http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Elisabeth+Rhyne Finances Elisabeth Rhyne Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=669047&ca=Finances Dear Ms.Warren, What an important challenge you face in bringing the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau into being! Although you're reputed to be a woman not easily daunted, it might still be comforting to know that you are not alone. At the recent Alliance for Financial Inclusion meeting of b... Finances Elisabeth Rhyne Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=669049&ca=Finances When a story on microfinance appears in major media outlets, the effect on the public image of the sector can be dramatic. That's why last Friday's article in the Wall Street Journal, "India's Major Crisis in Microlending," requires a response. The story covers a microfinance crisis in the southern... Finances Elisabeth Rhyne Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=568678&ca=Finances Academics who wield sophisticated statistical tools to assess complex social phenomena like microfinance give answers with more precision, but they don't always spend much time explaining their results to a broader public. And the press likes to give stories hard-hitting headlines whenever they can.... Advice Elisabeth Rhyne Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=435659&ca=Advice In a rather remarkable collective mea culpa, the G-20 leaders, following their emergency summit in November, issued a joint diagnosis of “the roots of the current crisis” in world financial markets: Market participants sought higher yields without an adequate appreciation of the risks and failed to... Business Elisabeth Rhyne Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=435672&ca=Business WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The world is in the midst of a banking revolution that has nothing to do with exotic financial engineering. It's in microfinance, or the provision of financial services to poor people worldwide. To most people, microfinance means microcredit, or lending to the owners of v...