Q: Let's start with a definition. What is microfinance? Tony Sheldon: Microfinance is financial services for poor and low-income communities, people who have been excluded from the mainstream ...

Dhaka—In August, Bangladeshi police broke up a ring of human organ dealers operating in Joypurhat, a district in the north of the country. Investigators say that three local “brokers” preyed on a ...

A microfinance institution or micro-finance lender gives small, unsecured loans to people from poorer sections of the society. Usually, the maximum amount of loan that a micro-finance lender gives is ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

“Economics is a meaningless subject,” Mohamed Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, microfinance pioneer, and rogue economist told Time magazine a few months ago. Little did he realise that he would ...

Rodrigo Canales: Part of what makes microfinance, or microcredit, rather, so appealing is this idea that we allow poor people to work themselves out of poverty. We loan them the little bit that gets ...