What happens when crowdsourcing is applied to the microfinance sector? Bankers Without Borders, an initiative of the Grameen Foundation, has embraced crowdsourcing—the process of leveraging a large ...

Tiny loans to poor people were seen as a path to prosperity, but they haven’t improved most borrowers’ economic situation.

Since 2003, the Government of Sierra Leone is cooperating with KfW, UNDP, UNCDF and Cordaid in a 5-year programme on “Developing a Sustainable Pro-Poor Financial Sector in Sierra Leone”. The programme ...

Dead livestock in drought-stricken North Eastern province. Rural populations need funds for climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts. File Projects to fight climate change are being designed ...

CHENNAI: Bankers play an important role in making microfinance projects successful, said K Gopal, MD, Tamil Nadu Corporation for Women Development, at the inauguration of the workshop on State Rural ...