Q: Let's start with a definition. What is microfinance? Tony Sheldon: Microfinance is financial services for poor and low-income communities, people who have been excluded from the mainstream ...

Dhaka—In August, Bangladeshi police broke up a ring of human organ dealers operating in Joypurhat, a district in the north of the country. Investigators say that three local “brokers” preyed on a ...

Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for grassroots efforts to lift millions out of poverty. Here are some key facts about ...

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MUMBAI, India — Long heralded as a way to lift the downtrodden out of poverty, microfinance is under a cloud. The stories of lives being changed by a $27 microloan and picture-perfect scenes of ...

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The Karnataka government, under the stewardship of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, has turned the spotlight on Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs) in the state—including the holding of a high-level meeting ...

In an investigation into one microfinance recipient in South Africa, Khadija Sharife asks whether microfinance is helping families out of poverty or merely plunging them into debt Poverty at home when ...

Rodrigo Canales: Part of what makes microfinance, or microcredit, rather, so appealing is this idea that we allow poor people to work themselves out of poverty. We loan them the little bit that gets ...