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Hero takes a bite out of US baby-food market

This content was published on Oct 10, 2005 If the US competition authorities approve the deal, Hero’s revenue from infant nutrition will double. Beech-Nut has a 15-per-cent market share in the US. Its product portfolio counts around 180 articles. The company is based in St Louis, Missouri. It was owned by Swiss food giant Nestlé between 1979 and 1987. No details on the…

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United Nations’ Year of Microcredit

This content was published on Oct 10, 2005 To mark the year, swissinfo went to India to look at Swiss involvement in this field. And it’s not just people in developing countries who are using microfinance to step over the poverty line.

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Swiss lend India microfinance know-how

This content was published on Oct 10, 2005 The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation has been active in India for more than 40 years and partners three local organisations bringing financial services to the poorest of the poor. Microcredit refers to a small loan, the likes of which have helped would-be entrepreneurs set up businesses in mostly developing countries. It is estimated…

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Small loans fund big dreams

This content was published on Oct 10, 2005 Thanks to a Lausanne-based foundation, would-be entrepreneurs who have been turned away by mainstream banks are being thrown a lifeline. The term “microcredit” refers to a small amount of credit loaned to a microentrepreneur often without collateral. In the developing world this system of loans has benefited the very poor, enabling them to become self-employed.…

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Switzerland jumps on microfinance bandwagon

This content was published on Oct 10, 2005 Given the unreliability of foreign aid budgets, MFIs, which provide loans to low-income clients, are asking businesses to throw them a credit line by offering a secure source of funding. The extra funds would allow these mostly charitable organisations to boost their infrastructure and finance their loan portfolios for the estimated 500 million so-called microentrepreneurs…

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Indian NGOs uncertain how to reach the poor

This content was published on Oct 10, 2005 However, swissinfo’s Faryal Mirza found there is dissent among the ranks about how credit should be delivered to those who need it. Rebecca Katticaren is a programme officer with the Swiss non-governmental organisation, Intercooperation, which supervises a number of the SDC’s partners in India. She was sceptical that Basix, the for-profit microfinance institution, is actually…

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Credit offers India’s poor “clean” start

This content was published on Oct 10, 2005 swissinfo visited two women’s groups in Andhra Pradesh. One has claimed success with its own line of paper cups, while the other has made a clean start with washing powder. We are accompanied on the four-hour drive from Hyderabad to Khammam district by Jayaram and Subhasini, managers of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural…

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Microcredit changes lives in India

This content was published on Oct 10, 2005 swissinfo’s Faryal Mirza went to the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to meet families whose lives have been changed by Basix, a Swiss-backed organisation. The drive along Highway 9 is smooth with tufted hills lining the view and terracotta boulders showing through the vegetation. As we drive to Nalgonda district, we see children dressed in…

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Swiss lend India microfinance know-how

This content was published on Oct 10, 2005 The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation has been active in India for more than 40 years and partners three local organisations bringing financial services to the poorest of the poor. Microcredit refers to a small loan, the likes of which have helped would-be entrepreneurs set up businesses in mostly developing countries. It is estimated…

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