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May 16th, 2007 — Kiva, economy, good governance, kendall mau, latin america, microfinance, microfinancing, nicaragua, poverty, prisma from Ramon @ Ramon's Kiva Blog
It’s been a while. Work has been busy (my company was just bought by our largest competitor), and although I’ve been able to contribute various posts to KivaFriends, I haven’t been as active as I’d want to.Reading through Kendall’s reports on the state…
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Continue reading → Where the streets have no names and the poor have no chance
April 18th, 2007 — Kiva, esperanza international, google maps, kiva.org, latin america, loans, microfinance, microfinancing, poverty from Ramon @ Ramon's Kiva Blog
Following Pondering Pig’s example, I created a My Google Map (or a Google My-Map or whatever) for my investments. Here it is.Some other users Kiva Maps:Christopher from LondonFred from TexasPomerleau Family’s mapPondering Pig’s map (which we already me…
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Continue reading → All Kiva investments on one Google Map!
April 2nd, 2007 — economy, honduras, kiva.org, latin america, loans, microfinance, microfinancing, poverty, prisma from Ramon @ Ramon's Kiva Blog
Since it’s a new month, I just entered by bimonthly loan, my loan number 12. This one is to Dunia Herrera, why sells cloth in Choluteca, Honduras. Choluteca, in addition to having a cool name, looks on Google Maps just like the place I’d like to spend …
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Continue reading → Small loan to Dunia Herrera in Choluteca, Honduras
March 26th, 2007 — Kiva, economy, kiva.org, latin america, microfinance, microfinancing, nicaragua, poverty, prisma from Ramon @ Ramon's Kiva Blog
As I have described over and again, my believe is that in order for a micro-entrepreneur to be successful, the business (and thereby inferred–the micro-loan) needs to fulfill several objective and subjective criteria. If they don’t, then the loan is n…
Continue reading → Kiva and longer loan terms
March 15th, 2007 — Kiva, economy, ecuador, kiva.org, latin america, loans, microfinance, microfinancing, poverty from Ramon @ Ramon's Kiva Blog
One of the advantages of investing into a local opportunity through Kiva is, that you, consciously or subconsciously, keep better track of what is going on in those countries in which you invested. And therefore, when things are happening in Ecuador, i…
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Continue reading → Soon to be Republica Bolivariana de Ecuador?
March 2nd, 2007 — Kiva, economy, ecuador, latin america, loans, microfinancing, poverty from Ramon @ Ramon's Kiva Blog
I just invested my bimonthly installment of $25 into a cattle and rice farm called Hacienda la Maria, owned by Ivan Romero in Ecuador. What made this one stand apart from all others?First, I should say that I am overinvested in Ecuador. Initially, I th…
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February 11th, 2007 — latin america from Ramon @ Ramon's Kiva Blog
Today, we came back from PerĂº, with a ton of experiences, both Kiva related (trying to get Peruvian MFI’s involved) and family related. After unpacking and sorting laundry, I’ll post more in the coming days…Change the world one loan at a time - visi…
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Continue reading → Back… posting more soon!
January 22nd, 2007 — Kiva, latin america, loans, microfinancing from Ramon @ Ramon's Kiva Blog
Interestingly, my entrepreneurs in Ecuador appear to be paying back faster than the ones in Mexico. I guess to sample is too small to take any statistical conclusion…Change the world one loan at a time - visit Kiva.org to find out how.
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Continue reading → Repayment rates…
January 17th, 2007 — Kiva, latin america, loans, microfinancing from Ramon @ Ramon's Kiva Blog
We passed the 15th of the month a few days ago, and I have been frantically looking for a good Latin American business to invest in to fulfill my promise of “a new business every paycheck”. I need to diversify a little, as the only opportunities that a…
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