MIGRATION-PORTUGAL:    Starting a New Life With Microcredit
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LISBON, Dec 7 (IPS) - Starting one's own business on borrowed money  is no easy task in Portugal for an unemployed or retired person,  or one lacking advanced professional qualifications, even if the  loan is small and payable in instalments.
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Broadband mass migration to Telefonica UK
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Helping the "underbanked" pays off. So does diversity.
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Many large companies have reaped the economic benefits of outsourcing in recent years. Karim Morsli is trying to make money bringing those same advantages to small and medium-sized businesses -- while also spurring economic growth in Africa.
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These days, capital and goods cross borders with ease. Lant Pritchett says that if the developing worldâs workers could do the same, everyone would benefit.
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At the start of the 20th century, a wave of European immigrants crossed the Atlantic Ocean, seeking a better life in the land of opportunity.
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Mamadou Faye is a goat herder in Senegal.  We've never met, probably never will.  For the last year I've watched each month for an update on his business.  Each month I waited for news on how his venture progressed. This business partnership wasn't forged in the humid lowlands of Senegal, I did it from my laptop, in my own home.  We met through Kiva.   With $25, a paypal account, and a desire to do some good Kiva connected me to this man in Senegal and in doing so revealed the power of small.
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By Rozana Sani  INDIVIDUALS and enterpri
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Developing countries are starting to flex their financial muscles and invest overseas.
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Ebay launches a new web site that allows people to invest in loans that lift people out of poverty.
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'One is not advocating that you have to necessarily come back to the country to repay what it has done for you. But give your country a thought.' Ashutosh Gowariker discusses Swades.
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MOSCOW, Aug 28 (IPS) - In the big expansion plans for the economy,  financial institutions are neglecting the microfinance that small  and medium business enterprises need, experts say.
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MADRID, Sep 21 (IPS) - Supporting the private sector in Africa, as Spanish  businesses agreed to do this week, and combating people  trafficking mafias is the way to promote development and prevent  brain drain from African countries.
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Microlenders have been helping farmers buy a buffalo and women set up weaving businesses for nearly three decades in India, most successfully in the wealthier southern states.
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When Mission Foods, which makes Mexican tortillas and chips, wanted to build a factory in the Northeast, it chose Pennsylvania. One reason: an ultra-low-cost loan from Citizens Bank. As a condition of the loan, the company pledged to add about 230 jobs.
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Things are looking up for once-beleaguered MicroStrategy.
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LISBON, Jun 18 (IPS) - The small West African island nation of Cape Verde,  which was uninhabited when Portuguese navigators discovered it in  1460, now has more citizens living abroad than at home. And  growing numbers of women are joining the diaspora.