Microfinance

Ujjivan Financial Services, one of India’s leading urban poor-focused microfinance institutions, has raised Rupees 127.9 Crores (USD 25.5 Million) in its fifth round of equity funding. Two new Foreign Institutional Investors FMO (Netherlands Developm…

Moving Financial Inclusion Beyond Microfinance David Roodman, the author of “Due Diligence: An Impertinent Inquiry into Microfinance” and Milford Bateman, the author of “Why Doesn’t Microfinance Work? The Destructive Rise of Loc…

Social enterprises in microfinance By M. S Sriram The microfinance sector has multiple forms of organisations, with multiple orientations carrying out business. On the face of it, they do not look all that different in form and the way their services a…

Yesterday, Credit Suisse and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship released a new report titled ” Investing for impact : How social entrepreneurship is redefining the meaning of return” at the World Economic Forum being being h…