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Experts from IDB’s Multilateral Investment Fund and the Citi Foundation presented their approach to promote financial inclusion among government payments recipients in the LAC region.

Diaspora can now more than ever be instrumental in development through investment.

Brenda Schuster, Technical Advisor for Catholic Relief Services, shares out from the Making Cents Youth Economic Opportunities Conference on "Changing Course: Transforming at-risk and gang-involved youth through enterprise development".

Three practitioners spoke openly about the challenges and lessons their organizations have experienced in advancing youth-inclusive financial services.

MFIC’s transnational loan program aims to create a bridge or mechanism for immigrant families to access financing for income-generating or asset-building activities in their country of origin.

Nobody ever starts a big business – nobody comes up with an idea and goes out and hires 10,000 people…you start with the right idea at the right time in the right place and then you grow.

Semhar Araia, founder and Executive Director of the Diaspora African Women's Network, shares her story of her involvement in the Horn of Africa diaspora.

Catch the highlights from the Global Microcredit Summit, held once every five years, that took place on November 14-17 in Valladolid, Spain.

Members of The SEEP Network provide a recap of the debate "Moving Financial Inclusion Beyond Microfinance."

In a recent Inter-American Dialogue article, a group of industry experts were asked: Where does Latin America's microfinance industry stand today, following a year when the negative sides of microfinance captured headlines.

Read Twitter highlights from the 2011 SEEP Annual Conference below.

In a recent Inter-American Dialogue article, a group of industry experts were asked: Where does Latin America's microfinance industry stand today, following a year when the negative sides of microfinance captured headlines.

In a recent Inter-American Dialogue article, a group of industry experts were asked: Where does Latin America's microfinance industry stand today, following a year when the negative sides of microfinance captured headlines.

In a recent Inter-American Dialogue article, a group of industry experts were asked: Where does Latin America's microfinance industry stand today, following a year when the negative sides of microfinance captured headlines.

Trickle Up's blog addresses how African participants in savings groups build solidarity amongst each another.

During the past seven years, the Cambodia MSME Project has effectively changed the governing and business cultures from distrust to partnership and cooperation.

Key takeaways from the Ultra-Poor Symposium included the need to generate better data on the ultra poor and to design cost-effective programs that reach a larger number of ultra-poor people around the world.

Building on a deeper understanding of the idiosyncrasies that characterize extreme poverty, organizations have developed promising interventions that incorporate “push” and “pull” strategies.

The iterative process (Idea > Design > Prototype > Test/Experiment > Learn/Adapt) is used to learn (about, from, and with market actors) and develop rapid solution prototypes so that one “fails quickly” and “fails small.”

Despite the number of people living in extreme poverty declining by more than 100 million between 2005 and 2008, those who receive the least attention and support are the ultrapoor.

Human System Dynamics uses metaphors from the physical, mathematical, and computer sciences to help change agents understand what is happening in dynamic interactions and is used as a “meta model” for working with complex systems.

In advance of the June Note From the Field on the state of microfinance in Iraq from USAID-Tijara, Microlinks is featuring a series of videos from the program to give you an inside look at the progress on the ground. The USAID Tijara Provincial Economic Growth Program is a five-year initiative to promote economic growth and employment in Iraq by increasing private sector access to finance, in particular for micro, small and medium enterprises.

The seminar was successful in discussing the encouraging findings revealed so far and in identifying new research needed to unearth additional compelling, robust, welfare-enhancing results that can then guide policy and practice moving forward.

A young Iraqi beekeeper establishes his own honey production business with assistance from the Iraqi Youth Initiative.

The goal of the Iraqi Youth Initiative is to reduce youth unemployment by providing business skills training to help unemployed youth find jobs and apprenticeships.