Widely discussed in the media and other forums, microfinance is often depicted as a villain causing more harm than good to the poor. How true is this? Microfinance started off in India sometime in the ...

When the rich suffer, so do the poor. Or so goes the trickle-down theory. It turns out, though, that the spreading of global financial pain is far from simple. The microfinance industry, for instance, ...

As well as being a seminal quote from John F Kennedy’s inaugural address, “help them help themselves” is an idea that has long been discussed and explored with respect to the global poverty agenda. As ...

An increase in the proportion of women accessing microfinance services by just 15% could potentially reduce gender inequality, as measured by the Gender Inequality Index, by half in the average ...

In this lesson, students will be introduced to the practice and industry of microfinance, learning how the provision of unsecured loans to low-income, small-scale entrepreneurs in the developing world ...

We need a new sustainable mainstream and we need it fast. So change agents need to get smarter about how to create change. Through a series of articles I am going to look at some successful examples ...