A new microfinance loan program from Schwab Charitable allows investors to double-dip their charitable giving assets. The San Francisco company, the charitable giving arm of Charles Schwab Corp., said ...

A major argument in favor of microfinance is that the poor who live in areas without banking services will gain higher returns on investments and increase their assets when provided with credit. But a ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Citi Foundation today announced a three-year US$11.2 million international grant program, in partnership with the SEEP Network to advance the integration of microfinance ...

The FINANCIAL — The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors has raised the limit of an existing microfinance risk participation and guarantee program by an additional $100 million in ...

Toronto, ON, May 14, 2008 - The MasterCard Foundation launched its Scholars Program today by awarding grants totaling $600,000 to six leading microfinance training institutes. The program will fund ...

Catching the last plane from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, just hours before a massive earthquake struck in 2010, left Gergens Polynice with a mixture of gratitude and helplessness. Fortunately, his family ...

Toronto, ON, May 14, 2008 – The MasterCard Foundation launched its Scholars Program today by awarding grants totaling $600,000 to six leading microfinance training institutes. The program will fund ...

Women and families in rural areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been beaten down physically and mentally by years of war, poverty, and violence, but researchers suggest that a baby ...

The Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 50, No. 3 (Summer 2016), pp. 305-318 (14 pages) Although the microfinance movement has developed rapidly in Bangladesh over the last three decades, there has been ...