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  • The Philippines to host the 2013 Microcredit Summit: Partnerships against Poverty

      Washington, D.C. - Today, the Microcredit Summit Campaign, a project of RESULTS Educational Fund, in partnership with the Microfinance Council of the Philippines, Inc.(MCPI), announced that the 2013 Partnerships agai...
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  • Launch event for Vulnerability: The State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report, 2013

      Join the Microcredit Summit Campaign launch event of Vulnerability: The State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report, 2013 onTuesday, February 5th from 3 to 5 PM at Busboys and Poets (14th & V St, NW) in ...
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  • Microfinance Institutions Reaching 3.8 Million Clients in India with Health Protection Services

    For further information:       Microcredit Summit Campaign       Sabina Rogers +1.202.637.9600       rogers@microcreditsummit.org Freedom from Hunger Ethan Veneklasen +1.530.758.6200 x ...
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  • Plenaries at Day Two of MCS Examine Challenges, Opportunities in Microfinance & Social Business

    VALLADOLID, SPAIN (Nov. 16) -- Day two of the Global Microcredit Summit 2011, Nov. 15, examined one of the central debates in microfinance: the challenges and solutions considered since the problems that occurred last year in the Indian state of A...
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  • Pathways out of Poverty for the Poorest: The 100 Million Project

      Can microfinance and enterprise development be part of the journey out of poverty for 100 million families? The Microcredit Summit Campaign has developed the 100 Million Project to galvanize energy around a global goal of ...
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  • Outcry over Government of Bangladesh Move to Nationalize Grameen Bank

              For further information:       Microcredit Summit Campaign       Sabina Rogers  +1.202.637.9600       rogers@microcreditsummit.org ...
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  • New Alliance to Benefit 3.7 Million of the World’s Poor by Combining Microfinance & Health

    WASHINGTON, DC (January 23) — The Microcredit Summit Campaign and Freedom from Hunger today announced that they have entered into a strategic alliance to reach more than 700,000 microfinance clients with health education and services over th...
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  • Closing Day of Plenaries at 2011 Global MCS Focuses on Agriculture, Energy & the “Last Mile”

    For more information: Dalia Palchik +1-303-748-6484 (USA) +34 91 307.67.30 (Spain) Palchik[at]microcreditsummit[dot]org Valladolid, Spain (Nov. 17) – In the closing day of workshops and plenaries at the Global Microcredit Summit ...
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  • Seal of Excellence will help the microfinance sector further its social mission

      VALLADOLID, SPAIN (Nov. 15) -- At the Global Microcredit Summit, the Global Advisory Committee for the Seal of Excellence assured attendees that the seal will help the microfinance sector to further its social endeavours. At th...
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  • Queen Sofía of Spain and Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus Open Global Microcredit Summit 2011

      VALLADOLID, SPAIN (Nov. 14) — The Queen of Spain joined Nobel Laureate and Grameen Bank Founder Muhammad Yunus, Spanish Secretary of State for Development Cooperation Soraya Rodriguez Ramos, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affair...
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  • 2,000 Poverty Fighters Expected to Join Queen of Spain for Global Microcredit Summit

    VALLADOLID, SPAIN – Nov. 14 – Today, some 2,000 poverty fighters from more than 100 countries will join the Queen of Spain, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus and Danone Chairman Franck Riboud in this historic Spanish city ...
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  • 137 Million of World’s Poorest Received a Microloan in 2010

      For more information: Dalia Palchik  +1-303-748-6484 (USA)  +34 91 307.67.30 (Spain) Palchik[at]microcreditsummit[dot]org VALLADOLID, SPAIN (Nov. 10) — More than 137.5 million of the world&rsqu...
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  • 45 Million Indians Move Above $1.25 A Day

      WASHINGTON, DC - According to a report released by the Microcredit Summit Campaign, a program of the US-based advocacy group RESULTS Educational Fund, nearly 9 million Indian households involved in microfinance - including approxim...
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  • Record 128 Million of World’s Poorest Received a Micro-Loan in 2009

      WASHINGTON, DC — More than 128 million of the world’s poorest families received a microloan in 2009—an all-time high, according to a reportreleased today by the Microcredit Summit Campaign. Assuming an averag...
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