For three decades, microfinance institutions have given out small loans to the world's poor--mostly women--and amassed hundreds if not thousands of case studies showing that the loans help alleviate ...

Dhaka—In August, Bangladeshi police broke up a ring of human organ dealers operating in Joypurhat, a district in the north of the country. Investigators say that three local “brokers” preyed on a ...

Recent revelations about the role of Nobel Prize winner Muhummad Yunus in the alleged misuse of $100 million by the Grameen Banks (and the cover-up of that misallocation) have begun to provoke overdue ...

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, ...

Research commissioned by the Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA) and carried out by the M-CRIL ratings agency signals a retreat from the claim that there is a verifiable connection between ...

Dublin, Jan. 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Microfinance Market Report 2024" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The microfinance industry has demonstrated substantial ...

Microfinance has been hailed as a boon to the developing world. By extending small amounts of credit to would-be entrepreneurs, the model is said to raise incomes, reduce unemployment, and empower ...

New research from Cambodia challenges the microfinance industry’s assertions that its loans help farmers to resist the impacts of climate change. In fact, the research argues, microfinance undermines ...

We missed this earlier: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on June 14 issued a consultative document prescribing new regulatory frameworks for various lenders in the microfinance space. Why this matters?

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 ...