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Interview: ‘Women are not complaining or sitting idly’
Chin human rights activist Cheery Zahau speaks to DVB about what is needed to empower women in the workforce.
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USAID to help finance Burma’s ‘missing middle’
A new microfinance programme backed by the US government’s foreign aid agency USAID aims to promote the growth of medium-sized businesses in Burma.
Thai leasing company buys majority stake in Burmese microlender
Thai leasing company GL is acquiring a 71.9 percent stake in BG Microfinance Myanmar, with plans to expand its lending portfolio from US$1 million to $40 million in 2017.
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Rural Arakan to receive $10 million under micro-finance scheme
The loan, to be distributed through the Mya Sein Yaung micro-finance scheme, will be used to support businesses and livelihoods in 401 villages.
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World Bank Blundering through Burma
The World Bank is revealing how little it knows—or is willing to admit—about Burma’s agricultural sector, writes Rachel Wagley of US Campaign for Burma.
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Chinese NGO aims to tackle poverty in Burma through microloans
A Chinese NGO is set to implement micro-finance programs across Burma in a bid to tackle rural poverty.
Thein Sein vows to curb poverty
Burmese President Thein Sein pledged on Sunday to tackle chronic poverty in the long-isolated nation, whose economy was left in tatters by decades of harsh junta rule
Business owners call out authorities over loan programme
Small business owners in Magwe division’s Gangaw township have expressed disappointment with municipal authorities who have not provided them the anti-poverty loans that they applied for more than year ago
UK says microfinance key to Burma’s growth
Aid package will allocate £10 million to establishing microfinance schemes in the border regions that UK says will see quick results
Hague rewards Burma thaw with aid boost
British Foreign Secretary arrives today with pledge for aid to Kachin refugees and to boost microfinance initiatives to Burma’s poor
Microfinance plan met with caution
Mooted scheme at mercy of endemic corruption and absence of conditions conducive to effective management
