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Or the more things change, the more they stay the same... Sometimes it seems as though there is no shortage of proverbs when it comes to...

Recently, I was reading the Economist and came across Charles Keating's obituary. That name means little to most readers outside the US,...

A recent article by the Economist hails a study in Bangladesh by Shahidur Khandker as "the biggest study so far finds that microcredit...

As the microfinance industry has grown, there has been an increasing focus on the non-financial impacts that microfinance institutions...

For years, credit was the driving force behind microfinance. But times have changed. Instead of credit, we now speak of financial...

Every November, the European Microfinance Week (EMW) brings together a high-level group of decision-makers, opinion-leaders and...

See part-one of the blog here. In our previous post, we addressed our first two findings: 1) over-indebtedness stems not only from...

NpM, Platform for Inclusive Finance is a Dutch membership organisation focusing on the promotion of inclusive finance. What the member...

This is part I of a two-part blog, summarizing some of the key findings of an edited volume that has just been released (Guérin I....

It’s a question that comes up at nearly dinner discussion of microfinance: why are the interest rates so high, and how can poor clients...

During European Microfinance Week Bart De Bruyne took the opportunity to interview Mila Bunker, MCPI (Microfinance Council of the...

Interview by B. De Bruyne with E. Javoy (Planet Rating) and D. Rozas. Full disclosure: in addition to being co-author of MIMOSA, Daniel...