Lately, microfinance has been attracting attention for all the wrong reasons. The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship started off here March 30 with a discussion of what lessons social ...

The Bihar assembly has passed a bill to regulate microfinance institutions, mandating state-level registration for lenders and establishing special courts to handle cases of coercive lending practices ...

While scandals rock the microfinance industry, Christian nonprofits diversify their efforts to help the poor. Microfinance may be falling victim to its own success. Since starting in the 1970s, ...

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 ...

The Bihar Micro Finance Institutions (Regulation of Money Lending and Prevention of Coercive Actions) Bill, 2026, mandates that lenders must obtain prior permission from the state Finance Department ...

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Hit by the credit crunch, lenders anticipate fewer loans to the poor. When Mama Atiya’s husband died in 2006, her in-laws claimed the family property, a patriarchal tradition in the Democratic ...

[Courtesy Maria Lenis] College sophomore Jose Palau interviews entrepreneurs who own and operate an Internet kiosk in the village of Thiruvallur, in southern India. The project was made possible by ...

In a major step toward strengthening Nigeria’s digital payment ecosystem, Strowallet Digital Services Limited has unveiled its card issuing infrastructure, designed for fintech startups, microfinance ...

Bihar assembly passes bill to regulate microfinance institutions, mandating state-level registration and curbing coercive ...