microfinance india

• Brac-Aarong: Financing and Promoting the Creative Industries

In 1972, Fazle Hasan Abed founded the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) and a holistic development model that has revolutionized income-generating opportunities for rural communities in developing countries. Through its handicraft and fashion section, Aarong, BRAC has developed a sustainable national brand that provides a livelihood in the creative industries for tens of thousands of people across Bangladesh. Initially established as a small-scale and rehabilitation project to assist refugees returning from India after Bangladesh's war of liberation, BRAC is now one of the world's largest development organizations. BRAC established Aarong, its handicraft-marketing branch, in 1978. The initiative was dedicated to creating economic opportunity for disadvantaged artisans and ru...

...BRAG'S APPROACH TO MICROFINANCE. A core component of BRAC's economic development i...

• International Trade Forum
• Num. 3, Juillet - Juillet - Juillet 2010

• Philanthropic Foundations for the Future: Different Approaches to Global Issues

The trend towards private philanthropic foundations has seen some of the worlds most powerful past and present leaders lending business and political clout to public-private partnerships for international development. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the worlds largest private philanthropic foundation. Since its inception in 2000, the foundation has pledged in excess of US$21 billion in grants to projects across the US and in more than 100 countries. Founded in 1998 by the Executive Chairman of the World Economic Foundation, Klaus Schwab, and his wife Hilde, the Schwab Foundation promotes social entrepreneurship as a catalyst for social innovation and progress. Established in 2003, the Clinton Foundation focuses on addressing global climate change, HIV/AIDS in the developing w...

... technologies to deliver microfinance products to the poor (www.cgap.org). Opportunity I...Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA, India) - the largest financial union in India providing ...

• International Trade Forum
• Num. 4, Octobre 2009

• New Business-Ngo Partnerships Help the World's Poorest

As international businesses explore the developing world to find new consumer markets, firms are realizing that long-term prosperity depends on the development of these markets. As a result, more partnerships are springing up between international companies, NGOs and development agencies. They are finding common interests and learning from each other in the process. For years the work of social entrepreneurs often passed unnoticed in the outside world. Now that is changing. Social entrepreneurs are set to have a profound impact on the world's most complex societal and environmental challenges. Their impact may be limited by their current scale, but could be limitless with the right business partners. Several developments indicate the rise of social entrepreneurship in public awareness. ...

...In India, it teamed up with NGOs to create Shakti, a rural ...* Microfinance. The success of microfinance is highlighting socia...

• International Trade Forum
• Num. 2/2007, Janvier 2007

• Message concernant la continuation de la coopération technique et de l'aide financière en faveur des pays en développement

... sont exclus des programmes de microfinancement du fait qu'on les considère comme des clients peu...Cameroon. China. ô te d. Ghana. Honduras India Indonesia. Kenya. Moldova*. Mongolia Nicaragua Nig...

• Feuille Fédérale num. 26, 8 juillet 2003
• Seccion Unica