EMW 2012 Archive

Jean Luc Perron of Grameen Credit Agricole says that there are thousands of potential social businesses, in developed as well as developing countries. Access to health, energy, education:

Yunus is not opposed to anybody making money; but there is a ‘green zone': cost of fund +10-15%. This is one way to allow profit while maintaining social

Graduation pilots start with recognition that poverty is multi-faceted; and we stand on the shoulders of giants who have developed this understanding – BRAC in Bangladesh notably. Poverty

MFIs have promoted many products, but when you look at the numbers, one product takes the lion’s share — the plain vanilla loan, with increasing amounts at each

There has been a concern among all of us that microfinance may not be delivering promised results.  It’s become apparent that we sold microfinance completely the wrong way,