Microfinance Hub

Microfinance started out as microcredit in the 1980s, but has quickly transformed into a full fledge financial services platform. This page lists articles about different microfinance services around the world.

Micro-insurance

• Micro-insurance: Managing Risk for the Poor
• Challenges for Micro Insurance
• Micro-insurance – Helping The Poor Deal With Risk

Agricultural Microfinance

• Seeding Out Poverty – Seeds for Development
• The Change in Agricultural Microfinance

Microloans, Micro-grants and Micro-Savings

• A better mattress: Savings and the poor
• Trickle Up – Releasing The Poor From the Clutches of Extreme Poverty
• Review of the Trickle Up Model
• Financial Access @ Birth – Micro-Grants mixed with Micro-Savings
• Microfinance loans – A successful financing option for poor entrepreneurs

Credit Bureaus in Microfinance

• Microfinance Credit Bureau – Purpose, Operational Elements, Features, Pitfalls
• Microfinance (Credit) Bureaus: Balancing Vision and Pragmatic Solutions

Self-Help Groups in Microfinance

• What is a Self Help Group?
• Challenges Faced by Self Help Groups (Solved by Formalizing this Microfinance Model) – Part 1 and Part 2
• Benefits of Self-Help Groups in Microfinance
• Self-Help Groups and Women Empowerment
• SHGs for the Poor; MFIs for the Non-Poor

Microloan Guarantee

• United Prosperity – Guarantee a Loan to Help Poor Families Escape Poverty

Services Involving Mobile Technology Related to Microfinance

• Mobile Banking in Microfinance – Countries, Services, Risks and the Future
• How Kiva Will Further Change the Microfinance Sector
• Mobile Banking Serves the Poor – Survey Results for M-Pesa

Client Trainings

• Financial literacy in Microfinance – Principles and Global Initiatives
• 4 Ways to Create Effective Financial Literacy Campaigns in Microfinance – Part 1 and Part 2

Rural Banking

• Rural Banking in Microfinance – Challenges and Opportunities in 2010 (Presentation)
• Microfinance Villages for Micro-Entrepreneurs

Others

• What is Microfinance – Definition, Sources and Problems
• Microfinance Institutions/Banks Around the World
• Defining Poverty and the Wealth Gap – UEnd Charity
• Kiva Gift Cards Make Christmas Extra Special
• Microfinance – Lending Cows Instead of Money