client: Non-bank Credit Organization Finance for Development LLC, Baku, Azerbaijan Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Purpose of organizational assessment 3. Process involved in organizational assessment 4. Organizational assessment workbook with findings 5. Summary Non-bank credit organization Finance for Development LLC - Organisational Assessment (OA) Report Organizational assessment undertaken by David Alimbarashvili
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Financial support for MSME in Bangladesh The SMEs worldwide are recognized as the most effective vehicle for sustainable economic growth. In Bangladesh , a sustainable level of development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs ) is highly needed to reach the targets set by The United Nations (UN) in the millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to alleviate poverty . This urgency is reflected in the Government’s pro-poor policies, especially in the poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP) . Small
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Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) Working Group on Savings Mobilization RURAL BANK OF PANABO (RBP), PHILIPPINES (CASE STUDY) Ulrich Wehnert Eschborn, 1999 CGAP Working Group on Savings Mobilization CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS LIST OF TABLES AND GRAPHS 1 CONTEXT 1.1 1.2 Macroeconomic context iv v 1 1 Context of the financial sector 1 1.2.1 Role of the central bank 1 1.2.2 Regulation and supervision 2 1.2.3 General development and characteristics of the financial sector 3 1
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UTILIZATION = 5 TIMES THAT OF COMPARABLE PRIVATE CLINICS 8/11/2013 Dr. S.Balasubrahmanyam, IIM Kozhikode 9 OTHER INDIAN EXAMPLES OF MODEL-2 8/11/2013 Health: Vaatsalya Hospitals Dial 1298 Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospitals SKS Microfinance Rural Mobile Telecommunications Dr.
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EFInA: EVALUATION OF AGENT BANKING MODELS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES Oxford Policy Management Ltd October 2011 Evaluation of Agent Banking Models in different countries ii Oxford Policy Management Evaluation of Agent Banking Models in different countries Table of contents Table of contents Abbreviations Executive summary Agent banking regulation and impact Permissible agent activities Volume and value of different types of activities Introduction 1 1.1 Analysis of agent banking regulations Colombia
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