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 ...

In the first year of the Schwab Charitable Microfinance Guarantee Program, donors set aside $10-million from their gift funds to guarantee small loans to poor entrepreneurs in developing countries. As ...

In Tijuana’s red-light district, thousands of women rely on sex work to survive. A study led by researchers at San Diego State University finds a program that combines economic support and education ...

A decade ago, Unitus set out to accelerate the commercial investment in microfinance—to prove that banks and other investors could earn a return on their loans while helping impoverished people move ...

Jerry lives unhoused in Santa Clara County. Not long ago, he had managed to build a microbusiness as a powerwasher—a real one, with local clients. Despite public misconceptions, many unhoused people ...

Microfinance has been touted as a miracle cure for poverty in the global south. The reality has been a lot messier. Illustration by Adrià Fruitós. Yabom was lucky. She heard a flat tone, then an ...

BlueOrchard Finance, a Switzerland-based impact investment manager, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have entered a $50 million risk-sharing agreement for microfinance coverage in ADB’s developing ...