On the 6th of June the June Conference Call was held, entitled ‘For richer, for poorer: Is our love affair with micro finance over?’ You can listen again to the recording here.
Microfinance is an International Development success story, with steady growth since the 1970’s and its emergence as a key tool to fight poverty, recognized with a Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. These days, though, there are a growing number of concerns with the microfinance sector: lack of regulation, the influx of private capital and the pursuit of microfinance as an investment tool. This is why we decided to make microfinance the focus of our June Conference Call, to reclaim microfinance and ask more complex and nuanced questions. The guest speaker on the call was Tom Sanderson, UK director of Five Talents, a Christian Microfinance charity.
