AbolishPoverty

New York Times (blog)

A Conversation With Ela R. BhattNew York Times (blog)I also asked her about the troubles of the microfinance business and her ideas about strengthening local economies. The RBI estimates that about 50 percent of Indian households do not have bank accounts. Do [...]

Michelin sheds light on their efforts to rebuild the small business economy in the wake of the economic collapse.

Malawi's solar micro-finance initiative builds business for women entrepreneurs. Jessica Buchleitner Women News …. Microfinance success for women in the Africa [...]

Hindu Business Line

Banks will now screen Microfinance institutions' salary packageEconomic TimesMUMBAI: The astronomical pay packages of promoters of microfinance institutions (MFIs) will come under intense scrutiny of banks that have extended funds to bail out the sector once touted as the torchbearer of financial inclusion. [...]

Onesimo J. Mukumba (2nd right) presenting the keys to Collins Amponsah Mensah while officials of both Fideliity Bank Ghana and the microfinance associations look on. Fidelity Bank Ghana Limited has once again shown …

Microcredit, or microfinance, more broadly, has taken the bottom-up approach [...]

Microfinance industry must speak in a collective voice in PIL before Madras HCMoneylife Personal Finance site and magazineThe PIL petition seeks a direction to "the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to investigate "unfair and illegal" practices [...]

AB Microfinance Bank Jobs 2011: AB Microfinance Bank has asking online applications from eligible and qualified candidates for the job of Client Advisers. The information regarding age limit, educational qualification and …

Microcredit, or microfinance, more broadly, has taken the bottom-up approach [...]

Indian microfinance credit bureau: Why is it not fully operational yet?Moneylife Personal Finance site and magazineIt has almost been over 12 months from the 2010 microfinance crisis and a transparent use of the microfinance credit bureau appears to [...]

AB Microfinance Bank Jobs 2011: AB Microfinance Bank has asking online applications from eligible and qualified candidates for the job of Client Advisers. The information regarding age limit, educational qualification and …

Microcredit, or microfinance, more broadly, has taken the bottom-up approach [...]

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: responsAbility Loans $9.2m to Microfinance Institutions …MicroCapitalresponsAbility Social Investments AG (responsAbility), a Swiss asset management company that manages four microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs), recently reported to MicroCapital that it made loans to microfinance institutions (MFIs) through its MIVs …

Microfinance promise to serve low-income or disadvantaged beneficiaries excluded from the formal banking sector in a financially sustainable way (thus to achieve the so called double bottom line of financial and social …

On the occasion of the fifth birthday of [...]