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Sanduq: A microfinance innovation in Jabal Al-Hoss, Syria
Seibel, Hans Dieter; Imady, Omar - 2003
Jabal al-Hoss is one of the poorest areas in Syria where UNDP has supported the establishment of self-reliant local financial institutions, sanduq (sg.) lit. savings box: a novel concept in centralized banking system. The sanadiq (pl.) are self-managed and autonomous in their decision-making,...
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Centenary Rural Development Bank, Uganda: A Flagship of Rural Bank Reform in Africa
Seibel, Hans Dieter - 2003
Centenary RDB is a commercial bank that provides deposit, credit and money transfer services indiscriminately to men and women of lower income. By insisting on loan recovery and cost coverage, it has reached more men and women in rural areas than any other institution in Uganda. With minimum...
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Commodity finance: a commercial proposition? Micro- and Mesofinance for Agricultural Commodity Production, Processing and Trade
Seibel, Hans Dieter - 2003
This Conference brings together the financial experience of rural and agricultural microfinance institutions and the experience of the Common Fund and other agencies with promoting commodities and small and micro-entrepreneurs producing, processing and marketing commodities. We expect that this...
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History matters in microfinance
Seibel, Hans Dieter - 2003
Microfinance is not a recent development, and neither is the development of regulation and supervision of microfinance institutions (MFIs). Every now developed country has its own history of microfinance. It is important to recognize this because it presents a view different from that of many in...
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Microfinance In Laos: A Case for Women's Banking?
Seibel, Hans Dieter; Kunkel, Carmen R. - 1999
During the last ten years, the Government of The Lao PDR, a communist country, has taken bold steps towards a market economy, creating a policy environment for the emergence of a demand-driven system of microfinance. Such a system should be based on the cultural traditions of Laos where...
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Outreach and Sustainability of Rural Microfinance in Asia: Observations and Recommendations
Seibel, Hans Dieter - 1999
We in the community of microfinance specialists want to help alleviate poverty. We think microfinance is a useful tool. Yet, by bringing these two concerns together, we might be mixing up two diverging ends: one is poverty reduction; the other one the development of a healthy microfinance...
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Strategies for Developing Viable Microfinance Institutions with Sustainable Services: The Asian Experience
Seibel, Hans Dieter - 1999
In most developing countries, access to financial services by all segments of the population, including low-income people, is a matter of growing concern. Many governments have responded positively to this concern by embarking on financial system reform. They have attempted to match people?s...
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How Values Create Value: Social Capital in Microfinance - The Case of the Philippines
Seibel, Hans Dieter; Llanto, Gilbert; Quiñones, Benjamin - 2000
Values are to a society what character is to a person: it reveals his true inner self, yet is difficult to describe in exact terms. Moreover, a person's character may show in his actions in various, sometimes contradictory ways so that it may be difficult to induce a person's character from his...
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IFAD Rural Finance Policy
Seibel, Hans Dieter - 2000
Two thirds of the Fund?s current projects have a rural finance component; about 21% of the Fund?s resources are … dedicated to rural finance.2 Most of IFAD?s target group are small producers engaged in agric ultural and non … in rural finance. On that basis, operational guidelines and regional strategies will be prepared in due course for the …
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Rural Finance for the Poor: From Unsustainable Projects to Sustainable Institutions
Seibel, Hans Dieter - 2001
That has to be uppermost in our minds as we think about what microfinance means. For IFAD, the finance issue is crucial …
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