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Tag Archives: microfinance
Microfinance’s next frontier
by Meredith May. Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fall 2010 Microinsurance is a small insurance policy that can be sold to a poor or low-income person in an emerging market. It is the next frontier in the microfinance movement. Today more than 150 million low-income people in developing countries are improving their families’ futures through microloans, according to the World Bank. As workers grow their microbusinesses, they want insurance. All it takes is a flood, a … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Issue 8: Summer 2010-2011, Social Investment
Tagged Ethics, microfinance, microinsurance
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Emerging Markets, Emerging Models: Market-Based Solutions to the Challenges of Global Poverty
The Monitor Group; March 2009. Although microfinance may be the best known example of serving low-income groups through a market solution, many other models are now emerging to serve a large and growing population of poor people. Half the world’s population lives on less than $2 per day: that is 2.6 billion people. During the last few decades of increasing aid the livelihood for those at the “bottom of the pyramid” has not gotten better. … Continue reading
Posted in Issue 4: Spring 2009
Tagged bottom of the pyramid, global poverty, India, marketplace, microfinance, pay-per-use, procurement, Public Policy, Social Investment, training
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Book Review: Creating a World Without Poverty
Book by Muhammad Yunus. Reviewed by Barbara Merz. Creating a World Without Poverty could easily have been a retrospective. After all, its author has plenty to reflect upon. Instead, the book is unmistakably forward-looking. This book presents a compelling vision for the future of capitalism. It envisions a market where social businesses emerge to address social issues. Muhammad Yunus could have rested on his laurels when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Corporate Responsibility, Ethics, Issue 4: Spring 2009, Social Enterprise, Social Investment
Tagged book, Corporate Responsibility, Ethics, global poverty, Grameen Bank, Leadership, microcredit, microfinance, Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize, social business, Social Innovation, Social Investment
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Financial Inclusion, Market Failures and New Markets: Possibilities for Community Development Finance Institutions in Australia
by Ingrid Burkett and Belinda Drew, A Foresters Community Finance Occasional Paper; October 2008. Foresters Community Finance of Queensland argues that the lack of access to affordable capital is the major challenge to the growth of the fourth sector in Australia. In this report, authors Burkett and Drew broaden the traditional definition of financial exclusion in Australia to include not just individuals and families but also groups and organisations such as civil society organisations, social … Continue reading
Posted in Issue 4: Spring 2009
Tagged affordable housing, Australia, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), Foresters Community Finance, fourth sector, job creation, marketplace, microfinance, Public Policy, small business development, social business, Social Enterprise, social inclusion, Social Investment
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