Challenges
Microfinance faces several challenges that hinder its growth and social performance. These problems are highlighted through various posts below because we believe highlighting problems is the first step to solving them.
General Challenges in Microfinance
- 9 Challenges for Microfinance Providers (Part I)
- 8 Microfinance Challenges – Micro Entrepreneurs Only (Part II)
- Comic – Microfinance and Loans
- Problems in Kenya (Presentation)
- Rural Banking in Microfinance – Challenges and Opportunities in 2010 (Presentation)
Ethics in Microfinance
- 6 Ethical Concerns in Microfinance: Not as Simple as it Looks
- Guest Post: Possible Pitfalls of Mixing Charity and Business in Microfinance
- Aggressive Loan Recovery Tactics – Problem in Microfinance
High Interest Rates in Microfinance
- High Interest Rates – Problem in Microfinance
- 4 Ways to Control Unjust Interest Rates in Microfinance
- Microfinance Goes Awry: Case Study of Bank Compartamos’ Interest Rates
- Reducing Interest Rates in Microfinance – Lower Cost of Funds
Multiple Borrowing
- Multiple Borrowing in Microfinance: Causes and Effects – Part I
- Multiple Borrowing in Microfinance: Organizational Factors – Part II
Emerging Issues
- Trends and Risks in Microfinance
- Over Supply of Microcredit – Structural Problem in Microfinance
- Microfinance’s Midlife Crisis: WSJ
- Microfinance Flirting with Danger?
- Microfinance – Riz Khan Interviews Princess Maxima and Roshaneh Zafar