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Microfinance Information-- Pros, Cons, and Recommendations

Developing countries are riddled with societal problems—from excessive poverty, to corrupt governments, to insufficient education systems, and to poor health care, the road to development for these...

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Best Value Places To Donate Money

The best place to donate money is somewhere that money will do good - not just once, but over and over again. Microfinance, also known as microlending or microloans, is helping to break the cycle of poverty, by empowering business owners with much-needed micro capital.

7 comments    charity donate tithing
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Kiva - Microlending: A Silver Bullet For Poverty?

Now, let’s be clear about something, the main reason most people write these hub pages is that it gets our names out there. If a hub page is well written, if it’s interesting to read, the idea is that the...

15 comments    business finance investment
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The Cash-Smart Kids YouTube Video Competition

The Cash-Smart Kids YouTube Video Competition is a global search to select two entrepreneurs under the age of 16 to be profiled in the 2008 Charity Book Project, alongside Ben Casnocha and other big names.

3 comments    business money children
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How Charities Can Fight Global Warming, Peak Oil and the Credit Crunch and Earn Billions…

This article shares an innovation – a simple plan by which many charities could earn tremendous “profits” (to be plowed back into their humanitarian efforts) while dramatically reducing the impact of...

0 comments    global warming charity
Muhammed Yunes59

Microfinance

Muhammed Yunes The Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus, the founding father of micro-credit programs, one of the financial innovations that have arisen with the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, which was founded...

0 comments    finance poverty microfinance
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What is microfinance?

 Microfinance has blown up in recent years. Particularly popular in emerging economies, microfinance lenders make small loans available to underserved (especially rural) borrowers. But why has this fairly...

0 comments    venture capital microfinance
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Investing in Women for a Better World

Around the world, more and more governments and organizations have begun to recognize that women are not only more likely than men to suffer the effects of extreme poverty, they are also the key to ending...

4 comments    women charity poverty
Dr. Muhammad Younus67

MicroFinance Lessons for US Lenders

The Global economic crises has affected all and sundry. Even the heavyweights like Lehmann Bros, who could withstand the Great depression of 1930’s went kaput this time around. On the other hand MFI’s...

8 comments    finance money education
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Cashflow that helps people.

If you are like me you hesitate to give away your hard earned dollar for a number of reasons. Charitable organizations exist for good reason. However, we are bombarded on the television, radio, airports,...

0 comments    business finance charity
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