For three decades, microfinance institutions have given out small loans to the world's poor--mostly women--and amassed hundreds if not thousands of case studies showing that the loans help alleviate ...

Microfinance is the delivery of financial services in small amounts – mainly loans but increasingly savings and insurance – to entrepreneurs who typically do not have access to mainstream or ...

CHENNAI: Microfinance sector recorded a 21% growth in FY23 at Rs 3,51,521 crore when compared with the previous year at Rs 2,89,845 crore. A quarterly report by Sa-Dhan, an association of impact ...

Nairobi artisans display wares for sale. Skeptics say there is not enough data to prove that microfinance transforms lives on a large scale. Photo/FILE For three decades, microfinance institutions ...

HOUSTON, March 7, 2022 – In partnership with the India Studies program at the University of Houston, Asia Society Texas welcomed three experts to discuss the microfinance industry in urban India, ...