Economic Development
Microfinance and the Backlash
An excerpt from the new edition of Small Loans, Big Dreams on microfinance since the Nobel.
An excerpt from the new edition of Small Loans, Big Dreams on microfinance since the Nobel.
By combining the characteristics of small and nimble organizations with those that have successfully scaled, can we have our impact and our numbers too?
New financial tech companies need to adopt a shared value or triple-bottom-line approach.
Part of a special series on scaling mobile health initiatives.
Kenya is about to become a world leader in mobile microfinance.
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.
Hybrid approaches present an opportunity to achieve both greater social impact as well as greater business benefits.
The microcredit industry needs to be regulated through policies that address high interest rates and abusive loan recovery practices.
The Grameen Foundation’s Bankers Without Borders initiative applies skills-based volunteering to poverty alleviation.