Entries tagged with microfinance

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Notes From The Field: Pat on the Road to Pampas >
pkelly
• 05/21/10
• Posted in case study, microfinance, oikocredit, Peru, ppi, Prisma
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It is not so easy to get to Pampas. Our group—Norma Rosas from PRISMA, Yolirruth Nunez, social monitoring officer with Oikocredit, and myself—set out from the nearest city, Huancayo.

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Notes From The Field: Pat meets PRISMA >
pkelly
• 05/18/10
• Posted in case study, microfinance, Peru, ppi, Prisma
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I arrived at PRISMA headquarters in Peru during a busy week for the microfinance institution. Director Diego Fernandez, who founded PRISMA in 1986, showed me around the four-story building where 38 staff members share space. They are administrators of every kind: accountants, human resource personnel, program managers and assistants—every position required by a mature microfinance organization. Lunch in the cafeteria was a highlight—Diego himself often helps “organize” the service and I was told he sometimes even cooks!

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In A Broken City, Fonkoze Stands >
Leah Nedderman
• 01/25/10
• Posted in Fonkoze, Haiti, microfinance, poverty
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One of the most urgent problems facing Haiti is the rising price of goods, exacerbated by a shortage of cash in the country. National banks have been slow to open, and even slower to make significant sums of cash available to other financial institutions in the country. One of my Haitian friends wrote on Saturday: “Thanks to God I am still alive but I have a lot of friend died [sic].

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