For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Participants in the Global Islamic Microfinance Forum at the Intercontinental Hotel in ...

When PAULINE NDIRANGU who is in her late 30s joined Faulu Kenya 15 years ago, the term microfinance was alien to many. Today, thanks to her efforts, Kenyans understand the term more and many have ...

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In Kenya, Habitat’s Terwilliger Center worked with Kenya Women Microfinance Bank (KWFT) to develop the housing microfinance product Nyumba Smart Loan. The report, which surveyed 1,250 women clients of ...

Microfinance lending is often lauded as a key tool in reducing poverty at the bottom of the income pyramid. But in Kenya, critics say it has played a part in stoking violent anti-government unrest.

Matt Flannery, the co-founder and ex-CEO of nonprofit microlending site Kiva.org, announced Wednesday that he has raised $1.4 million in seed funding for his latest social venture, a mobile-based ...