Microfinance institutions have to make sure their peers behave to protect the positive image of the industry and ensure that the government doesn’t feel it has to create more rules to regulate their expansion.
Microfinance Focus, June 24, 2010: A rapid increase in global commercial investments in microfinance has also surfaced an array of associated risks for.
Microfinance, the practice of making small loans to farmers or business owners too poor to provide collateral, has grown successfully in recent years, particularly in Third World countries with less of a manufacturing base, …
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.
BWTP Network Program Manager Jamie Bedson was invited to a meeting of the Lao Microfinance Working Group (MFWG) to launch ‘Lao PDR Microfinance Industry Report’ in Vientiane, 18th June 2010. The MFWG (profiled in last month’s …
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.
Microfinance Social Development Officer (10) Education: Graduate of BS Community Development/ BS Social Work or any related course Skills: Community.
The title of the lunch-hour event was Does microfinance reduce poverty? A debate on the social impact of microfinance as a development tool. In the invitation, the debate was outlined as follows: Microcredit has been successful in …
Microfinance Focus , June 23, 2010 ( New Delhi) : ‘Microfinance Cracking the Capital Markets, South Asia 2010′, The conference on Microfinance.
Kiva, the Swahili word for “unity” or “agreement,” has come to stand for the power of microfinance and the internet. Founded in 2005 as the first micro-lending platform in the world, Kiva secured the first free payment processing …
