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How Can I Start My Own Business?

Strategy Driven

Home Equity Loans : While most individuals use home equity loans for affording a college education or for funding a home renovation, they can also be used to cover business expenses. Microfinance organizations provide small loans in order to help entrepreneurs get their business off the ground in the beginning.

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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

Servant Leadership Academic Programs & Education Opportunities. Why Technology Managers Make Great Leaders. How to Handle a Seagull Manager. Do You Have a “Seagull Manager”? Peer-to-Peer Microfinance: A Sustainable Solution to Poverty. Management. Project Management. Time Management.

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Making Microfinance More Effective

Harvard Business Review

The Grameen model of microfinance gained a great deal of attention in the international development field after early data showed that it was associated with high repayment and low default. Households responded better to health shocks and spent 20 percent more on education and 15 percent more on meat and fish.

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Lessons for Social Entrepreneurs from the Microfinance Crisis

Harvard Business Review

The microfinance industry has in just a few years gone from making headlines for the Nobel Peace Prize to stories about limited impact, allegedly abusive tactics, client suicides, government crackdowns, major lenders struggling with insolvency and the forcible removal of Mohammed Yunus as Managing Director of Grameen Bank.

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Why CEOs have Liberal Arts Degrees

Mills Scofield

Educating myself about the fall of the Roman Empire may not provide direct, transferable skills to the corporate office, the quirky startup, or any particular field of work. She's spending the summer in Dhaka doing microfinance. But I argue it gives me something even better: critical thinking skills.

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Banking on Women and Girls: Key to Global Poverty Alleviation

Harvard Business Review

On this 100th International Women's Day , it is right to reflect on how women have become the heart of the microfinance industry. It is easy to forget that the initial motivation for microfinance roughly 30 years ago was, to a great extent, gender neutral. Microfinance is about much more than extending credit. fewer children.

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How Large NGOs Are Using Data to Transform Themselves

Harvard Business Review

” So the Seilers responded by piloting a program called the Pathway of Hope, which focuses on providing case management for families. Moreover, 83% of clients who finished the program achieved their goals related to housing, employment, education, child care, etc.