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 ...

Explore the complexities of microfinance, its benefits, challenges, and the need for better regulation and financial ...

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, ...

Veena Mankar, a banker in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India, looked at the slums in her city and wondered why needy people in urban areas could not benefit from the same access to loans and other ...

Those are some of the findings from research conducted for the 2021-2022 60 Decibels Microfinance Index, aimed at assessing the effectiveness of microfinance practices—by talking to customers. Based ...

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 ...

For several years, the private sector has had cause to complain incessantly about sky-high lending rates in the banking ...

With better data, wider reporting, and smarter lending, Uganda can turn financial access into affordable credit for all ...

[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 ...

Microfinance in Karnataka shows recovery signs despite rising delinquency, with loan outstanding at ₹12,128 crores by ...

Microfinance can provide tangible commercial opportunities for banks in the region notably if they partner with a microfinance institution, said Debbie Arnold, VP of Emerging Markets at Visa ...