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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a onetime, Balbir Mathur, Co-Founder, Trees for Life says… “My friends, you have in front of you someone who had had the undeserved privilege of having gone through education exclusively as the result of a statistical error. I went to college in San Francisco, I did two master’s degrees at Stanford, I completed a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikrobanker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6024586&amp;post=99&amp;subd=mikrobanker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Money Lender is Rentenir, Lintah Darat, Bank Pelecit etc</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been back from a four months trip to Indonesia for a field research. My trip was mainly visiting local Islamic microfinance institutions and wet-market in Yogyakarta where those institutions work by proving financial services to traders, microenterprises and low-income inhabitants. One phenomena reveals in the field was the strong presence of money lender or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikrobanker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6024586&amp;post=88&amp;subd=mikrobanker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Embracing the Islamic Community-Based Microfinance for Poverty Alleviation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chronic poverty and economic inequality are the most challenging issues of human civilization and development, hence the Islam tenets regards poverty alleviation is one of the most important duties, and the God orders every Muslim to combat poverty and help poor and the needy through charities mainly in forms of zakat as well as infaq, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikrobanker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6024586&amp;post=72&amp;subd=mikrobanker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will Mobile Banking Work for Microfinance?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mobile banking (M-Banking) has been popular among bank customers since it provides huge advantages, one of those is flexibility in managing banking needs which with no constraint on place and time. Through M-banking, a customer is able to conduct banking transactions and financial inquiries anytime and anywhere. In this context, M-Banking is a part of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikrobanker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6024586&amp;post=59&amp;subd=mikrobanker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apa, Mengapa dan Siapa Microfinance?</title>
		<link>http://mikrobanker.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/apa-mengapa-dan-siapa-microfinance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microfinance merupakan salah industri keuangan baru yang tumbuh pesat dalam kurun waktu satu dekade terakhir. Pada awalnya di era tahun 1960-an, microfinance termasuk bagian dari program pembangunan yang menyalurkan kredit bersubsidi untuk menunjang pembangunan pertanian, penanggulangan kelaparan dan kemiskinan di wilayah pedesaan khususnya di negara-negara berkembang. Kini microfinance telah menjadi suatu sistem intermediasi keuangan yang [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikrobanker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6024586&amp;post=48&amp;subd=mikrobanker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Can Microfinance Share the Poverty Eradication?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[17 October 2008 was the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty or World Poverty Day that donor organizations and anti-poverty supporters around the world shared empathy for people who are struggling in their daily lives in the midst of the massive financial turndown across the nations. The crisis has been a great concern and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikrobanker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6024586&amp;post=43&amp;subd=mikrobanker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leading Microfinance into Microbanking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the recent years we have witnessed the flourishing of microfinance around the globe after the United Nation launching the International Year of Microcredit 2005 and the latest momentous was when Professor Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank and the pioneer of microcredit for women is awarded a Peace Nobel Prize. Microfinance has been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikrobanker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6024586&amp;post=40&amp;subd=mikrobanker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mencari Orang Miskin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ketika pemerintah menaikan harga BBM bersubsidi, wacana dan debat tentang kemiskinan menjadi hangat kembali dan melibatkan banyak pakar dan pengamat. Dari berbagai artikel yang penulis baca, ada dua issue penting yang berkembang yaitu: Pertama, kalangan yang berpendapat bahwa kebijakan pemerintah menaikan BBM yang berdampak multi dimensi akan meningkatkan jumlah penduduk miskin di tanah air karena [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikrobanker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6024586&amp;post=31&amp;subd=mikrobanker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Politisasi Kredit Usaha Rakyat?</title>
		<link>http://mikrobanker.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/awas-politisasi-kredit-usaha-rakyat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bulan Nopember 2007, presiden Susilo Bambang Yudoyono meluncurkan Kredit Usaha Rakyat (KUR) yang merupakan implementasi dari Instruksi Presiden No. 6 Tahun 2007 tanggal 8 Juni 2007 tentang Kebijakan Percepatan Pengembangan Sektor Riil dan Pemberdayaan UMKM dan Nota Kesepahaman Bersama antara Pemerintah, Perbankan dan Perusahaan Penjaminan pada tanggal 9 Oktober 2007. Pemerintah menujuk 6 bank pelaksana [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikrobanker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6024586&amp;post=14&amp;subd=mikrobanker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Walau miskin namun tetap tersenyum</media:title>
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		<title>Problems and Challanges of Micro-Small Financing</title>
		<link>http://mikrobanker.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/problems-and-challanges-of-micro-small-financing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mikrobanker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discussing about the role of micro &#38; small enterprises (MSE) is always interesting and oftentimes invites a significant public concern, the economist, politicians, policy makers, as well as the silent observers particularly during the General Election season (PEMILU). The reason behind the phenomenon is that MSE has been regarded as a backbone of the economy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikrobanker.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6024586&amp;post=6&amp;subd=mikrobanker&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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