The Women’s Microfinance Initiative works to provide the capital and training necessary for women in low-income environments to succeed. A group of women in the Washington D.C. area pooled their resources and started the non-profit microfinance company in order to make small loans to impoverished women in developing nations, who use the money to build [...]
Three female Entrepreneurs request for a loan for pig rearing
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A senior microfinance specialist of CGAP, Syed Hashemi is introducing a big microfinance program in Bangladesh, namely BRAC. BRAC is an amazing example of how one combines microfinance with other development efforts.
Syed Hashemi looks both at similarities and differences between Grameen Bank and BRAC multi-sector approach. Subscribe in iTunes. Microfinance Podcast.
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Microfinance is a major instrument for entrepreneurs and individuals to escape poverty. Oikocredit and ING joined their forces in 2004 to best support institutions around the globe with financing and technical assistance. Oikocredit is a socially responsible investment opportunity that is today recognised as on of the world’s largest source of private finance for Microfinance, [...]
Want to learn more about microfinance and how Opportunity International works? This microfinance video gives a brief overview of the system that is positively changing lives around the world.
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Meet a MicroPlace microfinance borrower from Cambodia
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MicroPlace lets Americans invest in microfinance. Your small change can make a big change in someone’s life.
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Professor Bhagwan Chowdhry describes this growing global phenomenon that is bringing hope to emerging markets.
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Watch this 90 second video from Unitus’s President and CEO Geoff Davis and Board Chair Mike Murray to learn how your donation or holiday gift in the name of a friend or family member will help alleviate poverty.
Microfinance products such as savings accounts, microcredit loans (usually $50 to $150), and health insurance empower the poor [...]
Vikram Akula, founder and CEO of SKS Microfinance, launched the company in 1998 to offer small loans to very poor borrowers. Some 10 years later, SKS has become India’s fastest growing microfinance institution (MFI), with more than two million borrowers. In the next two years, Akula would like SKS Microfinance, whose backers include venture capitalists [...]
