The season of giving has inspired some to look for flickers of hope in the ashes of the economic disaster. Naturally, the holiday charity du jour was microfinance: a community-based system of ...

In international microfinance, small loans are made to help people in developing countries lift themselves out of poverty. This concept also works domestically. In the U.S., nonprofit microfinance ...

The size of the microlending industry has nearly halved from Rs30,000 crore, but has shown some pick-up due to growth in business outside Andhra Pradesh. Photo: Rituparna Banerjee/Mint Mumbai: Three ...

Government funded not-for-profit lender Microfinance Ireland supported almost 1,000 new jobs last year through loans to small business. Figures published by the lender showed 397 loans, amounting to ...

Small businesses avail loans at low rates under Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana, which PM Modi expected would create jobs. Monideepa Banerjee gets you the ground report from Kolkata.