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Social Enterprises and Solving the World's Problems: How Impact Investing Needs to Change

Geri Stengel | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: B Corp, Global Impact Investing Network, Impact Investing, Microfinance, Benefit Corporation, Antony Bugg Levine, Sks, Micro-Finance, Andhra Pradesh, Giin, Impact News
Geri Stengel

Let's hope that for-profit companies can balance profit motives with social impact because government and nonprofits can't solve the world's problems by themselves.

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Nobel Peace Winner Slams Poverty Profiteering

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yunus, Sks, Global Partnerships, Microfinance, Jonathan Lewis, Compartamos, Impact News
Jonathan Lewis

With almost biblical scorn, Yunus implicitly casts market fundamentalists out of the temple of microfinance.

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Is Yunus Right About Charitable Donations?

Bhagwan Chowdhry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Microfinance, Sks, Microcredit, Poverty, Muhammad Yunus, Philanthropy, Compartamos, Small Business America, World News
Bhagwan Chowdhry

Many renowned micro-credit proponents, most notably Yunus, often discard charitable donations. But isn't a charity dollar a zero interest loan with a very long maturity?

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An Increasingly Important Debate: Microfinance as a Non-Profit or Possible IPO?

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yunus, Ipo, Check Cashing, Microfinance, For Profit, Alex Counts, Grameen, Sks, Payday Loans, Vikram Akula, Investors, Business News
Vivian Norris

Nonprofit Microlending is based on trust. For profit lending is not. This is a huge difference, and it's possible the latter could turn into a repeat of the villager loan shark mode

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On Microfinance: Who's to Blame for the Crisis in Andhra Pradesh?

Elisabeth Rhyne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Microloans, Reserve Bank of India, Microfinance, Sks, Andhra Pradesh, Business News
Elisabeth Rhyne

The sensationalized newspaper accounts of suicides among over-indebted clients of some of India's biggest microfinance institutions threatens the future of microfinance in India.

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Funding the Risk Frontier in Microfinance

Elisabeth Rhyne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bancosol, Grameen, Oxfam, Opportunity International, Microplace, Brac, Accion, Care, Microfinance, Calvert Foundation, Kiva, Social Investing, Equity Bank, Sks, Compartamos, Business News
Elisabeth Rhyne

The recent IPO of SKS Microfinance, India's largest microfinance institution (MFI), was a watershed event whose ripples are affecting the public perception of microfinance.

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Microfinance: Keeping the Mission When Non-Profits Become For-Profits

Elisabeth Rhyne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Microloans, Bancosol, Ipo, Microfinance, Grameen Bank, Unitus, Ngos, Non-Profits, Financial Inclusion, Sks, Business News
Elisabeth Rhyne

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.

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