micro-finance Tag Posts Index

Faith, Finance, and the Future: Leveraging Hive for Mission and Ministry

It is time to write the proposal I have in mind. Of course, this proposal is addressed not to request a fund from DHF but to NCR South Metro Presbytery. 😄 After

Week 01 -- Sometimes Operating a Charitable Business ‘For Profit’ is a Better Way to Help Hurting People

Not-for-Profits have an Inherently Divided Focus Although some charitable enterprises might best serve society by following a ‘not-for-profit’ organizational structure,

Crowdfunding/micro-lending in India

The Indian sub-continent is not only vast geographically but has a huge diversity of people, cultures problems and solutions. When I reviewed kiva a couple of months

The Microloan Foundation

Malawi is one of the poorest nations in the world. A visit to this country inspired Peter Ryan to start the Microloan Foundation which is aimed at poverty alleviation

HOW DO I BENEFIT FROM MICRO-FINANCING?

What is 'Microfinance?' Microfinance, also known as microcredit, is a type of banking service offered to unemployed people or low income people or groups that do

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab assessment of microcredit

Most countries have poverty alleviation policies. However poverty alleviation is a very challenging and diverse problem to tackle. Not every policy or strategy dreamed

Why I love this blog - connecting and J-PAL

I set up this blog to create awareness around challenges for micro, small and medium sized enterprises, in the hopes of discovering like minds on steemit. It is

Kiva loans at 0% interest

Up till now, in reviewing Kiva I have focused on loans with field partners. They do have an experimental model that they are currently operating in the US. These

Bitbond.com - the catch

Bitbond is great on paper, all the principles are solid. But then there is this tiny little catch, which has nothing to do with the idea or its implementation. Image

A Kiva great lend.

Up till now I have been looking at the pros and cons of kiva.com. Now its time to look into an actual lending scenario indepth. There are some real gems there if

Bitbond.com - lending for cryptoheads.

Today we take a look at bitbond.com. Yesterday, we had a comment from @ebargins which prompted today's review. In short, the answer is they are very different. Kiva.com

Micro lending sites - Kiva.org - Due diligence and risks.

Kiva makes it clear that they take due diligence and monitoring very seriously but in the end all the risk lies with the lenders. This is understandable since they

The Kiva Team Steemit

Based on the last two posts I did on Kiva.org I was able to discover there are a number of Steemians on Kiva and there is already a Steemit Team there. I definately

Micro lending sites - Kiva.org - the discerning lender perspective.

Based on the screen grabs @sme did yesterday, we could see that there were some very interesting details available for those who dig deeper. Basically Kiva.org gives

Micro lending sites - Kiva.org - the borrower perspective.

Yesterday I looked at Kiva.org from a lender perspective and it all seemed quite rosy. A couple of clicks as a lender and you are done. There is more to this than

Micro lending sites - Kiva.org - the lender perspective.

Today I start to look at Kiva.org. It can be found following the URL below. It's simple to use and its mission is “to connect people through lending to alleviate

Micro-lending and crowdfunding via the web

The internet has been a marvelous invention, with the way it is able to link people and information around the world. A number of experiments and even operational

Stokvels

This is a very intriguing form of fund raising practiced in South Africa. It dates back to the rotating cattle auctions of English settlers in the Eastern Cape in

Self Help Groups or SGH's

After Bangladesh's successes with Grameen Bank, some of India's micro-credit has been structured around Self Help Groups or SGH's. Image Source Many SGH's were primarily

Modern microcredit and micro loans

You can't really talk about micro-lending and microcredit with out mentioning Grameen Bank and Bangladesh. Muhammad Yunus would later receive a Nobel Prize for using