By Terry Provance, Executive Director, Oikocredit USA When Mohammad Yunus received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for creating the Grameen Microcredit Bank in Bangladesh he stated, Poverty is the absence of all human rights.
The Economics of Microfinance: New edition coming this month When our book The Economics of Microfinance MIT Press came out in 2005 we got some pretty great feedback. Nobel Laureates were among its fans Joseph Stiglitz.
World Vision is launching a microfinance site that allows donors to lend directly to small borrowers in developing nations.
Deputy Governor of State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Kamran Shahzad said that microfinance facility would be provided to 30 million people to eradicate poverty and unemployment. He said this at the opening ceremony of first micro credit …
The newly commissioned ABUCOOP Microfinance Bank has granted N14.8 million loans to nine customers in the last two week, the Managing Director of the Bank Shedds Obi Okoronkwo has said. Speaking yesterday at the official commission of …
Gudrun Kopp, Parliamentary Secretary of State at Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), said: This innovative fund for the first time provides microfinance institutions across sub-Saharan Africa with …
The Credit Suisse Microfinance Advocates Network is an employee global network with the mission to promote microfinance to the rest of the bank. It is our goal to educate employees on current issues faced by the microfinance industry …
When our book, The Economics of Microfinance (MIT Press), came out in 2005 we got some pretty great feedback. Nobel Laureates were among its fans Joseph Stiglitz said the book brims with new evidence and provides fresh perspectives, …
Unitus Convenes Microfinance, Business and Philanthropic Leaders Ageing Populations Face Crisis of Rising Blindness ReadyTalk Offers Colorado Companies a 50% Discount on Audio Conferencing. ReadyTalk, a leader in integrated audio and …
Today, microfinance has slowly developed to be a worldwide movement. Microfinance refers to the supply of financial services to the poor to improve their financial condition. Oftentimes, the word microfinance is used interchangeably …
