Posts Tagged ‘microfinance in africa’

Microfinance Focus, Oct. 10, 2009: MicroFinance Transparency (MFTransparency) will host a training workshop in Nairobi on oct. 19 in association with the 2009 AMT Microfinance Investor's Fair to train industry professionals on pricing transparency and consumer protection. It will also mark the launch of MFTransparency' s Transparent Pricing Initiative in Kenya. The fair provides an opportunity ... Full story

By Dr. Arvind Ashta , Burgundy School of Business -------- MF Focus, July 10, 2009: Burkina Faso is apprehensive that the Millennium goals of reducing poverty by half by 2015 would clearly not be met for Africa, in the wake of financial crisis. The ex-prime Minster of the Ivory Coast and former governor of the Central Bank of the BCEAO, Konan Bany, explained that the first effect of the international financial crisis has been reduction in exports followed by widespread unemployment. To overcome it, the need for self-employment has become more acute, necessitating the need for microfinance, he said at the fourth African Microfinance Conference, held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries of the world, from July 7 to 10. Full story