The issue of poverty has become a front burner issue all over the world especially in the continents of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The interest shown all over the world may be genuine but there are some elements of enlightened self …
Two Birds With One Stone: How Microfinance Staff Training Has Double-Sided Benefits On the west coast of India, overlooking a deep natural.
When I have a few moments to myself these days, I often find myself thinking about current aid structures and imagining how things might be different with the introduction of microfinance. Just this morning on my run, I was listening to …
Article Title: Microfinance loans can bring hope to Haiti.
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.
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.
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.
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, …
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.
