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Microfinance - Articles
Financial services for people who lack access to money (more)
Learning, Earning, and Saving
The need for holistic approaches to poverty alleviation for young people in Africa.
Podcast
NewSchools Venture Summit
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Chairman of the House Committee on Education George Miller, address the NewSchools Summit 2010.
Collaborating To Achieve Scaled Impact
How we facilitate collaboration influences breakthroughs in innovation and scale.
Unitus, We Stand; Divide Us, We Fall
An external agency should review the circumstances surrounding the Unitus decision to terminate its 10-year commitment to microfinance.
Review
Hear, Hear for Profits
Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs by Muhammad Yunus
Microfinance’s Next Frontier
LeapFrog Investments aims to insure the poor on a grand scale.
What Exactly Is Social Entrepreneurship in America?
Whether there is a profit motive or not, the notion that business has a role to play in addressing societal issues is at the heart of today’s discourse on social entrepreneurship.
New Frontiers of Financial Inclusion in Africa
Will mobile telephones become the new super highway to connect the poor to the financial grid?
Financing Freedom
Microlending in leprosy colonies frees residents from poverty, shame, and isolation.