When the rich suffer, so do the poor. Or so goes the trickle-down theory. It turns out, though, that the spreading of global financial pain is far from simple. The microfinance industry, for instance, ...

New research from Cambodia challenges the microfinance industry’s assertions that its loans help farmers to resist the impacts of climate change. In fact, the research argues, microfinance undermines ...

New York, United States , July 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Global Microfinance Market Size is to Grow from USD 215.68 Billion in 2023 to USD 590.74 Billion by 2033, at a Compound Annual Growth ...

An issue has been swirling around Cambodia’s microfinance circles for some months. Put simply, will poor Cambodians be able to use “movable assets” – motorbikes, cars, livestock or agricultural ...

When last year’s Nobel Peace Prize went to Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank, microfinance became the buzzword among economists the world over. Applauded as a champion of the poor, Yunus had, over ...

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Dublin, Jan. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Microfinance Market By Provider and End User: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2021-2030" report has been added to ...

Muhammad Yunus — Bangladeshi economist, Nobel laureate, father of microfinance — may or may not have been fired this week. This is the latest in a string of problems in the microfinance world. Here's ...

Restructuring the country’s microfinance architecture will gather pace this year, Governor of Bank of Ghana Dr. Johnson Pandit Asiama has insisted, urging commercial banks to scale up export finance ...

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