A newly arrived Vittana Fellow looks forward to the next 9 months in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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Our intrepid team of International Partnerships Managers is starting off 2011 by spending a cumulative 82 days in the field. They’ll be visiting 11 countries and meeting with more than 55 microfinance organizations, banks and universities in our quest to continue bringing student lending to the developing world. Together, they’ll [...]
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Today the Economist gave education loans the nod as “the next big thing in microfinance.” And while usually we’d get a little sheepish about claiming to be involved in a “hotbed” of anything, if the Economist calls “finding new ways to fund poor students” a “hotbed of innovation,” then that’s [...]
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Ulaanbaatar is cold. Home to XacBank, an early Vittana partner and MIX Global top 100 microfinance institution (MFI), Mongolia’s capital city topped out at 10 below zero during my visit two weeks ago. As I walked from my hotel to the XacBank office for the first time, my breath short [...]
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