While microfinance has been a popular and successful tool in third world countries for more than four decades, the overt theme at the Microfinance USA 2010 conference in San Francisco is that domestic micro lending is an untapped, …
By David Roodman – I happened to hit the home page of FINCA, a signer of last month’s statement on the impacts of microfinance. Among the fly-down menus at the top is a phrase that caught my eye: client research. …
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.
By Steve Mbogo, Business Daily Africa — Insurance companies are cashing in on the low-end market as more Kenyans take covers. CIC Insurance is among.
Rebuilding Haiti with Microfinance. Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 at 6:00 am. Filed under: Uncategorized. Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more! Comments RSS Feed TrackBack URI. Leave a Reply …
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.
Kinshasa La micro finance fait son chemin There are many ways to evaluate microfinance products Pro Mujer participates in Clinton Global Initiative Revolutionary Thinkers Future interventions can be better tailored to the needs …
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 …
CGAP, the World Bank’s microfinance arm, turns 15 this year, having been formed ten years prior to Muhammad Yunus winning the Nobel Peace Prize. In commemoration, Alexis LaTortue, the CEO of CGAP, wrote a summary of the state of the …
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 …
