Lately, microfinance has been attracting attention for all the wrong reasons. The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship started off here March 30 with a discussion of what lessons social ...

At the intersection of finance and social consciousness at Tufts is the Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Fund (OTMF), which gains profits from investing in small businesses and uses the money it earns to ...

The FINANCIAL — IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has provided a loan of up to $10 million to PRASAC Microfinance Institution Ltd., Cambodia’s largest organization of its kind, to increase ...

While Bangladesh’s new “caretaker,” Muhammad Yunus, has been widely recognized for pioneering the field of microfinance, mainstream economics has largely dismissed insights from this development model ...

The Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (MSMEDA) has signed a EGP 300 million microfinance agreement with Reefy Microfinance Enterprise Services Co., according to a statement. The ...