Discover the differences between microfinance and macrofinance, including their scope, purpose, and impact on individuals vs. whole economies.

Microfinance loan stress hits a four-quarter low in September 2025, with delinquencies decreasing significantly, signaling ...

In recent years, microfinance has come under the spotlight for the wrong reason. The darling of international donor agencies for at least two decades, this market-led approach to poverty alleviation ...

The RBI has flagged rising stress in microfinance loans, urging NBFCs to balance growth with sound practices, even as overall ...

Micro entrepreneurs in developing countries who take out loans from microfinance organizations as members of a group are more satisfied with their experience than individual borrowers. And ...

I spent the first five years of my career trying to understand everything about the Grameen Bank and its founder, Professor Muhammad Yunus, who would go on to share the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. I spent ...

Far from being a panacea, small loans add to poverty and undermine people by saddling them with unsustainable debt, argues anthropologist Jason Hickel I’m always amazed at how many students show up ...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) advises microfinance institutions to closely monitor financial stress as loan disbursements ...

The Chartered Institute of Credit Management (CICM) is backing the Bank of Ghana’s microfinance sector reforms ahead of the New Year Debt Recovery School which comes off between January and February ...

DJT Microfinance has secured funding of Rs 130 crore from public sector banks and leading non-banking financial companies to ...