microfinance

Current financial service models conflate women with ‘family’, considering them merely an avenue to pursue social welfare.

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus talks about what it will take to create a just and more equal world, and the power of individuals to bring about this change.

The autonomy, or at least the opinion, of women in financial decisions affects the bottom line of MFIs.

Financial inclusion is one of the most effective accelerators of economic participation by women; it is therefore important to design products that help women overcome barriers to access and inclusion.

This article features insights from a series of experiments in India that explored how microfinance can be refined to strengthen its beneficial impact for the world’s poorest women.