Tag: Microenterprise
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An Anti-Poverty Program That Really Works
Pacific Standard: An Anti-Poverty Program That Really Works "The study, run by an international team of economists, included 10,495 households in Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Pakistan, and Peru. Almost half of the families in the study lived on less than $1.25 a day. The specifics of Graduation varied by country, but the basic premise was the same.…
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Kenya’s mobile telephones: Vital for the poor
Economist: Kenya's mobile telephones: Vital for the poor AFRICA'S "mobile decade", when telephones at last reached most corners of the continent, has meant a huge improvement in the lives of the poor. But quantifying it is hard. How useful can a mobile phone be to someone living on less than $2.50 a day, the World…
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Incubating women’s businesses in the Palestinian territories
Christian Science Monitor: Incubating women's businesses in the Palestinian territories Tomorrow’s Youth Organization based in Nablus, on the West Bank, helps promising new women's businesses survive. … TYO’s Women’s Incubation Services for Entrepreneurs (WISE) brought back six businesses that had developed a foundation from their initial women’s entrepreneurship program—Fostering Women Entrepreneurs in Nablus, and recruited…
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Red-Light Rescue
Christianity Today: Red-Light Rescue (HT Dana Ames) This is a lengthy article about how micro-enterprise is freeing women from the lives of prostitution around the world. It is worth taking the time to read. Here are some excerpts: The 'business' of helping the sexually exploited help themselves. ……. The problem is that women on street…
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Kiva – Ending Global Poverty Person-to-Person
Almost twenty years ago, some classmates from Eastern University had the idea of connecting individual investors in the United States with individuals in developing nations who needed capital to start businesses. Investments as small as $100 would purchase the equipment and resources necessary (e.g., sewing machine, tools, seeds, etc.) to get an entrepreneur started. There…