Linda Young – AHN News Writer London, United Kingdom (AHN) – The European Central Bank chose to leave its key interest rate unchanged at 1 percent over concerns about the lingering sovereign debt crisis. ECB officials held their monthly meeting a day early because of the Easter holiday and chose not to roll back the [...]
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European Central Bank keeps low benchmark interest rate
April 5th, 2012 
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April 3rd, 2012 davidguide The Media Line Staff Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (The Media Line) – When Reem Muhammad sought a personal loan to pay off some lingering debts, a Saudi bank offered 100,000 riyals ($26,667). The price tag? Repayment of the loan, plus 33,000 riyals. “I took the loan and repaid it, but I never knew what the 33,000 [...]
Posted in Personal Loans Tags: credit card debt, economy, high net worth individuals, interest, Media, mortgage law, plastic money, property loans, saudi bank, saudi economy Comments OffWhile White House Emphasizes Easing Student Debt Burden, Fed Contractors Play Hardball with debtors
March 30th, 2012 davidguide ProPublica Staff Washington, DC, United States (ProPublica) – by Marian Wang It was with some fanfare that the Obama administration announced last fall that it was ramping up a program to help students with federal loans reduce their monthly payments. Under the program, payments are adjusted based on how much students earn — what’s known [...]
Posted in Personal Loans Tags: debt collection agencies, Department, department contracts, department spokesman, education, federal loans, federal student loan, loan rules, student borrowers, Student Loan Comments OffLandmines hurting farmers’ livelihoods in Democratic Republic of Congo
March 28th, 2012 davidguide Kabalo, Dr Congo (IRIN) – Landmines planted about a decade ago in parts of Kabalo territory in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) southeastern Katanga Province are adversely affecting farming livelihoods, and an important World Food Program (WFP) project. “In our area, there are villages where we get much harvest but the road leading to [...]
Posted in Personal Loans Tags: area, DRC, eastern kasai, irrigation ditches, katanga province, maize, north kivu, rwandan army, western kasai, world food program Comments OffWill pressure make Chinese aid more transparent?
March 27th, 2012 davidguide London (IRIN) – Critics have long characterized China as a secretive donor in economically poor but resource-rich countries, funding infrastructure construction in an unspoken bid for business deals and access to natural wealth and land. While China disburses aid with a scant paper trail, analysts say strong-arming its government to boost transparency – and aid [...]
Posted in Personal Loans Tags: burmese government, china power, government development, information, infrastructure construction, kampot province, natural wealth, NGOs, transparency, world bank loans Comments OffObama nominates health care expert to head World Bank
March 24th, 2012 davidguide Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – President Barack Obama on Friday nominated Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank. Kim is a public health expert and advocate. He was an unexpected choice to lead the global financial institution and was not among the names publicly [...]
Posted in Personal Loans Tags: AHN, Choice, Expert, global financial institution, global public health, jim yong kim, low interest loans, member executive board, public health expert, robert zoellick Comments OffMicrofinance – possibilities and limitations
March 14th, 2012 davidguide London, United Kingdom (IRIN) – The scope of microfinance to lift poor people out of poverty and provide mechanisms of empowerment is being challenged as questions are raised about the supporting evidence. In a discussion hosted by the UK’s Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the academic evidence was concluded to be unclear, unreliable and inconclusive. “[There [...]
Posted in Personal Loans Tags: Duvendack, financial literacy, micro enterprise, micro enterprises, microcredit, microfinance, portfolio products, poverty, poverty reduction, small and medium enterprises Comments OffEuropean Central Bank leaves key interest rate unchanged
March 9th, 2012 davidguide Linda Young – AHN News Writer London, United Kingdom (AHN) – European Central Bank (ECB) officials left the benchmark interest rate of 1 percent unchanged. The bank has not changed the rate since November. The ECB has provided European banks with hundreds of billions of dollars worth of loan-interest loans in an effort to keep [...]
Posted in Personal Loans Tags: AHN, benchmark interest rate, european banks, government bonds, mario draghi, Percent, rate, risk environment, target rate, term target Comments OffThousands of refugees miss out on UNHCR living allowance
March 7th, 2012 davidguide Cairo, Egypt (IRIN) – Thousands of registered refugees in Cairo are no longer receiving a monthly US$33-66 per person living allowance from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) after Caritas, one of UNHCR’s service providers in Egypt, closed its office on 7 February. Caritas, which assists UNHCR with the payment of allowances and health services, was [...]
Posted in Personal Loans Tags: cairo egypt, egypt human rights, food banks, Ministry, Morayef, NGOs, ngos in egypt, refugee agency, riot police, social solidarity Comments OffDubai is back – or not
March 6th, 2012 davidguide The Media Line Staff Dubai, United Arab Emirates David Rosenberg (The Medi – Is Dubai back? That’s the question economists and government officials ask about once every six months, only to be disappointed. But this time, at least, the stock market seems to be answering yes. Dubai’s shares have rallied 30 percent so far this [...]
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