One of the interesting things about microfinance in Bangladesh is that its intense market saturation has not resulted in a crisis of over-indebtedness or unmanageable default. "Overlapping" is common -- that is, clients taking loans from several MFIs at the same time.
Mitchell J. Rabin | Posted 01.10.2012 | Business
Remove foreclosure as an outcome of non-payment and an entirely fresh vision of borrower-lender relationship is put in place, now as cooperating partners, as in a business deal, because that's really what it is.
Mitchell J. Rabin | Posted 11.26.2011 | Business
I had the unique opportunity to meet Dr. Muhammad Yunus last week in NYC after the screening of a film called Bonsai People directed by Holly Mosher.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 11.21.2011 | World
Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Grameen Bank, which started out by offering small loans to Bangladesh's poor women to help encourage self-enterprise and foster community development.
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 10.11.2011 | Impact
WASHINGTON -- The Nobel Peace Prize winner who invented microcredit presented his latest idea for combating poverty, "social business," to the State D...
Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 08.24.2011 | Impact
Acid violence is a form of vengeance for other types of social conflicts like disputes over land. In most cases the women, young and adolescent girls and girl children are the victims.
DeSmogBlog | Joanna Zelman | Posted 06.06.2011 | Green
Microfinance is intended to help the poor. The poor are often the most affected by climate change. Yet, some microfinance programs actually further co...
Scott Baker | Posted 06.04.2011 | Impact
Would banking on the poor be any more risky than banking on the money-leveraging banks that have already failed and had to be bailed out -- for trillions?
Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Supporters of microfinance around the world stand in support of Dr. Yunus and are doing their best to help resolve this situation.
Jake Whitney | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
On March 2, Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, was abruptly forced from his position as managing director of Grameen Bank, the Bangladesh-based financial institution he founded thirty years ago.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus filed an appeal Wednesday with Bangladesh's highest court in a final attempt to keep his job at th...
Elisabeth Rhyne | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Vijay Mahajan, founder of the microfinance institution BASIX, and widely regarded as the dean of Indian microfinance, is walking the hot and dusty roads of rural India in his kurta pajama and sandals.
AP | FARID HOSSAIN | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh's government ordered Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus from his post as head of his microfinance bank Wednesday &ndas...
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
That Davos would turn to faith community leaders for help is good news to me, but the headline in yesterday's International Herald Tribune indicated we still have a long way to go.
The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Sometimes all it takes is a little bit of faith for a struggling individual to finally find success. With MicroGrants, Joe Selvaggio is helping t...
Francine Hardaway | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Once in a while, there will be a breakout idea in the group, but I don't care. It doesn't take a breakout idea to build a successful business; it takes a person with passion and a connection to customers.
Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Okay, normally I work with Kiva, focusing on the West Bank with CHF International, but that's no big deal compared to The Simpsons. (Mr Simpson's one...
Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
The poorest of the poor in the microfinance world pay back at rates as high as 99%. Wall Street banks not only did not pay back, they took from us and paid themselves bonuses. Guess they aren't very good bankers are they?
Elisabeth Rhyne | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Many people committed to social justice have a built-in assumption that nonprofits are inherently more virtuous than for-profit companies. However, for-profit businesses have been the primary engines of wealth creation in the modern world.
Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
With the advent of sites like Kiva, the popularity of microlending is spreading, and may soon rival nonprofit donations as the prominent method of sup...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
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.
Eric Holt Gimenez | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
With Jennifer Kampe This year, Silicon Valley Bank, an investment bank whose clientele includes high-tech startups, life-science corporations, and pr...
Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
The following are parts of a recent speech delivered by the head of the Microcredit Summit, Sam Daley-Harris entitled, "Purpose, Poverty, Pitfalls and Redemption."
Kari Stoever | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
While resources are critical to support emergency relief efforts in Haiti, the bigger challenges are in finding sustainable long-term solutions that empower the Haitians to rebuild their country.
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
In past years at Davos, I often found myself in early morning optional sessions on social responsibility, in small rooms on the third floor of the c...
Elisabeth Rhyne | Posted 02.10.2012 | World