FOR over four decades, microfinance has been hailed as a revolutionary tool for poverty alleviation. From the villages of Bangladesh to the favelas of Latin America, it promised to transform the unbanked into entrepreneurs and empower women through credit. Yet, as the model has evolved, its soul has been compromised. What began as a humanitarian effort to...
IN THIS fast-changing economic environment, financial literacy has been elevated from a skill to a critical necessity. Nearly two-thirds of Bangladesh鈥檚 population resides in rural areas, where the lack of聽introductory financial knowledge impedes development and perpetuates poverty cycles. Abecedarian financial literacy is still unknown to millions of people living...
MICROFINANCE has long been recognised as a vital tool for combating poverty and empowering low-income populations, particularly in developing countries. By extending small loans to individuals who are often excluded from formal financial systems, microfinance...
MICROFINANCE is welcomed as a revolutionary tool to eradicate poverty, providing financial access for those excluded from traditional banking systems. It emerged with a promise to empower small entrepreneurs and poor people, especially women, by offering them loans to do businesses, secure livelihood and achieve financial independence...
BRAC鈥檚 Microfinance programme has officially launched the 'Livestock Grow Initiative鈥� to ensure financial security and sustainable development for livestock farmers across the country...
Social welfare affairs adviser Sharmeen Soneya Murshid on Sunday called upon all concerned to implement microfinance programmes under one umbrella...
bKash has launched microfinance payment service to help customers pay microfinance loans and savings instalments, said a press release...
Grameen America, the fastest-growing nonprofit microfinance organisation in the United States of America, plans to invest $40 billion of loan capital in underserved women entrepreneurs by 2033, according to a press release...
