Dublin, March 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Microlending Global Market Report 2024" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global microlending market is experiencing a ...

Providing small loans to help the poor start or expand businesses is an effective strategy for helping communities ravaged by the recession as well as expanding the overall economy, according to ...

What better way to draw attention to the power of microlending to lift millions out of poverty than this year’s award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus. Yunus and his ...

In the three decades since Muhammad Yunus came up with the idea of microloans for women to start businesses as a way of combating poverty in the world's poorest societies, it has attracted widespread ...

If a poor woman in Nicaragua or Honduras can leverage a $50 loan into an egg-selling business to support her family, how about leveraging that kind of microlending system into a self-supporting ...

In addition to crowdfunding, microlending is a possible alternative for small businesses seeking alternative forms of investment. Many entrepreneurs believe that microlending is only a funding option ...

DETROIT (WWJ) --Huntington Bank (NASDAQ: HBAN) announced a microlending partnership with the Michigan Economic Development Corp., the Pure Michigan Micro Lending Initiative, backed by a Huntington ...

It's been called crowdfunding, micropatronage, microlending, and micro-VC. But it's the new way to invest and to receive capital: customers and investors willing to pay small amounts of money to ...

Rochester, N.Y., used to be a company town. The city’s robust economy was driven by its largest employers: Kodak, Xerox and Bausch + Lomb. Kodak Tower dominated the Rochester skyline for more than 50 ...

Rachel Cook was working as a futures trader when she had a revelation: Making money is great, but helping others do so is better. After reading an article on how microloans can benefit businesswomen ...

You don’t have to search for long to see examples of game designers focusing their talents on games that do social good. WeTopia, a popular Farmville-style Facebook game that lets users send donations ...