UNITED NATIONS CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT FUND    Microfinance

Issue 6 / October 2004

Spotlight

Update on the International Year of Microcredit 2005

Featured Guest

Q & A with Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder and Chair of BRAC and Advisor to the Year

News

Microfinance in focus

Voices of Microfinance

Responses to a question posed to experts and practitioners.

Upcoming Events

Conferences, events and trainings.

Links

New websites and publications.

Share your news!

If you have a current news story or know of an upcoming event that would be of interest to the network, please email the Editor, Emily Krasnor.

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   Featured Guest: Fazle Hasan Abed

Q & A with Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder and Chairperson of BRAC and Advisor to the International Year of Microcredit 2005 ... [continue]

   First Microcredit Summit in the Middle East-Africa Region Takes Place in Jordan

SG Calls for the Integration of Microfinance into the Formal Financial Sector... [continue]

   What Type Of Access Do Poor and Low-Income People Have to Financial Services?

Workshop Addresses Data Gaps that Limit Access ... [continue]

   Interview with Producer Sterling Van Wagenen on His New Film “Small Fortunes: Microcredit and the Future of Poverty”

Premiere to Be Featured at Launch of the Year at UN Headquarters ... [continue]

   Book Review

The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits -- by C.K. Prahalad ... [continue]

   Queen Rania Al Abdullah to Serve as Emissary for the International Year of MIcrocredit 2005

Continues Her Dedication to Poor Women in the Middle East ...[continue]

   Why Are So Many Bankable Clients Unbanked?

Blue Book Dialogues Launched in Amman ...[continue]

   ING Netherlands Becomes Core Sponsor of the International Year of Microcredit

Introduces ING 'Microfinance Support Programme' for Employees ...[continue]

   Advisors Group for International Year of Microcredit Meets in New York

Citigroup Holds Reception to Welcome Advisors and Herald the Success of the Year...[continue]