Microfinance News

In the Foreign Policy In Focus article Microcredit: False Hopes and Real Possibilities, Robert Pollin, a professor of economic at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, takes a look at how a new microfinance model can bridge the gap between smaller micro credit firms and commercial banks to target small well established businesses.

Foreign Policy In Focus

In an interview with American Public Media's Tess Vigeland, Nicholas Kristof tells of his experience with microfinance and meeting his beneficiaries.

American Public Media

Bootstrap News

Dean Margee Ensign from University of the Pacific's School of International Studies wrote an article in the Stockton Record about "Putting poverty out of business." She takes a look at the current situation of poverty in the world and how the World Bank has been involved in trying to remedy the situation. She also looks at how local organizations are making a difference and sites how Katalysis and UOP's Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship are helping pave the way toward change.

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070603/A_OPINION0615/706030312/-1/A_OPINION06

Microcredit in the news

Microfinance may be the answer to the debate in America about immigration. Elizabeth Napp from The Journal News, discusses the recent death of an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala in New York and how aid and microfinance might alleviate the influx of immigrant to the United States.

http://www.nynews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070526/OPINION/705260317/1151

As the G8 2007 meeting is upon us, ways to alleviate poverty are a major portion of the agenda. Here is an article about Germany's proposal for a micro-credit fund for African nations. One of their main goals is to raise aid to 0.7% of GDP by 2015.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/5d854866-bba8-11db-afe4-0000779e2340.html

Schools can be an important resource in the fight on poverty. This article talks about how one teacher rallied his students to take notice to the challenges people from other nations might face and to do their part and help.

http://www.bakercityherald.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=4984