Boston, MA. - April 30, 2009 - ACCION(R) International, a pioneer and leader in microfinance, today announced that it has been awarded the Inter-American Development Bank's "Juscelino Kubitschek Award ...

An increase in the proportion of women accessing microfinance services by just 15% could potentially reduce gender inequality, as measured by the Gender Inequality Index, by half in the average ...

Managing Director, IBILE Microfinance Bank, Adegboyega Kazeem, operates within the intersect of financial exclusion, environmental concerns, energy challenges and other socio-economic, political ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the intersection of tech and social progress in Asia. In developing economies such as Myanmar, microfinance is often ...

The Global Banking & Finance Review Awards programme has officially opened nominations for Best New Islamic Microfinance ...

A new research paper finds that districts more exposed to a contraction in microfinance lending saw a decline in education ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will release the NationalMicrofinance Development Strategy in the second quarter of the year. The document is expected to outline modalities for devel-oping the ...

The Global Banking & Finance Review Awards programme has officially opened nominations for Best Islamic Microfinance Company ...