Tag - Microfinance

Microfinance and the informal economy under COVID-19

by Stephen Taylor

June 24, 2020

There is mounting evidence that micro-credit plays a valuable role in improving the lives of people in need (Credit: PWRDF/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

Fortnightly links: micro-credit, revenge post-ISIS, an aging population, and more

by Terence Wood, Sachini Muller

January 18, 2019

Rural Timor Leste (Credit: Dr Kathryn Anne Cornwall)

Women’s empowerment and microfinance: key challenges, lessons and a way forward

by Saba Mebrahtu Habte, Sara Niner

November 8, 2017

Focusing on the ‘impact’ in impact investing

by Priyanka Sunder

May 29, 2017

Savings passbook, India (McKay Savage/Flickr CC BY 2.0)

Microfinance and India’s demonetisation: uncomfortable bedfellows?

by Tara Davda

May 12, 2017

Women in Malawi have improved livelihoods through the financial support of the VSLA (image: Joshua Estey/CARE)

More than credit – giving savings the benefit

by Michelle Lettie

October 20, 2015

New evidence on microfinance

by Terence Wood

April 23, 2015

Women’s entrepreneurship works better with friends

by Ashlee Betteridge

August 12, 2014

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