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The Microfinance CatalystProject SyndicateMicrofinance its advent, rise, and recent crises shows how. The microfinance industry began in the 1980's in Bangladesh with the non-profit Grameen Bank and BRAC Bank. Donors soon helped launch other microfinance institutions in Mexico, India, …and more »

When both governments and markets fail, impact investors can stimulate change. Microfinance its advent, rise, and recent crises shows how.

Microfinance the provision of small, group loans to poor people in poor countries is, depending on whom you ask, [...]

Hindu Business Line

Microfinance sector shrinks by 40%, post AP crisisHindu Business LineThe microfinance sector in the country has shrunk by about 40 per cent exactly a year after the crisis began to unfold in Andhra Pradesh. While the drop in portfolios and operations are [...]

Microfinance the provision of small, group loans to poor people in poor countries is, depending on whom you ask, either the latest way for western capitalists to exploit third world laborers or the miracle cure that will allow …

Is microfinance the saviour of the [...]

Pedde: Microfinance MythsThe DartmouthMicrofinance the provision of small, group loans to poor people in poor countries is, depending on whom you ask, either the latest way for western capitalists to exploit third world laborers or the miracle cure …

The volatile combination of profit-seeking microfinance companies, minimal competition, and vulnerable borrowers has opened up dangerous potential for exploiting the poor. The microcredit industry needs to be …

Malawi's solar micro-finance initiative builds business for women entrepreneurs. Jessica Buchleitner [...]

Indian Express

RBI's new securitisation guidelines will hurt us: MFI industryHindustan TimesPTI The cash-starved microfinance sector will be severely hit by if the new draft guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India on securitisation of loan portfolios are implemented, according to the microfinance industry. [...]

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

Microfinance promise to serve low-income or disadvantaged beneficiaries excluded from [...]

BPI microfinance bank ventures into microinsuranceBusinessWorld OnlineMOBILE MICROFINANCE bank BPI Globe BanKO will begin offering microinsurance after partnering with two other subsidiaries of the Bank of the Philippine Islands. In a statement, BPI Globe BanKO said it has partnered with BPI Philam Life Assurance Corp. …

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

Microfinance promise to serve low-income or disadvantaged beneficiaries excluded from [...]