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The Mobile Mexican Magnate: How Carlos Slim Helu Got His Start
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| He has been called the Warren Buffett of Latin America, but on the most recent Forbes list of the world’s richest people, the Mexican born Carlos Slim Helu bumped the great American investor down to third spot. With an estimated net worth of $53 billion, Helu is now the second richest person in the world, and just $3 billion behind Bill Gates. He is known for never cracking a smile, but Helu’s current monopoly over the telecommunications industry in Mexico must surely make him one happy businessman. With his hands now in all of the retail, banking and insurance, technology, and auto parts manufacturing industries, Helu shows no signs of slowing down. |
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| The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) can guarantee bonds for contracts up to $2 million, covering bid, performance and payment bonds for small and emerging contractors who cannot obtain surety bonds through regular commercial channels. SBA's guarantee gives sureties an incentive to provide bonding for eligible contractors, and thereby strengthens a contractor's ability to obtain bonding and greater access to contracting opportunities. A surety guarantee, an agreement between a surety and the SBA, provides that SBA will assume a predetermined percentage of loss in the event the contractor should breach the terms of the contract. |
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Savings Mobilisation: Tenets of Micro-credit for Poverty Reduction
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| One of the more common requirements of most MFIs is to encourage savings amongst the clients
so that they develop an attitude of savings first and borrowing on that amount, and also to empower
them, in the long term, to be independent of borrowing from external sources. |
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Ugandan Government to Set up Laws for Regulating its Microfinance Sector
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| During the 2007 Citigroup Micro-entrepreneurship awards ceremony in Kampala on January 10, 2008, State Minister for Microfinance, Caleb Akandwanaho announced that a new law regulating the activities of microfinance institutions will take effect in June 2008.
The law is meant to bring an end to corruption in Uganda’s savings and co-operative organizations (SACCOs) following dozens of complaints from customers claiming to have been fleeced of their savings, and police investigations in September 2007 of four savings and co-operative organizations (SACCOs) suspected of fraud, including the suspension of The Support Uganda Savings and Cooperative Society, and arrests of SACCO heads. |
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Save Money On Your Taxes By Working From Home
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| You know that working from home can be satisfying but did you know that it could also save you money? Beyond the obvious savings like commuting costs, clothing and such you can also take considerable savings on your income taxes. |
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Are there 80,000 reasons that Alcock borrowed a page from Gershon?
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| “In what has been described as the most significant restructuring of public services for a generation, the rest of the $21 billion (in savings) will have to come from overall efficiency gains such as improving the procurement system, and streamlining areas such as information technology and human resources. That’s why the skeptics are skeptical.”
In case some of you are wondering if I am just repeating what I had written in Saturday’s post regarding Reg Alcock’s statement “that the “federal government is on the verge of launching the biggest transformation in the way government is managed in its history,” the above comment was made during a July 22, 2004 BBC interview with Sir Peter Gershon.
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Factors That Influence Variable and Fixed Canadian Mortgage Rates
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| The cost of government bonds and their yield is among the major factors that influence variable and fixed Canadian mortgage rates. Bonds are actually a safe way of investing than stocks. When there is an irregular economy, the investors will benefit from the government bonds. When the market bull is going up, investors normally make a great gain. |
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Health Insurance Policies And Health Savings Accounts
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| With Health Insurance Policies becoming more and more expensive, people are beginning to look into other, less traditional options. One of the more viable of these options is called Health Savings Account, or HSA. Many companies are actually turning to Health Savings Accounts for their employees. HSA’s are quite simple. It is simply a savings account in which you, or your employer, deposits money into, just like any personal savings account you would open with a bank. However, you can only make annual deposits, and, unfortunately for some, there are actually limits on the amount you can deposit each year. The annual maximum for an individual account is $3,050, and the maximum for a family is $6,150.
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What is a Coverdell Education Savings Account?
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| Everyone wants to be able to save money for their child’s education. A Coverdell Education Savings Account is a tax advantaged savings account that empowers your efforts, making more of your hard earned savings for your child’s education. Read on to learn more about a Coverdell Education Savings Account. |
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Different Types of Bonds
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| Investing in bonds is very safe, and the returns are usually very good. There are four basic types of bonds available and they are sold through the Government, through corporations, state and local governments, and foreign governments. |
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If Business Ran Like the Government
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| The big news these days is the federal government’s debt ceiling. Every time Washington gets into one of these messes - which it does a lot - people renew the discussion about how government should be run. “If I ran my company the way they run the government…” The outcome is usually bankruptcy or prison. Should government be run like a business? That’s a debate for another article. But, the surprising thing is many business ARE run like the government. Do you understand how to manage cash flow in your business? Does your company cater to special interests, waste money or time or push problems aside instead of addressing the real issue? |
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