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MICROFRANCHISING
Microfranchising is a business model that attempts to adapt some of the traditional franchising concepts to small businesses in the developing world. It seeks to provide replicable business plans to small entrepreneurs in developing countries by using methodologies developed in the traditional franchising model. microfranchising attempts to follow in the footsteps of the microfinance and microcredit models in developing countries.
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Ipswitch, Inc.'s Network Management Division, developer of the WhatsUp Gold suite of innovative IT management...
For a few months, I've thought that microfinance was going to be in for a bit of rough patch when it comes to brand.
...is there a downside to microfinance?
I'd recently been pointing out that when P-CED leveraged $6 million for a microfinance bank in Tomsk Russia, a strong...
Building off of my colleague Sushmita's (who is a research associate on the Spandana study) thoughtful blog on...
When microfinance began, its scope was simple: Charitable, donor-driven organizations with a mission to eliminate...
The religious edict against fixed-income securities limits the use of conventional treasury instruments in Islamic...
Priscilla Wakefield, founder of the first savings bank in 1798, forgotten pioneer of financial service for the poor,...
The European Union/Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (EU/ACP) Microfinance Program is offering scholarships for ACP...
The nonprofit Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX) has released its April 2010 e-newsletter highlighting recent and...
Summary of Event: The summit is being held with the intent to spur development of Nigerian mobile telephony,...
How did the Otavaleños, Ecuador's most affluent indigenous group, become so successful? Did microfinance play a role in...
New York Times headline today: Big Banks Draw Big Profits From Microloans to Poor Average return on equity of the SYM50...
Advantage Capital Partners has committed an undisclosed amount of capital to Grameen America, a nonprofit microfinance...
Tibet Yurong Microcredit Company, a microcredit institution in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, was recently...
In previous posts I have explained how many business models in low-income markets tend to neglect important segments of...
U.S. financial institutions can both make money and help alleviate poverty in Africa and throughout the developing...
The first of the field trips by Milaap Microfunds.
After a joint examination exercise with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and a slew of complaints from depositors of...
A recent article on Livemint.com, an Indian business newspaper owned by the Wall Street Journal, pointed to the growing...
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the central bank of the Philippines, recently released its 2009 annual report...
By Meg Gray, KF10 Costa Rica There is one question that I have really come to hate during my time in Central America:...
International Finance Corporation (IFC), the lending arm of World Bank, is planning to invest around $15 million...
Top Sources: Microfranchising
- microfinance.cgap.org
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- MicroCapital
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- MicroCapital.org
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- Kiva Stories from the Field
- Kruse Kronicle
- The Next Women
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