It is a great pleasure to be with you in Vienna today. On behalf of UNRWA's Commissioner-General, Karen AbuZayd, I wish to thank the OPEC Fund for International Development for its generous support to ...

Discover the differences between microfinance and macrofinance, including their scope, purpose, and impact on individuals vs. whole economies.

On December 15th, President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko signed Decree No. 432, which improves the regulation of microfinance ...

Among its activities is an agreement to buy $40 million in excess loan production from SKS Microfinance in India, much as it does with Accion Texas. It also offers SKS customers deposit products and ...

Reactions to my most recently published essay in The Nation, January 2 titled “Still on the Proposed National Microfinance Bank” were fast and furious. Before misconceptions further concretize and ...

As the microfinance sector passes the 150 million customer mark, an intense debate continues over the movement toward greater commercialization of an arena once led by nonprofits. "Microfinance Meets ...

Microfinance in India has traversed a long history since it debuted in the late 1980s as a social banking innovation anchored in informal self-help groups (SHGs). It was mainstreamed as the self-help ...

"The percentage of requests related to illegal actions regarding personal data in the field of microfinance activities has increased significantly - from 17.5% in 2022 to 48% in the past period of ...

Mobile network operators in Belarus to be allowed to engage in microfinance activities. On December 15th, President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko signed Decree No. 432, which im ...

10 March 2008 AMMAN - Jordan is a great research and innovation laboratory for microfinance activities, Mary Ellen Iskenderian, president and chief executive officer of Women's World Banking (WWB) ...