Do financial institutions limiting services to credit for productive purposes ignore rural clients?

Examining a new approach for lending to small and microbusinesses

What stereotypes and biases are inherent in the conventional view of informal rural finance?

Examining the advantages of community-based lending groups over distant formal bank agents

Can the Grameen Bank model be replicated in other countries?

Assumptions that hinder accurate representation of the financial situation.

How has lending to microenterprises through semi-formal institutions fared in the Philippines?

Mapping the context of shopkeeper and merchant credit lenders in rural Sri Lanka

Do moneylenders use violence and intimidation to extract repayments from the poor?

How has economic development affected informal finance?