http://www.nextbillion.net/multimedia/2005/12/07/economic-returns-social-value-the-case-of-microfinance Comments for "Economic Returns & Social Value: The Case of Microfinance" en http://www.nextbillion.net/multimedia/2005/12/07/economic-returns-social-value-the-case-of-microfinance <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-5"><div class="flexinode--8"> <strong>Session Title: </strong><br /> Measuring Success at the Base of the Pyramid</div> <div class="flexinode--12"> <strong>Date of talk or publication: </strong><br /> 2005</div> <div class="flexinode--9"> <strong>Speaker Name / Title: </strong><br /> Michael Chu</div> <div class="flexinode--10"> <strong>Organization: </strong><br /> Harvard Business School</div> <div class="flexinode--11"> <strong>Description: </strong><br /> After thirty years of development, commercial microfinance – the provision of financial services to low-income populations on a financially-sustainable basis – has many lessons to offer to the study of business and the global poor. Recent years have seen growing evidence, both in the literature and in capital markets, of the ability of leading microfinance institutions, particularly in Latin America and Asia, to generate superior economic returns. Less clear is the contribution successful microfinance makes to the reduction of global poverty. The following aspects of the creation of economic and social value in microfinance yields insights applicable to all endeavors to address the needs of the poor on a commercial basis.<br class="clear" /></div> </div> http://www.nextbillion.net/multimedia/2005/12/07/economic-returns-social-value-the-case-of-microfinance#comment Financial Services Microfinance Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:27:18 -0500 John Paul 1910 at http://www.nextbillion.net