microfinance Archives - Social Policy Association

Though microfinance is designed to help lift the poor out of poverty, research shows that it can actually do harm when practised poorly.

No 35: At harm’s length: when development bureaucracies mean business

July 2, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 1

by Mathilde Maîtrot When she first started borrowing from Microfinance Institutions (MFIs), Naseema — a 40-year-old widow living in a small village in a northern district of Bangladesh — would get regularly upset by her […]