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Posted Monday, June 30, 2008
The Donor of the Month and our new levels of giving are featured. See if your name is on the list!
Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Embracing free market principles.
Microcredit and integral economics fights the worst of violences: poverty
Rev. David H. Garcia serves as Senior Advisor for Clergy Outreach for Catholic Relief Services.
Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008
The second annual Blog Action Day 08 will occur on October 15 it was announced today.
Grameen Koota's mission is to help poor women in rural areas and urban slums through {use of] microc
Grameen Koota (Karnataka's microfinance success story.
One of the most controversial discussions that emerged from the recent Microcredit Summit Campaign conference in Bali was Mohammed Yunus's scathing condemnation of for-profit microfinance company Banc
Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The microfinance industry, though a very small piece of the global financing market, has grown into a vibrant market.
A Month of Microfinance in Southeast Asia
California-based Obopay has teamed with microfinance pioneer Grameen to launch an initiative that aims to use mobile technology to deliver banking services to a billion of the world's poorest people b
Posted Monday, August 04, 2008
Major leaders of the global microfinance movement gathered this week at the Microcredit Summit Campaign in Bali, Indonesia
Gates Foundation to Invest in Programs to Help Collect Deposits for the World's Poor
Yunus says the current financial system needs a massive redesign in light of the recent economic slowdown.
Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008
MicroFinance Transparency initiative aims to publish interest rates of all microfinance organizations.
Microloans Pay Off for Planet, Investors
Microcredit pioneer helps world's poorest
Lancaster man forms a nonprofit organization that will state the true cost of microfinance loans.
Posted Monday, July 14, 2008
World Bank has been slow to embrace the idea of microfinance.
Believing in the power of the nano customer, MFIs are catering to credit needs of micro-entrepreneurs in urban and large metropolitan areas
The World Bank can help by directing more aid to microcredit, a promising tool for giving poor people the means to help themselves
Posted Monday, July 07, 2008
Microfinance is the best way of bringing out the natural entrepreneurship of some of the world's poorest people.
MFI Compartamentos argues best way for microfinance to help poor is to go for-profit
An interview with Muhammad Yunus.
Posted Monday, June 30, 2008
In support of profiting from the poor, the Economist examines the Mexican bank, Compartamos.
Is it the responsibility of businesses to help the poor?
Iraq might be the perfect opportunity for microfinance.
Posted Monday, June 23, 2008
Mary Ellen Iskenderian — president and CEO of Women's World Banking (WWB) speaks about the change
NHS graduate to spend 10 months in Colombia
Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Not one or two or three, but four presentations at the AMC in Kampala, Uganda, dealt with the use of technology for increasing access to financial services.
Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and 2006 Nobel laureate, speaks with Oliver Clarke, chairman and managing director of The Gleaner Company.
After high school, Lauren Clark, 25, writes about microfinance and her experience in Africa.
Posted Monday, June 09, 2008
Nobel laureate Yunus tells MIT class of '08 they can 'change the world'
Discussing prospects of banking through cellphones.
Danielle Hopkins is with Microfinance Opportunities, a Washington-based group that focuses on financial literacy and other issues facing microfinance. Here are her thoughts.
Posted Monday, June 02, 2008
Opportunity International Canada's invest-in-the-poor effort thrives in Africa
Grameen Foundation and Pro Mujer International Secure More Than $1.2 Million in Financing for Pro Mu
Grameen Foundation and Pro Mujer International today announced a US$1.2 million loan for Pro Mujer Peru that will expand new opportunities for poor Peruvian women in need of credit.
Studies show that development aid given to women is more likely to provide positive educational and health benefits for their children than money given to men
Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008
Trying to balance between alleviating poverty and generating profits some MFIs charge their impoverished clients exorbitant interest rates.
Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008
María Otero is the president and CEO of ACCION International , a leading nonprofit microfinance organization.
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