Tag: poverty alleviation

Interested in learning more about the promise and peril of microcredit? The current debate about the efficacy of microfinance is marked by the absence of those who have most at stake in the controversy: loan recipients. The Goldin Institute is working to lift up these voices—most often marginalized women—and restore their perspectives, insights and aspirations… Continue reading Goldin Institute’s Travis Rejman Interviewed on Worldview

Microcredit Summit in Dhaka Groundbreaking meeting between microcredit recipients, lenders and regulators, hosted in June 2010. We are pleased to share the recently compiled transcript from the “Listening to the Experiences of Microcredit Recipients” roundtable discussion that took place in Dhaka, Bangladesh on June 21, 2010.  This groundbreaking summit was the first dialogue between microcredit… Continue reading Transcript of Roundtable Dialogue in Bangladesh

Community Based Oral Testimony Rethinking Research from the Perspective of Community Experience In debates on development, the voices of those it affects the most are often conspicuously absent.  Our strategy for bringing their voices back in was simple: we decided to ask them. We adopted a strategy known as “oral testimony” which relies on extended… Continue reading Community Based Oral Testimony

The Goldin Institute partnered with Grantmakers Without Borders to produce a groundbreaking guide to understanding and improving microcredit. This guide and its recommendations have been distributed throughout our combined global networks of donors, practitioners and recipients of microcredit. A central premise of the Guide is that In debates on development, the voices of those it… Continue reading Microcredit: A Guide for Funders