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What We’re Reading: Top 10 Blogs About Microfinance & Poverty Eradication
Blogs are a great way to hear a variety of voices and experience an issue from diverse perspectives and if you’re interested in microfinance and global development there are a variety of sites full of information, opinions, and more. These blogs, like our Opportunity Blog, are fun ways to learn more about the voices and Read more…
Tagged Accion, Asia, banking with the poor network, Blog, Blogging, Blogs, Center for Financial Inclusion, CGAP, Community, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, Defeat Poverty, Financial services, global development, Global Poverty, Grameen Foundation, India, India Microfinance, MFI, Microfinance, MicroFinance Transparency, Mykro, Nicholas D. Kristof, Opportunity Blog, Opportunity International, Poverty, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal
Illinois Congressman Rep. Peter Roskam Visits Opportunity’s Oak Brook Offices, Following a Visit to Ghana
This past Wednesday, June 8, U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam (IL-6th) stopped by Opportunity’s Oak Brook, Ill. offices to learn more about our work. During his visit, he toured the office, met many members of our US staff, and had a meeting with a few members of our senior staff, including Opportunity CEO Bill Morgenstern, Senior Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Bill Morgenstern, Community, Congress, Dennis Ripley, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Ghana, global development, Global Poverty, Insurance, Legislation, Loan Officer, Loans, Malawi, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Poverty, Rep. Peter Roskam, Savings, Simona Haiduc, sub-Saharan Africa, Training
ONE Blog: “Creating Jobs for Africans: An interview with Ambassador Marantis”
The following interview of Ambassador Demetrios Marantis, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, conducted by the ONE Campaign‘s Malaka Gharib, was originally published on the ONE Blog on Monday, June 6, 2011. I had the huge honor of interviewing Ambassador Demetrios Marantis for our Trade = Development blog series. He plays a leading role in enforcing the Read more…
Tagged Africa, Ambassador, Business, business leaders, Congress, Development, Ending Poverty, global development, Global Poverty, global trade, Legislation, ONE, ONE blog, ONE Campaign, Poverty, Poverty in Africa, President Obama, sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Ambassador, Women, Zambia
