Providing small loans to help the poor start or expand businesses is an effective strategy for helping communities ravaged by the recession as well as expanding the overall economy, according to ...

Dublin, March 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Microlending Global Market Report 2024" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global microlending market is experiencing a ...

In the three decades since Muhammad Yunus came up with the idea of microloans for women to start businesses as a way of combating poverty in the world's poorest societies, it has attracted widespread ...

What better way to draw attention to the power of microlending to lift millions out of poverty than this year’s award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus. Yunus and his ...

In addition to crowdfunding, microlending is a possible alternative for small businesses seeking alternative forms of investment. Many entrepreneurs believe that microlending is only a funding option ...

If a poor woman in Nicaragua or Honduras can leverage a $50 loan into an egg-selling business to support her family, how about leveraging that kind of microlending system into a self-supporting ...

It's been called crowdfunding, micropatronage, microlending, and micro-VC. But it's the new way to invest and to receive capital: customers and investors willing to pay small amounts of money to ...

Rachel Cook was working as a futures trader when she had a revelation: Making money is great, but helping others do so is better. After reading an article on how microloans can benefit businesswomen ...

DETROIT (WWJ) --Huntington Bank (NASDAQ: HBAN) announced a microlending partnership with the Michigan Economic Development Corp., the Pure Michigan Micro Lending Initiative, backed by a Huntington ...

Do you have a favorite coffee shop or dressmaker in your neighborhood? Now you can do a lot more than simply rave about your favorite local business to a friend: microloan giant, Kiva, is bringing ...

You don’t have to search for long to see examples of game designers focusing their talents on games that do social good. WeTopia, a popular Farmville-style Facebook game that lets users send donations ...