Tess Vigeland: Microfinancing has become trendy over the past few years. Thousands of ordinary people have given small loans to farmers in Namibia or corner store owners in Kazakhstan. You give to ...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) advises microfinance institutions to closely monitor financial stress as loan disbursements ...
The answer: Typically, they’ve exhibited the same resourcefulness that has characterized many other small businesses during the pandemic. At the same time, they face a variety of ongoing, unique ...
As Nigeria’s microfinance sector grapples with macroeconomic volatility, Lovonus Microfinance Bank is choosing a path defined ...
(MENAFN- Jordan Times) Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) are important for the Jordanian economy, helping to create jobs and encourage innovation. However, financing is a major challenge for ...
The microfinance model has helped to address the world's social challenges to some extent. Sanitation is one of the world's social challenges and microfinance can be used as an intervention tool to ...
In August, two local Cambodian organizations, Licadho and Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT) published Collateral Damage: Land Loss and Abuses in Cambodia’s Microfinance Sector, a report about the dangerous ...
The RBI has flagged rising stress in microfinance loans, urging NBFCs to balance growth with sound practices, even as overall ...
Microfinance has been been one of financial innovations best able to empower people at the bottom of the pyramid to plug into economic growth and move out of poverty. But the recent political violence ...