Resilience Meets Disaster Economics
Investing to stop disasters before they start can save lives and money.
Microfinance
Financial services for people who lack access to money
How to Ask the Right Questions
Who is the target population for a microcredit intervention? Your answer will depend largely on where you sit: Academics and microfinance institutions will be interested in different groups of people.
Imagine Trying to Get a Loan Without a Financial Identity
InVenture enables people in India and Kenya to send their financial data via SMS and get a simple financial overview of their monetary lives.
Remixing Microfinance
Microfinance has tended to grow by faithful replication of well-established models; it is now time to experiment with hybrid models that bring together the best features of each.
Development Controversy a Sign of Sophistication
Public debate about two prominent poverty-alleviation programs shows that over the past 15 years international development has become much more scientific.
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Social Enterprises and Growth: Lessons from the Microcredit Debate
Ambition to scale makes MFIs more financially driven.
Rio+20: Is a $513 Billion Down Payment Enough?
Advances in reducing poverty, environmental protection, and other global issues threaten the status quo—a report from Rio+20.
Mainstreaming Gender Lens Investing
Investing in women is an opportunity, not a constraint—and one that can accelerate change for everyone.
The Distortion Risk in Impact Investing
How do we ensure that philanthropic subsidies in impact investing are put to productive use?
The Legacy of Muhammad Yunus
A new documentary film provides a tributary but simplistic portrait of the father of microfinance.
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