You may have heard of microfinance, but what it actually is and what the popular perception of what it is are often two different things. Microfinance began in 1974 when Muhammad Yunus started Grameen ...

Micro entrepreneurs in developing countries who take out loans from microfinance organizations as members of a group are more satisfied with their experience than individual borrowers. And ...

If you are confused by personal finance terms, jargon and calculations, here’s a series to simplify and deconstruct these for ...

Those are some of the findings from research conducted for the 2021-2022 60 Decibels Microfinance Index, aimed at assessing the effectiveness of microfinance practices—by talking to customers. Based ...

People who invest in microcredit loans to help some of the world’s poorest people are finding that nearly all of those recipients of the loans are repaying them, making such charitable giving even ...

Crop failures due to erratic weather and wildfires are leading farmers to take out loans to survive, with their land — and therefore livelihood — as collateral, a new report highlights. Microfinance ...