As the Haitian government and international donors work to put into place their post-earthquake recovery plans, creating economic hubs outside of ...
Populist governments across Latin America are re-shaping the environment in which microfinance institutions (MFIs) provide financial services to low i...
by Lauren Hendricks, CARE In 2002, I attended my first MicroCredit Summit in Cote d'Ivoire. It consisted of a few hundred Westerners discussing how m...
Two billion people live on two dollars a day or less. Working with local partners overseas, Trickle Up first delivers basic business training and microloans for the ultra poor.
There are a number of attractive features of microequity over microloans. It is time for academics and practitioners to fine-tune the theory and the practice and explore the promise of microequity.
Scott Gilmore offers a bet. With one phone call, the Ottawa native said he could get a trailer filled with bottled water shipped to the most remote co...
If the microfinance model truly requires high interest rates, is it an anti-poverty tool for the impoverished or a pro-profit tool for investors? What is a fair price for good credit?
With Jennifer Kampe This year, Silicon Valley Bank, an investment bank whose clientele includes high-tech startups, life-science corporations, and pr...
Americans often suffer sticker shock when they hear about interest rates charged in international microfinance. At annualized rates above 20 percent, ...
In developing countries, college can cost several hundred dollars per year -- and yet, if you don't have the money to go, you won't. There's no such t...
Unlike other sites where visitors lend their money to people in need, World Vision Micro allows visitors to underwrite a microloan for their chosen entrepreneur as a tax-deductible donation.
Upon meeting Karim Khoja, C.E.O. of the Telecom Development Company Afghanistan Ltd., also known as Roshan, Afghanistan's largest cell provider, I kne...
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 ...
Microfinance can and does work in the U.S. The loans are larger than in the developing world, and the businesses financed are different. But the impact on people's lives and the local economy is real.
What if you knew in the 5th grade you'd never be able to afford college or do anything beyond high school? In most developing countries, student loans simply don't exist.
Okay, check out A B C D .... We Need Books To Read! This serves an underfunded school in South Carolina, the deal being that several people funded t...
Unprecedented Collaboration Assists the Most Vulnerable In the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, January 23, an unprecedented joint NGO-military operation ...
The nation's premier event on domestic Microfinance - Microfinance USA - opens here in San Francisco on May 20th. I have the privilege to speak on a ...
Preachy rhetoric about free markets and globalization often overlooks the on-the-ground work that is needed to actually make markets work. Imaginary markets have failed the poor.
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."
BRAC USA aims to aid southern Sudan in the areas of microfinance, health, education and agricultural development. BRAC is now the largest microfinance provider in the country.
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.
Any significant shift of disaster-relief funds for Haiti to support microcredit programs as a strategy for rebuilding after the earthquake would be a misguided and potentially destructive decision.
Could you imagine waking up at 6 a.m. every day and going to work for a 14-hour workday -- when you were eight years old?
After two years of support -- asset transfers, skill training and social linkages -- over 90% of our program women "graduate" into becoming successful microfinance members.
