Microfinance may be one of the world’s most powerful new solutions to poverty, as well as to the wars, diseases, and suffering that poverty ignites. If it works. Supporters of microfinance contend ...

The following post was published on the Knowledge@Wharton website on January 16, 2013. Microfinance -- an approach to poverty based on providing small loans and other financial services to poor people ...

TORONTO, ON, May 7, 2008 – The MasterCard Foundation awarded a two-year, $740,000 grant today to Microfinance Information eXchange (MIX) to launch MIX Market 2.0, a next-generation Web platform for ...

For three decades, microfinance institutions have given out small loans to the world's poor--mostly women--and amassed hundreds if not thousands of case studies showing that the loans help alleviate ...

What happens when crowdsourcing is applied to the microfinance sector? Bankers Without Borders, an initiative of the Grameen Foundation, has embraced crowdsourcing—the process of leveraging a large ...

KARACHI: The Microfinance Credit Information Bureau (MF-CIB) will aid policy instruments by providing accurate indebtedness and delinquency information. Muhammad Kamran Shehzad, Deputy Governor, State ...

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has amended the requirements for ensuring information protection when conducting financial transactions with customers by non-credit financial institutions.

Over the past two decades, “microfinance”—the extension of small loans and other financial services to individuals in poor countries—has become a darling of the international development community.

In his book, Sinclair focuses most of his attention on the Lift Above Poverty Organisation, which operates in Nigeria Credit: Photo: Reuters It was the popular endorsement the rest of the financial ...

In a recent interview with the Khmer Times, Sunniya Durrani-Jamal, the Asian Development Bank’s country director for Cambodia, noted that ever-growing household debt was approaching worrying levels.