You may have heard of microfinance, but what it actually is and what the popular perception of what it is are often two different things. Microfinance began in 1974 when Muhammad Yunus started Grameen ...

At the beginning of my sophomore year, I was fairly confident that I wasn’t the only Georgetown student that was stuck between the dual aspirations of a career in business or working in development.

The success of microfinance in Mexico has led some experts to criticize entrepreneurs there for placing too high a premium on profits, reports The New York Times. The article focuses on Compartamos, a ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - In the shantytowns that surround Brazil's cities, plenty of peddlers and vendors say they could use a small loan. Sign up here. The trouble for microfinance lenders -- who believe ...

May 15 (Reuters) - IndusInd Bank said on Thursday that an internal audit of its microfinance business found that a sum of 6.74 billion rupees ($79 million) was incorrectly recorded as interest over ...