Here’s three takes on microfinance, all from the past month:
The market capitalization of SKS Microfinance, India’s largest micro finance company which listed on the stock markets on the 16th August 2010 has crossed US$ 2 Billion in a short span of two week. The stock also made a new 52 week high …
Book review by david of the book on microfinance titled why microfinance doesn’t work . A controversial book on microfinance highlighting it’s negative effects on development.
What micro-credit pioneer Muhammad Yunus started in Bangladesh in the 1970s as a way to help the country’s poor lift themselves out of pov… Read more of this post, Could Microfinance Work in America?, at Change.org.
There are many small and medium MFI’s (Microfinance Institutions) in Tajikistan, around 90, and there are also a few large ones, and a few banks as well. The most interesting aspect to me is that there are so many that even the AMFOT- …
Citi to support financial inclusion, microfinance in India Banking behemoth Citigroup was keen to be a part of India’s growth story and would continue to.
A cautionary post on micro-finance. lambert’s picture. Fri, 09/03/2010 – 1:58am lambert. Felix Salmon. Good institutions do exist. But not all microfinance institutions are good. There are, after all, advantages to become a rentier. …
We’ve recorded recently how Grameen Foundation a U.S.-based nonprofit that builds on the work of Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus to try to “enable the poor to create a world without poverty” through microfinance (very small loans, …
Milford Bateman author of Why Microfinance Doesn’t work has written a detailed book on impact of microfinance and it’s impact and relevance in capitalism.
Ways for these microfinance firms to receive capital, via either equity or debt, is becoming an increasingly relevant theme. A need for some of these firms to meet unmet demand and remain competitive is practically imperative in the …
