Posts Tagged ‘uzbekistan’

Microfinance Focus, March 1, 2010: Tashkent's Centre of National Art  hosted a ceremony to award the winners of the "Social Support of Family Entrepreneurship" competition on February 23, organized by the Women's Council Public Association and the National Association of Microfinance Organisations and Credit Unions (NAMOCU). Gulnara Karimova, Chairperson of the Women's Council's Organising Committee, presented awards to 128 Uzbek business women. An initiative set up ... Full story

Microfinance Focus, Dec. 22, 2009: The EBRD has announced it will provide a $5 million credit line to Hamkor Bank in Uzbekistan for on-lending to micro and small enterprises (MSEs), said a statement. The loan will help Hamkor Bank to expand its lending services, especially to micro and small businesses. MSEs are currently underserved by the large state banks in Uzbekistan who dominate with a market ... Full story

Microfinance Focus, Sept 11, 2009: Extreme poverty affects at least 10 per cent of the population in many parts of the Asia and Pacific region, Asian Development Bank said in a report. Titled “The Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2009”, the report lists 19 economies where more than 10 per cent of the population were living on less than $1.25 a day in the latest year for which data are available. Six of the 19 economies are from the former Soviet Union. Four of the five most populous countries are also included and the data is not available for Indonesia. Full story

Microfinance Focus, Aug. 20, 2009: The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank Group, is sending its executive vice president Izumi Kobayashi to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Georgia at the end of August on a fact-finding mission. Full story