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Posted Monday, June 30, 2008
The Donor of the Month and our new levels of giving are featured. See if your name is on the list!
Posted Monday, July 14, 2008
World Bank has been slow to embrace the idea of microfinance.
Believing in the power of the nano customer, MFIs are catering to credit needs of micro-entrepreneurs in urban and large metropolitan areas
The World Bank can help by directing more aid to microcredit, a promising tool for giving poor people the means to help themselves
Posted Monday, July 07, 2008
Microfinance is the best way of bringing out the natural entrepreneurship of some of the world's poorest people.
MFI Compartamentos argues best way for microfinance to help poor is to go for-profit
An interview with Muhammad Yunus.
Posted Monday, June 30, 2008
In support of profiting from the poor, the Economist examines the Mexican bank, Compartamos.
Is it the responsibility of businesses to help the poor?
Iraq might be the perfect opportunity for microfinance.
Posted Monday, June 23, 2008
Mary Ellen Iskenderian — president and CEO of Women's World Banking (WWB) speaks about the change
NHS graduate to spend 10 months in Colombia
Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Not one or two or three, but four presentations at the AMC in Kampala, Uganda, dealt with the use of technology for increasing access to financial services.
Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and 2006 Nobel laureate, speaks with Oliver Clarke, chairman and managing director of The Gleaner Company.
After high school, Lauren Clark, 25, writes about microfinance and her experience in Africa.
Posted Monday, June 09, 2008
Nobel laureate Yunus tells MIT class of '08 they can 'change the world'
Discussing prospects of banking through cellphones.
Danielle Hopkins is with Microfinance Opportunities, a Washington-based group that focuses on financial literacy and other issues facing microfinance. Here are her thoughts.
Posted Monday, June 02, 2008
Opportunity International Canada's invest-in-the-poor effort thrives in Africa
Grameen Foundation and Pro Mujer International Secure More Than $1.2 Million in Financing for Pro Mu
Grameen Foundation and Pro Mujer International today announced a US$1.2 million loan for Pro Mujer Peru that will expand new opportunities for poor Peruvian women in need of credit.
Studies show that development aid given to women is more likely to provide positive educational and health benefits for their children than money given to men
Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008
Trying to balance between alleviating poverty and generating profits some MFIs charge their impoverished clients exorbitant interest rates.
Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008
María Otero is the president and CEO of ACCION International , a leading nonprofit microfinance organization.
Muhammad Yunus analyzes the ability of business to tackle social problems
The Legatum Centre for Development and Entrepreneurship opens its doors in Boston this year.
Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008
With the right market conditions, mobile banking could reach large numbers of poor people who are outside the formal financial system
Microsoft is looking at alternatives to ultra-low-cost laptops in the drive to arm people in developing nations with a way to communicate and access the Internet
Is it acceptable to profit from the poor?
Posted Monday, May 12, 2008
In Pakistan, as with the rest of the world, high food prices are contributing to a further spike in poverty.
Groups of college students have been testing the efficacy of microfinance in the US.
Examining the effect of cell phones on poverty
Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Muhammad Yunus tries his approach in the US.
Mobile banking could reach large numbers of poor people who are outside the formal financial system.
Reflections from Matt Flannery, a pioneer of modern microfinance
Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008
MicroPlace adds investment opportunities in nine new countries
Muhammad Yunus says the most important step to ending poverty is the creation of employment and income opportunities for the poor.
In a powerful synergy, Kiva, has partnered with Advanta, a credit issuer that is highly supportive of small businesses, to create KivaB4B
Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008
A round table organized by the Council on Foreign Relations about The Commercialization of Microfinance
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