Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus says the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and its microcredit program remain robust despite the gloomy state of the global economy. Yunus credits the bank's one-on-one relationship...

Watch this music video, "Hear Me Now" by The Green Children, Marlow and Milla, a moving illustration of the success of microfinance in Bangladesh, which is lifting many out of...

Pro Mujer is an international microfinance and women's development network whose mission is to provide Latin America's poorest women with the means to build livelihoods for themselves and futures for...

Pro Mujer in Peru began in 1999 building upon the knowledge and lessons learned in Bolivia and Nicaragua. The institution achieved self-sustainability by the end of 2002. Pro Mujer in...

Pro Mujer in Argentina began operations in November, 2005 in the city of Salta, a northern province near the Bolivian border. It received technical assistance and support from Pro Mujer...

David Bornstein, author of "How to Change the World," told Global X what happened when he was a young journalist and he first met Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh.

Social entrepreneur Roshaneh Zafar, founder and managing director of Kashf Foundation, Pakistan's third largest microfinance institution, tells Global X why she had to unlearn what she learned about economics. She also...