microcredit

Cell phone banking revolutionizes financial services for the poor.

Jawad I. Ali speaks to the Council on Foreign Relations about the growing global sharia finance industry.

A microfinance program in Tajikistan gives community members a promising start.

Microcredit is not a panacea to global poverty. It is one of many approaches and should not be relied upon as the only means to eradicate world poverty.

The preliminary results of an ambitious data collection project are in, providing many valuable lessons learned to help improve access to financial services for poor people.