We’ve all heard about microfinance, the practice of giving small loans to the poor to boost their small businesses. Muhammed…
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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…