Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of ...

In recent years, the idea of giving small loans to poor people became the darling of the development world, hailed as the long elusive formula to propel even the most destitute into better lives.

As well as being a seminal quote from John F Kennedy’s inaugural address, “help them help themselves” is an idea that has long been discussed and explored with respect to the global poverty agenda. As ...

Microfinance is a growing sector. According to the 2024 Microfinance Social Performance Report by BNP Paribas, 173 million ...