By Jaclyn Schiff, special correspondent When Seattle resident Fortunato Vega walked into Starbucks one Saturday about three years ago, he didn’t expect…
Part of the reason many farming communities in Africa are poor is because they lack ready access to valuable information…
That, in a nutshell, was the question posed to a panel of microfinance experts at a Seattle forum earlier this…
The anti-poverty scheme known as microfinance is in crisis, or maybe several crises. The political sacking of Muhammad Yunus as…
The popular anti-poverty scheme of providing small loans and other financial services to poor people, generally known as microfinance, is…
There is a crisis in the anti-poverty scheme microfinance, centered in India but reverberating globally. I posted on the local…
Is Microfinance the New Subprime? That’s the provocative title of a new article in the Harvard Business Review by financial…
Seattle is big on microfinance, but what is it? The short answer is that microfinance is a set of financial…
Mobile phoneFlickr, by 96dpi There’s a lot of excitement and activity around the idea of using mobile phones to improve…
A new perspective (and pitch for support) on microfinance from the Grameen Foundation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brXbTahFSaY&feature=player_embedded#!