How to Use microfinance in a Sentence

microfinance

noun

• Social identity was a key part of what made both crypto and microfinance work.
  — Antara Haldar, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2022
• So is Andrew Sun, an 18-year-old who recently launched a microfinance startup.
  — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 13 Jan. 2022
• Over the past few years, Cambodian households have become some of the most indebted on earth, victims of a microfinance crisis.
  — Hannah Beech Nadia Shira Cohen, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2022
• Local banks compete to offer microfinance loans that can balloon fast.
  — Hannah Beech Nadia Shira Cohen, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2022
• Indeed, the original models of crypto and microfinance had much in common.
  — Antara Haldar, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2022
• In early-modern Europe, the Medicis and other potentates created what were the microfinance schemes of their time, lending small sums of money to poor citizens.
  — Mark Malloch-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 15 Jan. 2024
• With a microfinance loan, Chenamma connected her home to the municipal water line and purchased a storage tank with a purifier and a solar water heater.
  — Kara Hurst, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2023
• While substantially less than the predatory terms demanded by many non-bank lenders in Central America, microfinance loans can still be high— a typical 40% or so.
  — Anne Field, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
• For Mike Lazaro, who runs a microfinance company with about a dozen employees, the office Christmas get-together will be significantly stripped down.
  — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2020
• The task White’s catalytic philanthropy tackled was one of nudging the market into action. Scaling up Water.org nudged the market by extending its philanthropy to microfinance lenders.
  — Mark Davis, kansascity.com, 19 May 2017
• The work helped inspire her to create PoverUp, an organization that promoted microfinance and helped other students learn about reducing poverty through business.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2023
• The situation at non-banking lenders and microfinance institutions, which provide loans and other financial services to poorer sections of society, is even more worrisome.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 25 Aug. 2021
• Great research is being done by professors on both sides of the house—not only in the social sciences, but within the management and policy programs, in fields like microfinance, national security, nonprofit management, and public finance.
  — Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2022
• On the heels of the doc’s premiere, Lopez has unveiled a new partnership with Grameen America, a microfinance organization, to advance financial empowerment for Latina businesswomen.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 9 June 2022
• The microfinance initiatives get chapter after chapter, while more important policy interventions are dealt with summarily or not at all.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
• Through tokenization, companies in Lebanon could crowdfund investments, sell shares, and tap a wide variety of possible applications for blockchain technology, including access to microfinance.
  — Hugo Dante, National Review, 27 July 2021
• These institutions continue to buttress their flawed systems of microfinance while colluding with governments to restrict any development of sovereign purchasing power.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 12 Mar. 2017
• The actress and humanitarian also described a microfinance movement called Myna Mahila Foundation, where women manufacture sanitary pads to sell in communities.
  — Lauren Le Vine, vanityfair.com, 8 Mar. 2017
• Indian microfinance industry, which serves 70 million borrowers across India.
  — Anu Raghunathan, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Robert Christen, for example, also directs an international institute in microfinance.
  — Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024