by Diana Yang NEWS WIRENews Wire: MicroFinance Transparency to Publicize Microfinance Institution Rates & FeesCategory: Interest RatesBALI, July 28 - In an effort to head off a potential crisis in the fast-expanding microfinance industry, its leaders are adopting global...
Major leaders of the global microfinance movement gathered this week at the Microcredit Summit Campaign in Bali, Indonesia to discuss some of the pressing issues that have affected the microfinance sector over the past year. A major issue of debate among Summit particip...
Reuters IndiaGENEVA, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The global credit crisis is not making it harder for poor-country entrepreneurs to access the tiny loans they need to start and grow businesses, banking executives said on Thursday.Microfinance -- which became famous when Banglades...
The Daily StarNobel laureate Muhammad Yunus (C) speaks as Steve Gunderson (L), president and CEO, Council on Foundations and Rick Warren (R), Pastor, Saddleback Church listen, at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in New York.The Daily StarNobel laureate Muhammad Yunus...
Microcredit: Economic successThere's another economic story besides the crash-down effects of policies relying on superwealth, greed and speculation. It's the success of the microcredit system.Once written off by banks, many of the world's poorest people now have a cred...
EditorialPrepare bailout package for the world's poorNOBEL Laureate Muhammad Yunus, alone among all participants at the World Economic Forum in Davos, has spoken of the need for a safety net for the world's poor. His remarks, made against the backdrop of the on-going gl...
Interview When he was a child Barack watched his parent committed to freeing the world from poverty.The Nobel Yunus: “Obama is a son of microcreditâ€The “banker to the poor†tells of the same engagement made by the Us president’s mother...
"The Girl Effect on Development" ranked fourth in session sign-ups among all panels at this year's World Economic Forum. In a meeting where people were tripping over each other to hear ideas about how to move beyond this economic crisis, CEOs and heads of state wanted t...
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has called for a shakeup in the existing financial system and replacing it with a new inclusive one integrating microcredit for the poor, as the global economic turmoil is expected to intensify.The Daily StarNobel laureate Muhammad Yunus ha...
The HinduNEW DELHI: Stating that the current global financial crisis will intensify further, noted economist and Nobel laureate from Bangladesh Muhammad Yunus said on Monday that financial institutions of the world need to be “inclusive.â€The HinduNEW DELHI: ...
