The Microcredit Bank Ordinance 2025, drafted to establish a specialised microcredit bank to expand access to capital for small and emerging entrepreneurs under a social business framework, could ...

May 2 (Reuters) - Microfinance institutions in Africa hope to emulate the success and growth of the industry in Asia, and could offer a lifeline and escape from poverty for millions of people living ...

Savings and Development, Vol. 45 (2021), pp. 1-17 (17 pages) The study examined the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on households’ income and consumption – two economic measures used in measuring poverty.

Perhaps the single most popular idea in foreign aid over the past few decades has been microcredit for the world’s poor. Small loans to poor people, it was suggested, would empower them to become ...

Bangladesh gave the world the model of modern microfinance, proving that poor people are creditworthy. The success of the Grameen Bank reshaped development finance globally. Now, the interim ...

Research commissioned by the Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA) and carried out by the M-CRIL ratings agency signals a retreat from the claim that there is a verifiable connection between ...

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 ...

, Jan. 9 -- The Credit and Development Forum (CDF), a national association and network of microfinance institutions, has said the proposed Microcredit Bank will be a social business, strictly ...

Rigol, Natalia, and Benjamin N. Roth. "Loan Officers Impede Graduation From Microcredit: Evidence from a Large Microfinance Institution." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 29427, October 2021. (Revise ...

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 ...