The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation has strengthened its support for Laiterie du Berger, in which it holds 11.5% of the capital, with a new investment. The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation has strengthened its support, which it began in 2010, for Laiterie du Berger, in which it holds 11.5% of the capital, with a new investment in the form of a […]
At the end of December 2017, the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation recorded €64.1 million in commitments, including €57.5 million in financing to microfinance institutions and €4.8 million in investments in social business, an increase of €451 million over one year. In 2017, 44 financing applications were approved for a total amount of €49.3 million […]
Half of the world's economic wealth is held by 1% of the population. The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few continues to accelerate. This harsh and indecent observation calls into question a foundation of our economic and social beliefs: no, the law of the markets does not result in a naturally equitable balance […]
At the beginning of 2005, while in Senegal, 30% of families lived from livestock in rural areas whose population had incomes 19% lower than the country's poverty line (1.90$ per day according to 2015 data from the World Bank), the observation was that 90% of the milk consumed was reconstituted from milk […]
Matthieu Dardaillon and Jonas Guyot state it from the very first pages of their book: "The future belongs to those who do not give up." While still students at a prestigious business school, the two friends spent three years meeting social entrepreneurs, enlightened leaders and committed citizens who use their […]
Does microfinance still work? The theme of the 2017 edition of the Microfinance Barometer is undoubtedly provocative. This question assumes that microfinance has “worked” in the past and raises another question: worked in what sense, exactly? This question is not new. A lot of effort (and money) has been invested to […]
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation has granted a new three-year loan of €1.9 million to the Cambodian microfinance institution LOLC Cambodia. This loan is the fifth granted by the Foundation to this institution (formerly TPC), a partner since 2010. With this new loan, LOLC Cambodia, whose mission […]
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation has just granted a new loan to the Indonesian microfinance institution Komida, amounting to 2.1 million eruos over a period of three years. This loan is the fourth granted by the Foundation to Komida, a partner since 2011. With this new investment, the amount of the Foundation's commitments to […]
In Côte d'Ivoire, deposits in microfinance institutions (MFIs) have increased by 3,47% in 5 years, rising from 72 billion in 2012 to 250 billion FCFA at the end of September 2017, according to figures from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. This development was accompanied by an increase in outstanding credit on […]
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation has granted an initial loan in Indonesian rupiah equivalent to €840,000 over a three-year period to the microfinance institution KSP TLM. KSP TLM is a microfinance institution created in 2011 by the TLM Foundation to support local communities through initiatives […]
