Microenterprise: laying the Foundation for Economic DevelopmentDIANE Publishing, 2004 - 80 pagina's |
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access to financial ACCION International ACDI/VOCA Africa Agency for International Bangladesh benefits build Business Development Foundation business development services business services capital collateral countries create Croix-des-Bouquets Dagana donors economic employment empowerment enabling environment ensure enterprises entrepreneurs expand financial institutions financial services firms funds Gaddi Vasquez global Grameen Bank Grameen Foundation USA GrameenPhone growth households impact improve income increased Informal Sector investments Khmelnytsky Oblast Latin America loan officers MFIs micro and small microcredit microenterprise development microenterprise programs microentrepreneurs microfinance industry microfinance institution MFI microfinance institutions microfinance sector microlenders million operating Opportunity International organizations outreach Pacific Business Development Pacific island Peace Corps Peace Corps volunteers percent poor women poorest poverty line poverty reduction promote providing financial services region regulatory repayment rates Samoa small businesses small loans South Pacific Business SPBD strategies successful microfinance sustainable targeted U.S. Agency U.S. Department USAID Microenterprise
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Pagina 9 - HIV, and some 624,000 children under the age of 15 have lost one or both parents to the disease.
Pagina 15 - The US ranked as the lead or co-equal shareholder in all the other MDBs: The World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Although the US couldn't dictate policies and procedures in these multilateral institutions, it was able to exercise considerably more influence on the Banks than other shareholders. This was not true in the African Development Bank. Because the United States, under the terms of the 1982...
Pagina 20 - Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS) at the University of Maryland.
Pagina 10 - EBRD was established in 1991 to promote the development of free market economies in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The US is the single largest shareholder in the EBRD with a 10.4% share following the Bank's 1996 capital increase.
Pagina 9 - As noted earlier, in the discussion of its segmented structure, informal employment is comprised of both self-employment in informal enterprises (ie small and/or unregistered) and wage employment in informal jobs (ie without secure contracts, worker benefits or social protection).