Join Business Exchange
to access the most
relevant content for you,
filtered by like-minded
business professionals.
Learn more

MICROFINANCE

Microfinance refers to financial services provided to low-income people, usually to help support self-employment. Microfinance can include small loans, savings plans, insurance, payment transfers, and other services that are provided in small increments that low-income individuals can afford. These services assist families in starting small enterprises such as farming. This topic cover the latest new and information on microfinance.

Microfinance is part of Business Exchange, suggested by Gabriel Rabinovici. This topic contains 517 news and 1,030 blog items. Read updated news, blogs, and resources about Microfinance. Find user-submitted articles and reactions on Microfinance from like-minded professionals.

Most Active

The most active stories in this topic based on user activity.

Borrowing a Solutionmore

Is microcredit the right step towards development and poverty reduction?

Muhammad Yunus to Keynote Investment Conferencemore

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus is widely regarded as the father of microcredit. He is also the founder of...

Business Tools for Social Impact: Continuous Improvementmore

Related Blog: Balancing the Social and the Financial in Microfinance Blog: Beyond Microfinance: Scaling Financial...

Microfinance's Latest Challenge: Cutting Back on Over-indebtedness Amo...more

Long before "99%" became a symbol of Occupy Wall Street, the microfinance industry used the number to...

Microcredit doesn’t end poverty, despite all the hypemore

OPINION | The idea has a simple and powerful appeal, but the model doesn’t end global poverty.

Accessibility of Information: A Good Thing?more

Experiences in Media, Marketing & Communications

Microfinance USA 2011more

Official website for Microfinance USA Conference 2011

Micro-financing - Combating Poverty through Businessmore

Read the latest European business news & analysis. Get original opinions, curious facts, interviews and many more...

Film on Yunus’s Grameen America in Theatersmore

Matt Damon reached out to audience members inviting them to find out how they can help, and Hugh Jackman encouraged...

Mission Markets Musings: Howard Finkelsteinmore

Why I Joined Mission Markets Okay -- just to get the facts out of the way first -- I have practiced law since 1979,...

Islamic Microfinance in Chicagomore

“Chicago Islamic Microfinance Project is not an investment fund; it is a not-for-profit organization. Our funding would...

Microfinance in Developing Economiesmore

By: Melissa Samuelson, Clinical Professor of Global Entrepreneurship Around the world, there are tens of millions of...

How To Measure Microfinance's Social Impactmore

For three decades, microfinance institutions have given out small loans to the world's poor--mostly women--and amassed...

WHO’S WHO IN MICROFINANCE: Compartamos Bancomore

Compartamos Banco, the largest microfinance bank in Mexico in terms of client base, was founded in Mexico in 1990 as a...

Energy Smart Micro-Lending | CleanTechies Blogmore

Today is time to take a moment to make a plug for a specific charity as I am about to write a check and you might want...

The UPS Foundation Funds Economic Empowermentmore

A Trust Group of 17 women in Chennai, India, hold a sign in gratitude for the contributions made by UPS to help bring...

Muhammad Yunus Banks to Play in U.S. Theatersmore

Theaters across America will host a special media event, introducing American audiences to the potential for...

Required Reading: Report on Impact Investing by J.P. Morgan and The Ro...more

Impact Investments: An emerging asset class, is a new report put together by Social Finance at J.P. Morgan and The...

Clinton Global Initiative – Were you Part of the 8 Million?more

For those of you who follow conversations related to social innovation, global development and philanthropy, you were...

Can Microfinance Make It in America?more

Emily Medina isn't running a pyramid scheme, despite what people often think. As the petite 26-year-old works her way...

The Local Touch: Financial inclusion in Pudhuaaru, Thanjavurmore

Pudhuaaru branch���almost the way they would in a bank. They can take loans, that too not at punitive microfinance...

New VAT Rules on Place of Supply of Servicesmore

A reminder for all businesses who are involved in cross-border transactions. Following the implementation of the EU VAT...

Who's Who In MicroFinance: Triple Jumpmore

Triple Jump was founded in 2006 to support the expansion of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in various stages of...

Ravalli Republic - Bitterroot Valley News: Hamilton, Stevensville, Dar...more

Hey would-be entrepreneurs - keep an eye on the paper in coming weeks. The Ravalli County Economic Development...

Gates Foundation Seeks to Spur Savings by the Poor - Bits Blogmore

For decades, the microfinance industry has really been about microcredit — making tiny loans to shoestring...

Topic Feed: Most active content in Microfinance

Top Sources: Microfinance

  • Forbes.com
  • Economic Times
  • microcapital.org
  • Knowledge Network: Research and Opinions
  • microfinanceusaconference.org
  • missionmarkets.blogspot.com
  • VCCircle Feeds
  • Guardian Unlimited
  • The Hindu
  • thebeginner.eu

Most Active Users in this Topic

see all contributors in Microfinance

Featured White Papers

Post a Job

Jobs in this Topic

Project Manager, Financial Process Transformation DLC | Los Angeles, CA
Posted: May 28
Finance Equities Analytics - AVP Deutsche Bank | New York, NY
Posted: May 1
Sr Director Sales - Ingram Micro Logistics - multiple positions/ Ingram Micro | Santa Ana, CA
Posted: May 4
Programmer (Micro) Employment Plus | Ohio
Posted: Feb 12
Finance Manager DLC | San Jose, CA
Posted: May 28

Report comment contains invalid characters. ()
cancel
Search Cancel