Governments from Brazil to Bosnia have launched massive microfinance programs, and commercial banks like ABN AMRO, HSBC and Citicorp are rushing down-market, which could increase...
A witness to the affects of poverty, Iraq War veteran Elizabeth Vallette gives us an eye-opening account about how instability in other parts of the...
www.sem-fund.org The SEM Fund, or the Senegal Ecovillage Microfinance Fund, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to alleviating poverty by providing low-interest business loans aimed at...
Produced, edited, and reported by Jessica Hagerty, Cabrini College, Radnor, Pa. 19087 USA, with assistance from Christina Michaluk, Vickie Papageorge, Grayce Turnbach, and Diana Vilares....
This video shows our visit to a village 90 miles outside of Bangalore (India) where a "Microfinance" company is making small business loans (about $200USD)...
Microfinance institutions appear to have defied the global economic slump as a lifeline out of poverty to those considered unbankable. Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons reports...