Emmanuel Faber, chief executive officer of Groupe Danone (second from left), and Muhammad Yunus (second from right) at the launching ceremony of the Danone Microfinance Foundation in Beijing in March.

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

Babyloan and Total have teamed up on the very first microcredit crowdfunding platform specializing in access to energy. The partnership will give the public a way to fund energy access projects and ...

2004-07-03 04:00:00 PDT Kangyi Village, Burma-- For Aye Than, the tiny loan begat a small boat to rent out, which begat a sewing machine, which begat four water buffalo, 9 acres of land, 50 ducks, ...

In early May, China’s main P2P microfinance organization Wokai announced that it will temporarily close its operations. This organization was solely directed at lending money to impoverished farmers ...

Bratislava/Abu Dhabi - Habitat for Humanity Europe Middle East and Africa received the first prize from the Arab Gulf Programme for Development (AGFUND) for its innovative microfinance project to ...

Projects to fight climate change are being designed all around the world. But only five per cent of them can be financed with the current international funds, which means resources have to be used ...

While working at one of the biggest financial institutions in the world, Kimberly Summe was thinking small. Last year, as a lawyer at Lehman Brothers Inc., Summe developed an idea for a pro bono ...