The Local Knowledge Bank / JIPS / Grameen Bank / National Bank of Economic / As Banco Palmas / Practice Banco Palmas / Banco Palmas / Bank of Brazil / Social Development / First Community Bank / Federal Savings Bank / Um Banco Comunitario / Community Bank / /
Country
Bangladesh / United States / Brazil / /
Currency
BRL / USD / /
Event
Product Release / Funding / Business Partnership / /
IndustryTerm
community development bank / sewage systems / basic infrastructure / community-driven finance institutions / consumption networks / community development bank model / healthcare / finance mechanism / durable solutions / community development banks / bank / electricity supplies / social networks / finance model / basic services / electricity networks / /
Movie
Ashoka / Home sweet home / /
Organization
Ministry of Labour / Cordaid Context Residents / Oxfam / German Development Agency / Instituto Palmas / GTZ / Department of the Treasury / Association of Dwellers / civil society / National government / Brazil’s government / Cordaid / Solidarity Economy Centre / Brazilian government / /
Person
Joaquim de Melo Neto / Joaquim de Melo / Juliana de Oliveira Barros / Oliveira Barros Braz / Carolina Teixeira Nakagawa / Muhammad Yunus / Thais Silva Mascarenhas / Augusto Câmara Neiva / Paul Singer / /
Position
Singer / the national secretary of the solidarity economy / social entrepreneur / representative / national secretary of the solidarity economy / /
Product
a credit card / the PalmaCard.9 Brazil / PalmaCard.9 Brazil / /
Description Community development banks (CDBs) aim to generate economic development in low to middle-income areas. They have been widely used in the US, where they have long been institutionalised and the Treasury Depart