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Microfinance — making tiny loans to poor people or groups of poor people — has soared in India in the past few years. Before long, it could reach more people in India than the regular banking system.
Private equity investments have put a premium on the valuation of microfinance companies when maybe they should be giving them a discount.
Microfinance Focus, June 24, 2010: A rapid increase in global commercial investments in microfinance has also surfaced an array of associated risks for.
Islam Poverty and Microfinance Islam Poverty and Microfinance Microfinance has been talk of the town since last decade or so. Islamic.
Microfinance Focus , June 23, 2010 ( New Delhi) : ‘Microfinance Cracking the Capital Markets, South Asia 2010′, The conference on Microfinance.
Moderate results are disappointing if you were expecting microfinance to cure poverty. But they are just what you’d expect if you think microfinance is about bringing financial services to people who never had them before.
The Rural Bankers’ Association of the Philippines (RBAP) said the central bank has approved an increase in the ceiling of its housing micro finance loan product. Joseph Omar Andaya, RBAP president, said the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas …
Microfinance programmes have been promoted as a key strategy for poverty reduction in Sierra Leone. Microfinance services for the poor have rapidly expanded in many communities, promoted in particular by initiatives of the government, …
Microfinance Focus, June 24, 2010: Concluding the Microfinance Cracking the Capital Market Conference in New Delhi, its organizers briefed the audience about.
