Recent revelations about the role of Nobel Prize winner Muhummad Yunus in the alleged misuse of $100 million by the Grameen Banks (and the cover-up of that misallocation) have begun to provoke overdue ...

For three decades, microfinance institutions have given out small loans to the world's poor--mostly women--and amassed hundreds if not thousands of case studies showing that the loans help alleviate ...

PUNE, India, Feb. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ --Global Microfinance Market size was valued at USD 235.21 Billion in 2025 and is projected to grow at a robust CAGR of 12.5% from 2025 to 2032, reaching ...

New research from Cambodia challenges the microfinance industry’s assertions that its loans help farmers to resist the impacts of climate change. In fact, the research argues, microfinance undermines ...

Thirty years ago, it was widely thought that the perfect solution to unemployment and poverty in developing countries had been found in the shape of microfinance, the provision of tiny microloans used ...

What the West Misses About China’s Nuclear Build-up Research commissioned by the Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA) and carried out by the M-CRIL ratings agency signals a retreat from the claim ...

NBFC-MFIs topped the microfinance portfolio in FY23 with Rs 1.30 lakh crore portfolio size in comparison to banks (Rs 1.20 lakh crore), SFBs (Rs 58,431 crore), NBFCs (Rs 29,664 crore) and ...

Microfinance has been hailed as a boon to the developing world. By extending small amounts of credit to would-be entrepreneurs, the model is said to raise incomes, reduce unemployment, and empower ...

Squaring the circle. A microfinance self help group meet in a village near Pune, Maharashtra. Oxfam Australia, CC BY The introduction of hard-nosed private sector investment and the age-old pressures ...

When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus in 2006 for his concept of microfinance, it brought what began as a local policy experiment in the 1970s to global ...

One November morning in Assam’s Charaideo district, a man set up camp outside the deputy commissioner’s office, threatening to not leave until his request was fulfilled. Mukul Khaklary, 35, who had a ...