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OPINION: Twenty years of making microfinance, or whatever you want to call it, work
Today in Seattle, an organization called Global Partnerships celebrates two decades of helping people rise up out of poverty through a variety of initiatives all aimed at empowering the poor – by helping smallholder farmers, improving health, encouraging the use of “green” technologies and through microfinance.
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Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman on Dangote and investing in Africa
“He is a smart guy, and he always has something informative to say.”
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Move over banks, Reserve Bank of India pushes for smart wallets
The RBI is running a pilot project with a group of private payment gateway operators like Oxigen and Airtel Money to facilitate money transfers without the intervention of a bank.
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‘Independence from Credit’: Pro Mujer co-founder Carmen Velasco discusses self-help groups, and how much profit is too much in microfinance
As a pioneer of microfinance in Latin America, Pro Mujer co-founder Carmen Velasco has had a front-row seat for the sector’s tumultuous evolution over the past two decades. In this video Q&A, Part Two in our series on The Future of Microfinance, she discusses the need for MFIs to help clients move beyond credit - and how self-help savings groups could make some microcredit providers obsolete.
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The Business Case for BoP Strategies: In part two of this series, how Brazil’s Tenda Atacado bagged scale
Tenda Atacado, a supermarket chain and wholesale distributor, noted a demand within the local BoP community and it’s growth has surged ever since. Part two of a series exploring the base of the pyramid practices, from the Erb Institute and Manaus Consulting, looks at Tenda’s strategy.
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U.S. States Ease Interest Rate Laws That Protected Poor Borrowers
Lenders have come under fire in Washington in recent years. Yet one corner of the financial industry — lending to people with poor credit scores — has found sympathetic audiences in many state capitals.
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Improving Financial Services for Indonesia’s Underserved
Financial inclusion is about reaching out to the poor and vulnerable in ways that allow them to take part in the world of financial services either for saving or getting credit. There are at least three ways to do this.
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PRESS RELEASE: Innovative Collaboration Aims to Bring Greater Transparency to Sub-Saharan Microfinance
Aiming to bring greater transparency to microfinance across Sub-Saharan Africa, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), The MasterCard Foundation and Moody’s Analytics have launched an innovative collaboration to use Moody’s Analytics’ social performance assessments (SPA) to help microfinance institutions better measure and manage their long-term social impact.
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