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 ...

The Nation has an interesting post up recapping an antipoverty conference in Philadelphia. Buried at the bottom is a reference to a plan to import the microfinance model from India’s Social for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Baobab Microfinance Bank has concluded the first phase of its Menstrual Hygiene Awareness Project in Ilorin, Kwara State, marking a significant step in its commitment to community-driven social impact ...

Karnataka-based microfinance provider Shri Kshethra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project (SKDRDP) has been adjudged as the overall gold award winner by Ashden, which promotes universal access to ...

NEW DELHI, July 9, 2010: A Credit and Loan Agreement of $300 million equivalent for the Scaling up Sustainable and Responsible Microfinance Project was signed today by the representatives from the ...

The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation rejected its ombudsman’s findings about harm related to investments in ...