Crop insurance lessons from my field trip to Rajshahi
Crop insurance is a valuable climate adaptation tool for disaster-prone countries like Bangladesh.
Blog posts on "microfinance institutions"
Over-indebtedness – the flip side of financial inclusion
To help microfinance clients borrow the right amount, we need to improve their awareness and understanding of financial products.
Demonetization brought out the best in Indian microfinance clients
Events unfolded quite differently to expectations, and showed the poor's resilience.
Microfinance institutions must enhance client protection to better serve clients
Microfinance institutions must ensure that clients are treated in a fair and transparent manner, and are able to fulfill their debt.
Digital finance successes, failures provide lessons for microfinance
If issues of trust, affordability, and reliability are addressed, digital financial services can help extend financial services to all.
Microloans start flowing to quake-affected families in Nepal
Microfinance provides post-disaster relief and support quickly, reduces the cost of recovery financing, reduces aid dependency, and builds long-term resilience.
Microfinance in PNG – as easy as banking from a vegetable garden
An ADB-supported project has made a significant positive impact toward achieving financial inclusion for people living in remote areas of Papua New Guinea.
From Andhra Pradesh to Wall Street: Rethinking the ethics of finance
The changing landscape of finance is a huge subject so let’s start with a short history of banking (thanks here to Wikipedia). The word actually comes from banca or bench where the moneylenders sat.