Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus was trained in economics but is something of an engineer in his day-to-day work, building bridges between the developed and developing worlds. When a group of ...

It was at the end of a long, dusty road in Guatemala that Mike Galgon, a Seattle tech entrepreneur, became a believer. He met a woman who used a $50 loan to buy a simple metal-bending machine, ...

A KBYU Television production, “Small Treasures: Microcredit and the Future of Poverty,” tells the stories of women across the world who have bettered their lives with the help of loans as small as $10 ...

Rural credit programs in Bangladesh help the poor by providing collateral-free loans or credits at a low cost. In addition, they provide social development programs such as vocational and business ...

Citizens Bank of Canada is offering investors that chance to make the world a better place and make money at the same time with the Shared World term deposit. Citizens Bank of Canada’s Shared World ...

February 2005 When Hameida Abbas Shanto lost her husband in a car accident in 1995, she had no education, no capital and little prospects for success in the business world. Today, she is an ...

Microcredit generally benefits borrowers, according to new research focused on Mexico’s biggest for-profit microlender — but it’s not lifting people out of poverty. In a multi-year, randomized ...

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