Posts Tagged ‘obama’

Microfinance Focus, Oct. 1, 2009: Swiss fund manager BlueOrchard Finance has been chosen to manage the US-backed fund Microfinance Growth Facility (MIGROF) worth US$250 million, which was created recently to support the growth of MFIs to refinance their lending activities to people with no access to main banks. Full story

By Sam Daley-Harris Microfinance Focus, Aug. 4, 2009: When President Obama presents the Medal of Freedom to 16 distinguished American and international “agents of change” at a White House ceremony on August 12, one of the honorees will link Mr. Obama to both his past and to the future he is so committed to creating. Among the 16 ... Full story