Official website for Microfinance USA Conference 2010.
“Over the last thirty years or so, microfinance has risen to become one of the most high-profile policies to address poverty and under-development in developing and transition countries. It is beloved of rock stars, royalty, …
By Bryan Stubbs While not perfect, microfinance and Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) have been shown to be an effective tool in aiding mircoenterprises throughout third world communities. The positive impact they have on alleviating …
Microfinance Focus: Sitting at the counter of his restaurant located in the heart of Jalabad, 56 year-old Mr. Sayed Burhan-u-Din is busy counting money from one of his departing customers. Thank God, my customers are increasing day by …
Recently, ACCION USA’s Microfinance Council authored a guest post on the Woodstock Institute Blog. In it, the microfinance volunteer and advocacy group explored the ongoing debate between interest rates and sustainability:
There are 800 million rural subsistence farmers around the world and each one of them are relying on their land for survival. Many farmers have to use slash and burn agriculture to create more land to plant cash crops or clear cut …
I am a Kiva fellow working with Urwego Opportunity Bank (UOB), a microfinance bank that has branches spread over the country with over 200 Rwandan staff of various backgrounds. For any group to function well, they must be able to work …
Like M-PESA itself, PEP began with microfinance, in 2004. But when M-PESA came along in 2007, Frederik and the other founder, Paul Otieno, seized the business opportunity. To launch M-PESA, Safaricom needed to quickly build a national …
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.
Some of the best work that microfinance can do is in post-conflict regions, particularly those with internally displaced persons (IDPs). These people may have been forcibly relocated from their homes and made to stay in makeshift camps …
