Acumen Quote by Jacqueline Novogratz

Microfinance does not require previous experience or loans to the same extent as a small-business loan, so it's easier for women to enter the…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future.

— Ban Ki-moon

Microfinance is an incredibly powerful tool ... but we must move beyond micro-hopes and micro-ambitions for women.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

A number of non-banking finance companies have entered the rural microcredit market. Many microcredit agencies have been charging interest rates not very dissimilar to…

— M. S. Swaminathan

Microfinance initiatives are very high-touch models. The loan officer meets with local groups of borrowers every week, they share tips and techniques. There's a…

— Pierre Omidyar

Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic…

— James Surowiecki

“This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a few will…

— Ian Smillie

Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty.

— Jonathan Morduch

Microfinance is an idea whose time has come.

— Kofi Annan

What attracted me towards microfinance is it's a very sustainable business, which has an impact on people's lives yet it can be very profitable.

— Ananya Birla

The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.

— Muhammad Yunus