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Microfinance has promoted the impression that it is good at some things—reducing poverty and empowering women—while actually being good...

The intense uncertainty of poverty leaves an intense need for ways to set aside money in good times for use in bad times (and to...

Microfinance:Few development ideas have been so buoyed by high expectations in recent decades, and few have been so buffeted by...

Clearly an innovator has the obligation to show that an innovation works before promoting its widespread adoption.  In this and the next...

The more than 1.2 million microenterprises operating in Colombia are responsible for around 50 percent of all employment. And many of...

Tazul Islam suggests that microcredit has a “positive impact on enterprise and household income and asset accumulation, household...

Milford Bateman, the author of Why Doesn’t Microfinance Work?, argues that microcredit offers only an “illusion of poverty reduction”....

A 1996 study in Bangladesh acknowledges the “success” of reaching women with microcredit as “highly impressive”, but also notes that...

Modern Microcredit The origins of microcredit in its current practical incarnation can be linked to several organizations founded in...

Microcredit is the extension of very small loans (microloans) to impoverished borrowers who typically lack collateral, steady employment...

The savings under the mattress in inflationary environments represents a permanent loss of purchasing power, savings and assets...

Strong Value Proposition of Microfinance.

Since microcredit first came to public attention in the 1980′s, the usual story line has been that it funds creation and expansion of...

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