When a story on microfinance appears in major media outlets, the effect on the public image of the sector can be dramatic...

"The government needs some action, so that up to 67 billion dollars in the Indian microfinance market collapse...

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...

Microfinance is basically when money is lent on a smaller scale to people by organisations called microfinance institutions...

Let’s take a trip back in time, shall we The year: 1973...

Of all the countries employing the practice of microfinance, perhaps no country needs it more than Mexico...

The microfinance industry in India is growing by the day According to one recent study by Intellecap, the 60 largest microfinance institutions in India have 10 million clients...

Maybe it was in a finance class in college Or maybe it was on the evening news...

On the west coast of India, overlooking a deep natural harbor, sits the city of Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay...

Last year, while headlines read of a fallen Wall Street and a crumbling Main Street, people in developing economies worldwide were being slowly pushed deeper into poverty and starvation...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The world is in the midst of a banking revolution that has nothing to do with exotic financial engineering...

What is microfinance Microfinance means providing very poor families with very small loans (microcredit) to help them engage in productive activities or grow their tiny businesses...