What do people know about microfinance? Radio Netherlands Worldwide asked a number of movers and shakers, experts and non-experts. One of them is retired Dutch entrepreneur and business specialist Ronald Develing, of raw material supplier...
Seven reporters from Radio Netherlands Worldwide travelled round the globe looking for small-scale businesses who had been offered microcredit. They are to be featured in this dossier on 25 January. To whet your appetite, here's a sneak...
While major international banks have collapsed in these times of economic crisis, small microfinance institutions are still performing well. Poor women - until recently regarded as totally non-creditworthy - are paying back their loans...
Seven reporters from Radio Netherlands Worldwide travelled round the globe looking for small-scale businesses which had been offered microcredit. Their stories are to be featured from 25 January in this web dossier. To whet your appetite...
Seven reporters from Radio Netherlands Worldwide travelled round the globe looking for small-scale businesses who had been offered microcredit. They are to be featured in this dossier on 25 January.
Women play a pivotal part in microcredit, according to the Secretary-General of the General Assembly of Ibero-American States, Enrique Iglesias: "I have always said that micro-credits are of value because they give people a sense of...
Seven reporters from Radio Netherlands Worldwide travelled round the globe looking for small-scale businesses who had been offered microcredit. They are to be featured in this dossier on 25 January. To whet your appetite, here's a sneak...
The term ‘microfinance’ may conjure up images of loans to the very poor in Africa and Asia, but it’s also on offer in Western countries. Whilst not widespread in the United States, microfinance does have a foothold in...
Indian film actress Gul Panag is a microcredit fan. “It’s a breath of fresh air,” she says. The Bollywood star first became aware of microfinance when Muhammad Yunus, the man who developed the concept, won the Nobel Peace...
Seven RNW reporters fanned out across the world in recent months to interview small entrepreneurs who funded their businesses with microcredits. Their videotaped portraits will be published in this dossier on 25 January. To whet your...