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Gates Foundation's Ignacio Mas On eFinance in the Developing World

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Jim Luce

Ignacio Mas, Deputy Director of the Financial Services for the Poor Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, took time off from his hectic schedule at the recent GSM Alliance Congress in Madrid to speak to me over coffee.

Why are microfinance interest rates so high?

Elisabeth Rhyne | Posted 05.25.2011

Elisabeth Rhyne

Americans often suffer sticker shock when they hear about interest rates charged in international microfinance. At annualized rates above 20 percent, ...

How much debt is too much? Microlenders want to know.

Elisabeth Rhyne | Posted 05.25.2011

Elisabeth Rhyne

When does a borrower cross the line from leveraged into losing it? Every borrower wants to avoid sliding into debt stress. Lenders, too, have a stake ...

Fonkoze Helps Rebuild Haiti through Microfinance Following Earthquake

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Jim Luce

Unprecedented Collaboration Assists the Most Vulnerable In the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, January 23, an unprecedented joint NGO-military operation ...