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		<title>MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX) Releases French Edition of 2009 Arab Microfinance Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX) in partnership with Sanabel, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing Arab microfinance, and CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor), an independent policy and research center housed at the World Bank Group, recently released the French edition of its 2009 Arab Microfinance Analysis and Benchmarking Report.
The report summarizes the performance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.microcapital.org/microcapital-brief-microfinance-information-exchange-mix-releases-french-edition-of-2009-arab-microfinance-report/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=microcapital-brief-microfinance-information-exchange-mix-releases-french-edition-of-2009-arab-microfinance-report</link>
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		<title>MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Microfinance Experts Express Concern Over Rapid Growth of Microlending by For-Profit Organizations in India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article in the Financial Times titled, “Microfinancing Spreads Beyond India’s Grassroots,” discusses recent concerns raised by some microfinance experts surrounding the increase in microlending by profit-oriented companies in India.
The article claims that while Indian microlending originally began as a grassroots, nonprofit effort, it is now dominated by for-profit organizations.
“Many of these companies are suffering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.microcapital.org/microcapital-brief-microfinance-experts-express-concern-over-rapid-growth-of-microlending-by-for-profit-organizations-in-india/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=microcapital-brief-microfinance-experts-express-concern-over-rapid-growth-of-microlending-by-for-profit-organizations-in-india</link>
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		<title>MICROFINANCE PAPER WRAP-UP: A Business to Call Her Own: Identifying, Analyzing and Overcoming Constraints to Women’s Small Businesses in Latin America and the Caribbean, by Jennifer Powers and Barbara Magnoni, Published by the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jennifer Powers and Barbara Magnoni of EA Consultants, Published by the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), April 2010, 100 pages, available at: http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getDocument.aspx?DOCNUM=35282406
The authors of this study focused on the differences between male and female entrepreneurs in six countries in Latin America: Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Bolivia, Mexico and Peru. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.microcapital.org/microfinance-paper-wrap-up-a-business-to-call-her-own-identifying-analyzing-and-overcoming-constraints-to-women%e2%80%99s-small-businesses-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-by-jennifer-powers-and/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=microfinance-paper-wrap-up-a-business-to-call-her-own-identifying-analyzing-and-overcoming-constraints-to-women%25e2%2580%2599s-small-businesses-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-by-jennifer-powers-and</link>
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		<title>MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: SKS Microfinance Launches India’s First Initial Public Offering (IPO) by a Microfinance Institution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SKS Microfinance has launched India’s first initial public offering (IPO), anticipation of which stretches at least back to a report by MicroCapital on March 29, 2010. SKS Microfinance is an Indian microfinance institution serving impoverished women which has total assets of USD 596 million at March 31, 2009.
SKS Microfinance established a share price of INR [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.microcapital.org/microcapital-brief-sks-microfinance-launches-india%e2%80%99s-first-initial-public-offering-ipo-by-a-microfinance-institution/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=microcapital-brief-sks-microfinance-launches-india%25e2%2580%2599s-first-initial-public-offering-ipo-by-a-microfinance-institution</link>
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		<title>MICROFINANCE PAPER WRAP-UP: Why Microfinance Take-up Rates Are Low &amp; Why It Matters, by Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch and Sendhil Mullainathan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Karlan, Jonathan Morduch and Sendhil Mullainathan, published by Financial Access Initiative, June 2010, available at: http://financialaccess.org/sites/default/files/RFN11_Why_microfinance_takeup_rates_are_low%286-17-10%29.pdf
Evidence indicates that under half of eligible households participate in microfinance. In this paper, Mr Karlan, Mr Morduch and Mr Mullainathan begin by reviewing why take-up rates are important and how they can be measured. Data from thirteen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.microcapital.org/microfinance-paper-wrap-up-why-microfinance-take-up-rates-are-low-why-it-matters-by-dean-karlan-jonathan-morduch-and-sendhil-mullainathan/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=microfinance-paper-wrap-up-why-microfinance-take-up-rates-are-low-why-it-matters-by-dean-karlan-jonathan-morduch-and-sendhil-mullainathan</link>
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		<title>MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: India’s SKS Microfinance Raises $64m in Share Allotment Ahead of Initial Public Offering (IPO)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SKS Microfinance reported it has raised INR 2.98 billion (USD 64 million) in a share allotment to 36 undisclosed anchor investors prior to its initial public offering (IPO) scheduled to open July 27, as was previously reported by MicroCapital on July 22, 2010. SKS Microfinance is an Indian microfinance institution serving impoverished women which has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.microcapital.org/microcapital-brief-india%e2%80%99s-sks-microfinance-raises-64m-in-share-allotment-ahead-of-initial-public-offering-ipo/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=microcapital-brief-india%25e2%2580%2599s-sks-microfinance-raises-64m-in-share-allotment-ahead-of-initial-public-offering-ipo</link>
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		<title>MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: ThoughtWorks to Provide Software Services in Support of The Grameen Foundation’s Mifos Microfinance Technology Platform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ThoughtWorks, a global technology company based in the US state of Illinois, has announced that it will provide software engineering services for The Grameen Foundation’s Mifos Platform, a software platform launched in 2006. It is billed as a “software platform for microfinance institutions that offers both an online hosted service, Mifos Cloud, and a downloadable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.microcapital.org/microcapital-brief-thoughtworks-to-provide-software-services-in-support-of-the-grameen-foundation%e2%80%99s-mifos-microfinance-technology-platform/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=microcapital-brief-thoughtworks-to-provide-software-services-in-support-of-the-grameen-foundation%25e2%2580%2599s-mifos-microfinance-technology-platform</link>
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		<title>MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: All Commercial Banks in Fiji Establish “Microfinance Units”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Reserve Bank of Fiji (RBF) has reportedly completed an initiative in which all commercial banks in Fiji have complied with a requirement to establish a “microfinance unit.” Sada Reddy, Governor of RBF, comments that, “All banks have now set up microfinance [units] in their branches and [a] number of them have taken additional [steps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.microcapital.org/microcapital-brief-all-commercial-banks-in-fiji-establish-%e2%80%9cmicrofinance-units%e2%80%9d/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=microcapital-brief-all-commercial-banks-in-fiji-establish-%25e2%2580%259cmicrofinance-units%25e2%2580%259d</link>
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		<title>MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Loans $4m to JSCB Senagat and Turkmenbashy of Turkmenistan for SMEs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a USD 4 million loan facility to Turkmenistan for on-lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). JSCB Senagat, which is reportedly the only Turkmen bank controlled by a private stakeholder, and the state commercial bank Turkmenbashy will each receive USD 2 million. No financial information [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.microcapital.org/microcapital-brief-european-bank-for-reconstruction-and-development-ebrd-loans-4m-to-jscb-senagat-and-turkmenbashy-of-turkmenistan-for-smes/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=microcapital-brief-european-bank-for-reconstruction-and-development-ebrd-loans-4m-to-jscb-senagat-and-turkmenbashy-of-turkmenistan-for-smes</link>
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		<title>MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Special Provincial Administration of Kocaeli, Turkey, Distributes 993 Microfinance Loans to Female Entrepreneurs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Kocaeli, Turkey, a “Special Provincial Administration” has reportedly distributed microloans totaling TRY 958,000 (equivalent to USD 629,000) to 993 female entrepreneurs. The loan amounts were between TRY 200 and TRY 1,000 (equivalent to between USD 131 and USD 657) and recipients are expected to repay weekly installments from TRY 4 to TRY 20 (equivalent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.microcapital.org/microcapital-brief-special-provincial-administration-of-kocaeli-turkey-distributes-993-microfinance-loans-to-female-entrepreneurs/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=microcapital-brief-special-provincial-administration-of-kocaeli-turkey-distributes-993-microfinance-loans-to-female-entrepreneurs</link>
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