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How Innovation Can Help Frontier Markets

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The frontier market is a term coined by the International Finance Corporation’s Frida Khambata in 1992. Some countries known as frontier markets are Argentina, Lebanon, Vietnam, Nigeria, Oman, Bahrain, and Bangladesh. This means that these are countries with a lot of potentials but are also too risky for investors to give attention to.

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10 Amazing Microfinance Success Stories

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The benefits of microfinance have been debated since the ’70s when the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh began making tiny loans to impoverished small business owners. SHARE Micro Finance Limited, India. After five years of being turned down by lenders, she approached the Kenya Women Finance Trust for a $680 loan.

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Financial Literacy Across Asia Declining: Mastercard

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Financial services provider MasterCard has announced the results of its MasterCard Financial Literacy Index, which revealed that progress towards improving basic finance knowledge and skills across Asia Pacific has stalled as 12 of 16 countries record lower scores in financial literacy.

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A Newbie’s Guide To Microfinancing

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Microfinancing, a type of financial service designed for people with little in the way of capital or collateral, is offering a way for poor people to finance their businesses and lift themselves out of poverty. But some critics believe microfinancing takes advantage of the very people it purports to assist.

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

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13, 2006: This distinguished Nobel Peace Prize recipient pioneered the use of microcredits through the Grameen Bank, which he established in his native Bangladesh in 1983; many for-profit and nonprofit ventures these days utilize the same concept when investing in underprivileged regions.

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How a startup should leverage a personal assistant

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

India, Bangladesh or other countries do not have quality VA's, but the Filipinos learn English in school, do not tend to be entrepreneurial (thus are less likely to steal ideas), and are culturally service-oriented. Tags: How-To finance productivity tools. Step1: Finding a VA. I've had the best results hiring VA's in the Philippines.

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And Then They Came for Me …

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You don’t get to call for a religious test to enter our country, potentially denying access to more than 1 billion Muslim people in the world including very large populations in Indonesia, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. We are the global cabal who control finance, media and governments in the eyes of the conspiracy theorists.