That was the theory behind the microlending thing that one a novel prize several years ago.
September 23, 2026 at 2:35 AM
That was the theory behind the microlending thing that one a novel prize several years ago.
Did "microlending" ever stop being distributed loansharking?
September 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Did "microlending" ever stop being distributed loansharking?
Who knew there was no money in microlending? Just bribe the president, idiots.
September 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Who knew there was no money in microlending? Just bribe the president, idiots.
After 11 years, Tala still isn’t profitable. But it has revamped its technology and developed a new underwriting approach, and it aims to enter six new countries and break even by early 2026.
Unprofitable Microlending Fintech Makes Big Bet On Global Expansion
After 11 years, Tala still isn’t profitable. But it has revamped its technology and developed a new underwriting approach, and it aims to enter six new countries and break even by early 2026.
www.forbes.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
After 11 years, Tala still isn’t profitable. But it has revamped its technology and developed a new underwriting approach, and it aims to enter six new countries and break even by early 2026.
Cofounder of Kiva, the microlending, anti poverty organization.
Who was in your high school graduating class, +/- two years, that would be of interest?
For example, I took a basketball class and graduated w/all-time 8th man Jud Buechler (look it up), and may have followed Stephanie Seymour (not sure if she still WENT to school after I moved there).
For example, I took a basketball class and graduated w/all-time 8th man Jud Buechler (look it up), and may have followed Stephanie Seymour (not sure if she still WENT to school after I moved there).
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Cofounder of Kiva, the microlending, anti poverty organization.
Microlending organizations in the third world prefer to loan money to women over men. The reason is simple, when women gain wealth they improve the lives of their entire households. When men gain wealth, men gain wealth. Also, women are more likely to pay it back.
November 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Microlending organizations in the third world prefer to loan money to women over men. The reason is simple, when women gain wealth they improve the lives of their entire households. When men gain wealth, men gain wealth. Also, women are more likely to pay it back.
reverse microlending
June 19, 2024 at 3:37 AM
reverse microlending
Things that Her Majesty had done was great.
www.instagram.com/adamkeawe/p/...
www.instagram.com/adamkeawe/p/...
Adam Keawe Manalo-Camp on Instagram: "In honor of Queen Liliʻuokalani’s birthday:
1. Champion of Women – She tried to establish a women’s bank and experimented with early microlending to support wome...
adamkeawe on September 1, 2025: "In honor of Queen Liliʻuokalani’s birthday:
1. Champion of Women – She tried to establish a women’s bank and experimented with early microlending to support women’s f...
www.instagram.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Things that Her Majesty had done was great.
www.instagram.com/adamkeawe/p/...
www.instagram.com/adamkeawe/p/...
did you see the Hindenburg Tesearch pieces on Opera and the like doing predatory microlending in developing nations? it feels like they're slowly bringing it home like everything else in empire
December 19, 2024 at 12:16 AM
did you see the Hindenburg Tesearch pieces on Opera and the like doing predatory microlending in developing nations? it feels like they're slowly bringing it home like everything else in empire
Kiva is a microlending nonprofit that's sorta adjacent to food charities. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiva_(o...
Kiva (organization) - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
January 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Kiva is a microlending nonprofit that's sorta adjacent to food charities. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiva_(o...
Just having the ability to DELAY pregnancy until early 20s granted huge, huge, huge benefits to women.
That's also when I got involved in microlending to impoverished places (including the US) to help women start biz. :)
That's also when I got involved in microlending to impoverished places (including the US) to help women start biz. :)
July 24, 2023 at 6:27 AM
Just having the ability to DELAY pregnancy until early 20s granted huge, huge, huge benefits to women.
That's also when I got involved in microlending to impoverished places (including the US) to help women start biz. :)
That's also when I got involved in microlending to impoverished places (including the US) to help women start biz. :)
This is me vs. all my microlending obsessed peers in business school
January 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This is me vs. all my microlending obsessed peers in business school
This busy pig is also working on privatizing SickKids, and changing all the booze policies in Ontario to benefit Loblaws.
Her main day job is making sure newcomers get into debt as they try to rejoin the workforce.
www.windmillmicrolending.org/leadership-t...
Her main day job is making sure newcomers get into debt as they try to rejoin the workforce.
www.windmillmicrolending.org/leadership-t...
Leadership Team | Windmill Microlending
Our passionate and dedicated leadership team is committed to fostering the growth of our organization with the aim of better serving an expanding community of skilled immigrants and refugees.
www.windmillmicrolending.org
September 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This busy pig is also working on privatizing SickKids, and changing all the booze policies in Ontario to benefit Loblaws.
Her main day job is making sure newcomers get into debt as they try to rejoin the workforce.
www.windmillmicrolending.org/leadership-t...
Her main day job is making sure newcomers get into debt as they try to rejoin the workforce.
www.windmillmicrolending.org/leadership-t...
Microlending has long been a hard business in India, and both politicians and regulators have made it tougher. Now economic stress is driving up defaults, too
Indian microfinance is in trouble
A model that has lifted millions out of poverty is threatened by rising defaults
econ.st
October 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Microlending has long been a hard business in India, and both politicians and regulators have made it tougher. Now economic stress is driving up defaults, too
Finished another 5Y cycle of microlending. ROI 8.37%. 209 loans, 185 paid, 24 charged off. This was help for REAL PEOPLE. Not organizations. Actual humans received benefit of a microloan, and restored my feel for humanity more than any stock. Thanks people. I am glad to close this effort with you.
April 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Finished another 5Y cycle of microlending. ROI 8.37%. 209 loans, 185 paid, 24 charged off. This was help for REAL PEOPLE. Not organizations. Actual humans received benefit of a microloan, and restored my feel for humanity more than any stock. Thanks people. I am glad to close this effort with you.
Protesters who toppled Hasina want Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to lead Bangladesh
Protesters who toppled Hasina want Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to lead Bangladesh
Yunus faced a number of corruption accusations and was put on trial during Hasina’s rule. He received the Nobel in 2006 after he pioneered microlending.
apnews.com
August 6, 2024 at 6:59 AM
Protesters who toppled Hasina want Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to lead Bangladesh
I'm sad to learn that Kiva, the microlending organization I've supported for many years, seems to have badly lost its way.
Unless things change dramatically, I'll no longer be lending through Kiva.
www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/14/1...
Unless things change dramatically, I'll no longer be lending through Kiva.
www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/14/1...
What happened to the microfinance organization Kiva?
A group of strikers argue that the organization seems more focused on making money than creating change. Are they right?
www.technologyreview.com
June 13, 2024 at 11:02 AM
I'm sad to learn that Kiva, the microlending organization I've supported for many years, seems to have badly lost its way.
Unless things change dramatically, I'll no longer be lending through Kiva.
www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/14/1...
Unless things change dramatically, I'll no longer be lending through Kiva.
www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/14/1...
The $10-million partnership between Woveo and BDC will provide access to loans of up to $25,000 for SMBs across Canada.
Woveo partners with BDC on business microlending program | BetaKit
The $10-million project aims to expand capital access for small and medium-sized businesses.
betakit.com
September 24, 2026 at 2:15 PM
The $10-million partnership between Woveo and BDC will provide access to loans of up to $25,000 for SMBs across Canada.
..on anything, then men would just take the EBT cards from women and spend the money on booze.
We did discuss in my economics classes that int'l microlending programs only loan to women because men will drink up the money and never repay it.
We did discuss in my economics classes that int'l microlending programs only loan to women because men will drink up the money and never repay it.
September 17, 2026 at 2:24 PM
..on anything, then men would just take the EBT cards from women and spend the money on booze.
We did discuss in my economics classes that int'l microlending programs only loan to women because men will drink up the money and never repay it.
We did discuss in my economics classes that int'l microlending programs only loan to women because men will drink up the money and never repay it.
New blog post from the Prout team at prout.info The power of microlending to support underserved populations. #microlending #economicdemocracy prout.info/a-microlendi...
A Microlending Project takes off in Iowa - Proutist Universal
By Andy Douglas I’ve been helping to start a new Prout-inspired project in my hometown of Iowa City, Iowa, in the US. By sharing about it, I hope to demonstrate that many opportunities exist for imple...
prout.info
November 30, 2024 at 6:30 PM
New blog post from the Prout team at prout.info The power of microlending to support underserved populations. #microlending #economicdemocracy prout.info/a-microlendi...
This month, the IFC's watchdog announced that the board has barred it from processing any new complaints related to microlending and instructed it to suspend all ongoing work on such cases. There are currently 10 such cases in Cambodia and one in Rwanda. bit.ly/4f4zsKN
International Finance Corporation watchdog in turmoil following scathing report on microfinance in Cambodia - ICIJ
The head of an internal auditor resigned after the board of the World Bank’s private investment arm rejected her office’s findings that the deal violated internal safeguard policies.
www.icij.org
August 17, 2026 at 10:00 PM
This month, the IFC's watchdog announced that the board has barred it from processing any new complaints related to microlending and instructed it to suspend all ongoing work on such cases. There are currently 10 such cases in Cambodia and one in Rwanda. bit.ly/4f4zsKN
So I came across the word that explains this, it’s called responsibilization: the act of the state or larger institution pushing responsibility for doing tasks formerly done by the system onto the individual. It’s why we are feeling more worn down.
consumerresearcher.com/microlending...
consumerresearcher.com/microlending...
Responsibilizing Consumers: The Role of Affect - Journal of Consumer Research
When responsibility is a matter of affect – something that we feel.
consumerresearcher.com
July 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
So I came across the word that explains this, it’s called responsibilization: the act of the state or larger institution pushing responsibility for doing tasks formerly done by the system onto the individual. It’s why we are feeling more worn down.
consumerresearcher.com/microlending...
consumerresearcher.com/microlending...
The World Bank's microlending programs have come under heavy criticism over concerns that the loans can trap borrowers in crippling debt. In 2019, Cambodia had the most microfinance debt per capita of any country in the world, according to @hrw.org.
International Finance Corporation watchdog in turmoil following scathing report on microfinance in Cambodia - ICIJ
The head of an internal auditor resigned after the board of the World Bank’s private investment arm rejected her office’s findings that the deal violated internal safeguard policies.
buff.ly
August 1, 2026 at 12:37 PM
The World Bank's microlending programs have come under heavy criticism over concerns that the loans can trap borrowers in crippling debt. In 2019, Cambodia had the most microfinance debt per capita of any country in the world, according to @hrw.org.