Anne Perkins offers a historical look at microfinance, placing the work Barclays will do in Katine in context guardian.co.uk Article historyKatine microfinance history  Customers in Bangladesh repaying microloans. Photograph: Karen KasmauskiIn 1974, an economics lect...
business24-7Some 30 years ago, economics professor Muhammad Yunus made his first loan of $27 (Dh100) to a group of 42 women so they could expand their bamboo furniture-making business.After the success of his initial loan, Yunus saw that such a small amount of money cou...
Earth & SkyScience radio heard 10 million times daily. Web community where your voice matters.Microcredit catching on, says ‘banker to poor’Program #5479 of the Earth & Sky Radio Series with hosts Deborah Byrd, Joel Block,# Lindsay Patterson and Jorge Salaz...
by Diana Yang NEWS WIRENews Wire: MicroFinance Transparency to Publicize Microfinance Institution Rates & FeesCategory: Interest RatesBALI, July 28 - In an effort to head off a potential crisis in the fast-expanding microfinance industry, its leaders are adopting global...
The ForumAmy DalrympleMOORHEAD - Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus received three standing ovations this morning from a sold-out crowd at Concordia College.Yunus, who won the Nobel Peace Price in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank, delivered the keynote address for the 20th...
The Forumby Amy DalrympleGetting a Nobel Peace Prize was easy, Muhammad Yunus said Saturday to a sold-out crowd at Concordia College.All the founder of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank had to do was study traditional banking principles and do the opposite."Conventional banks l...
By Richard Harris The future of the microfinance industry will be in the spotlight in Bali this week at the Asia-Pacific Microcredit Summit, where delegates will debate whether the commercialisation of lending to entrepreneurs in developing nations will help or hinder t...
FT.Com (Financial Times) UK Microfinance institutions urgently need to improve management and corporate governance to cope with growing competition and a flood of capital that threatens to erode lending standards, a think-tank warns in a report published today.Born of p...
Major leaders of the global microfinance movement gathered this week at the Microcredit Summit Campaign in Bali, Indonesia to discuss some of the pressing issues that have affected the microfinance sector over the past year. A major issue of debate among Summit particip...
Reuters IndiaGENEVA, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The global credit crisis is not making it harder for poor-country entrepreneurs to access the tiny loans they need to start and grow businesses, banking executives said on Thursday.Microfinance -- which became famous when Banglades...
