In the first year of the Schwab Charitable Microfinance Guarantee Program, donors set aside $10-million from their gift funds to guarantee small loans to poor entrepreneurs in developing countries. As ...

In the 1990s, microfinance emerged as the leading development strategy adopted to alleviate poverty and empower the "poor," particularly women. Views differ, however, on the extent to which access to ...

The Social Security System over the weekend launched the UnionBank-powered SSS LoanLite micro-lending program, aiming to ...

Toronto, ON, May 14, 2008 - The MasterCard Foundation launched its Scholars Program today by awarding grants totaling $600,000 to six leading microfinance training institutes. The program will fund ...

During the last few years, the volume of microfinance activity has grown considerably in the Philippines and an increasing number of financial institutions have engaged in retail microfinance ...

Cebuana Lhuillier, the country’s leading microfinance services provider, has once again placed the Philippines on the global ...

How do you get people to participate? A new study shows just how much more popular anti-poverty programs can be when socially well-connected citizens are the first to know about them. MIT News reports ...