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Regaining work and dignity: Argetinians celebrate Workers’ Day
May 4, 2014 9:37Some 25,000 people have celebrated Workers’ Day in Argentina, emphasising the role of worker cooperatives in regaining work and dignity, through 25 simultaneous events held country-wide, from Ushuaia to the Imprenetrable Salteño. These activities are a response to the call from the Argentinian Bureau for the Solidarity Economy that brought together the cooperative, mutuals and... ...
ABDB assists in enterprise competitiveness & export potential
May 2, 2014 9:08
The Antigua and Barbuda Development Bank (ABDB) and the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that allows legally-registered firms, individuals as well as business support organizations (BSOs) in Antigua and Barbuda to be in a better position to export their products and services throughout the Caribbean region and/or to... ...DBJ offers “green” financing & certification program
May 2, 2014 9:06
The Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) offers “DBJ Green Building Certification” in order to support its customers who own or operate real estate properties with high environmental and social awareness. Based on its comprehensive evaluation system, which includes not only an environmental perspective but also a social one (owner response to social needs of the... ...LDB Sri Lanka wins an award, boosts SMEs in the countryside
May 2, 2014 9:05
Sri Lanka’s Lankaputhra Development Bank (LDB) won the “Most Elegant Team” title at the 21st Inter Bank Quiz competition organized by the Clearing Association of Bankers held at the Hotel Taj Samudra. As in the previous years, the event was successful with 37 teams representing 21 banks competing. LDB is a full-fledged government bank opened... ...SB Corp runs specialized training programs for SMEs
May 2, 2014 9:03
The MSME Development Group of the Small Business Corporation (SB Corp) recently conducted a two-day seminar on “Financial Management for SMEs” (FMT for SMEs). The seminar was attended by 42 entrepreneurs from 28 firms most of whom are its clients. The seminar was designed to equip participants with the understanding on the different cycles in... ...ASKI provides development education for migrant workers
May 2, 2014 9:01
Philippine-based Alalay Sa Kaunlaran, Inc (ASKI) was one of the recipients of the Partners in Empowerment, Advocacy and Commitment to Excellence (PEACE) Award presented by the Metrobank Foundation, Inc (MBFI) during its 35th anniversary celebration in Metro Manila. ASKI is the implementing partner of the MetroGold Financial Education and Microfinance programs for 400 overseas Filipino... ...IIB bolsters private sector development in emerging markets via co-financing scheme
May 2, 2014 8:59
International Investment Bank (IIB) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, have agreed to streamline their collaboration to provide much-needed financing to private companies, boosting growth and jobs in emerging markets. The agreement was formalized at a ceremony where IIB became a signatory of the IFC Master Cooperation Agreement... ...NDB funds early childhood education school
May 2, 2014 8:57
The National Development Bank (NDB) through its “Woman in Business Desk” has enabled a Papua New Guinean woman to live her dream of providing early childhood education for young children in the nation’s capital. NDB presented a cheque of over sixty thousand to Margaret Kuiaha for the establishment of a school to help many young... ...Landbank supports national dairy industry
May 2, 2014 8:46
The Philippine’s local dairy industry is set to receive a much-needed boost through the “Masustansyang Inumin para sa Likas na Kalusugan” (MILK) credit assistance program – a partnership between the Land Bank of the Philippines and the National Dairy Authority (NDA). The program will make available financial and technical assistance for the production, processing and... ...Loan Officership Program (LOP)
May 2, 2014 4:30Loan Officership Program (LOP) The quality of a financial institution’s portfolio largely reflects the degree of quality of the lending officer’s performance in his assigned role. He has a pivotal role in attracting desirable clients and in undertaking credit initiation, loan evaluation and portfolio management through the quality of financial expertise offered to the market.... ...
Vietnam Study Tour Program on Micro Finance Enterprise & Community Development
May 2, 2014 4:27Study Tour Program on Vietnamese Microfinance Enterprise & Community Development This program is designed to give participants an experiential knowledge about microfinance and community development in Vietnam. By the end of the program, the participants will not only have increased knowledge about the economic development and poverty reduction initiatives in Vietnam but also have interactions... ...
Biometrics Use for Social Protection Programmes in India Risk Violating Human Rights of the Poor
May 1, 2014 21:00Gathering biometric data is beeing marketed as a means to more efficiently and surely deliver services to the poor. However this, and the threat of exclusion from a range of services if a person is not biometrically enrolled, has placed the weight of such projects on the shoulders of the poor. This think piece explores... ...
Study tour heads to Dominican Republic
May 1, 2014 8:59
This year Oikocredit will be hosting two study tours, its first to the Dominican Republic. A group of volunteers, members and investors of Oikocredit in Canada and the USA will visit partners across the Dominican Republic from 27 April to 2 May 2014. The second tour heads for Bolivia in May. The annual tours are... ...PRESS RELEASE: World Fair Trade Day, 10 May 2014
May 1, 2014 6:11Fair Trade producers and the people buying their products are the real drivers of the growth of Fair Trade. Backed…
Social Economy, Culture and Identity across the Border: Lessons from the Basque Case
April 30, 2014 21:00This think piece addresses the role of the Third Sector and Social Economy in the emergence of cross-border network governance in the Basque border region between France and Spain. Cross-border relations have historically been initiated by movements within civil society, anticipating policy actors in this matter. A policy change occurred in the 1990s, with the... ...
