The FINANCIAL — A new study from IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has found that external risks, security concerns, and over-indebtedness are perceived as the most serious challenges facing the ...

While exploring a new destination is often the driving force behind travel decisions, an increasing number of globetrotters are also considering the impact of their travels during the planning process ...

At the intersection of finance and social consciousness at Tufts is the Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Fund (OTMF), which gains profits from investing in small businesses and uses the money it earns to ...

(KUTV) — Photojournalist Robin Pendergrast recently returned from Uganda after serving a six-day philanthropic mission with the Microfinance Alliance Africa Projects Foundation (MAAPF). Deacon Don ...

Lately, microfinance has been attracting attention for all the wrong reasons. The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship started off here March 30 with a discussion of what lessons social ...

While working at one of the biggest financial institutions in the world, Kimberly Summe was thinking small. Last year, as a lawyer at Lehman Brothers Inc., Summe developed an idea for a pro bono ...

The Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (MSMEDA) has signed a EGP 300 million microfinance agreement with Reefy Microfinance Enterprise Services Co., according to a statement. The ...

In a recent interview with the Khmer Times, Sunniya Durrani-Jamal, the Asian Development Bank’s country director for Cambodia, noted that ever-growing household debt was approaching worrying levels.