Microfinance may be one of the world’s most powerful new solutions to poverty, as well as to the wars, diseases, and suffering that poverty ignites. If it works. Supporters of microfinance contend ...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Nov. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Smart Campaign, a global initiative to incorporate strong client protection practices across the microfinance industry, today celebrates the recent ...

06 November 2012 90 microfinance institutions have been granted final licences by the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to commence full operations in the country. These include 77 microfinance companies, 11 money ...

The growing digitisation helped the country’s microfinance industry grow over 16 times in the last decade, and this presents an opportunity for the fintech players Fintech startups have the capability ...

New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India will relax provisioning requirement norms for the cash-strapped microfinance sector in the next two-three days, the central bank's Executive Director P Vijaya ...

Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, Vol. 4, No. 2 (11) (May 2009), pp. 112-133 (22 pages) AbstractThe main focus of this research is to critically evaluate the sustainability ...

Expensive microfinance loans in Kenya are driving smallscale businesspeople away from the same institutions that are supposed to boost businesses and help in eradication of poverty. Most ...