10th Anniversary Essays
Money Is Never Enough
One of 16 special essays on how the field of social innovation has evolved and what challenges remain ahead.
Tag: Microfinance
Measuring Social Impact
How to Ask the Right Questions
Who is the target population for a microcredit intervention? Your answer will depend largely on where you sit: Academics and microfinance institutions will be interested in different groups of people.
Economic Development
Imagine Trying to Get a Loan Without a Financial Identity
InVenture enables people in India and Kenya to send their financial data via SMS and get a simple financial overview of their monetary lives.
Microfinance
All-Mobile Microfinance
Kenya is about to become a world leader in mobile microfinance.
Nonprofit Management
Demystifying Scaling: Part 2
A five-part series on developing a common framework for nonprofits to scale for impact.
Microfinance
Remixing Microfinance
Microfinance has tended to grow by faithful replication of well-established models; it is now time to experiment with hybrid models that bring together the best features of each.
Impact Investing
Achieving Takeoff
Part VI in Omidyar Network’s case for a sector-based approach to impact investing.
Impact Investing
Sectors, Not Just Firms
Part I in Omidyar Network’s case for a sector-based approach to impact investing.
Microfinance
Social Enterprises and Growth: Lessons from the Microcredit Debate
Ambition to scale makes MFIs more financially driven.
Podcast
Economic Development
Mobile and Branchless Banking
In this audio interview, Sheela Sethuraman speaks with one of branchless banking's greatest proponents and the co-founder of Eko India Financial Services, Abhishek Sinha.