Economic Development
Microfinance and the Backlash
An excerpt from the new edition of Small Loans, Big Dreams on microfinance since the Nobel.
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Measurement & Evaluation
The New Double Bottom Line
By combining the characteristics of small and nimble organizations with those that have successfully scaled, can we have our impact and our numbers too?
Socially Responsible Business
Financial Disruption and Giving Back from the Start
New financial tech companies need to adopt a shared value or triple-bottom-line approach.
Health
Scale Can Happen: The MOTECH Experience
Part of a special series on scaling mobile health initiatives.
Microfinance
All-Mobile Microfinance
Kenya is about to become a world leader in mobile microfinance.
Business
Preserving the Meaning of Social Enterprise
Nonprofit and for-profit enterprises that prioritize social impact and financial sustainability need to band together and make the collective voice of social enterprise exponentially more powerful.
Food
How Businesses Can Increase Food Access for the Poor
Hybrid approaches present an opportunity to achieve both greater social impact as well as greater business benefits.
Microfinance
Microfinance Needs Regulation
The microcredit industry needs to be regulated through policies that address high interest rates and abusive loan recovery practices.
Microfinance
Crowdsourcing Microfinance
The Grameen Foundation’s Bankers Without Borders initiative applies skills-based volunteering to poverty alleviation.