IFC is working with 110 MFIs in more than 50 countries. Its investee clients had an outstanding portfolio of nearly 8 million loans as of June 2011, worth just under $12.6 billion. Yet the feeling ...

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 ...

HONG KONG, Aug 23 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Microfinance is making India's big banks look bad. Small lenders that help the poor buy everything from bicycles to sewing machines are back and growing at ...

Under the expanded programme, participants will receive a comprehensive package of support, including skills training, apprenticeships, entrepreneurship development and access to microfinance ...

Kanakapura is a township of about 50,000 on the fringes of Bangalore. It’s known more for the road that leads to it: Kanakapura Road, on which an Art of Living Center is located. But it’s also the ...

KABUL (Reuters) - In a dimly lit room at the back of an Afghan house, 21-year-old Zahara is crouched on a plank of wood weaving a large carpet on a loom that she was able to buy using a microfinance ...