Lately, microfinance has been attracting attention for all the wrong reasons. The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship started off here March 30 with a discussion of what lessons social ...

Microfinance organizations serve only about 50 million people, a tiny slice of the world’s poor. But Dell’s grant to Swadhaar, for example, could yield decades of financial services to India’s urban ...

While scandals rock the microfinance industry, Christian nonprofits diversify their efforts to help the poor. Microfinance may be falling victim to its own success. Since starting in the 1970s, ...

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There is a market for microfinance in the United States but a change in regulatory framework is needed for the sector to thrive. Women sell items at a Grameen America open house at St. John’s ...

When the rich suffer, so do the poor. Or so goes the trickle-down theory. It turns out, though, that the spreading of global financial pain is far from simple. The microfinance industry, for instance, ...

Micro entrepreneurs in developing countries who take out loans from microfinance organizations as members of a group are more satisfied with their experience than individual borrowers. And ...

Hit by the credit crunch, lenders anticipate fewer loans to the poor. When Mama Atiya’s husband died in 2006, her in-laws claimed the family property, a patriarchal tradition in the Democratic ...

[Courtesy Maria Lenis] College sophomore Jose Palau interviews entrepreneurs who own and operate an Internet kiosk in the village of Thiruvallur, in southern India. The project was made possible by ...

India Ratings and Research says that the proposed regulation may disrupt collections and tighten lending in the key market ...

Dar es Salaam. Tanzania’s microfinance sector, long seen as a lifeline for small businesses, farmers and low-income borrowers ...

In a major step toward strengthening Nigeria’s digital payment ecosystem, Strowallet Digital Services Limited has unveiled its card issuing infrastructure, designed for fintech startups, microfinance ...