It’s clear that microfinance has tremendous potential to help tackle unemployment and poverty in Indonesia. By instituting a wise and prudent regulatory structure that balances lender profits and borrower protections, Indonesia can continue to extend credit to the poor, while maintaining financial soundness.

Microfinance institutions do not offer a panacea for poverty, but they can play a significant role in development.

What is the best way to address the plight of the two billion people in the world barely surviving on less than $2 a day?

Hubbard and Duggan make the case that current foreign aid and Third World projects--particularly in Africa--aren't working and that the developed world must rethink how it allots aid money.

The discussion in Washington, D.C., has noticeably shifted from large-scale government initiatives to entrepreneurial approaches to ending global poverty.

Integrating microfinance with the global banking system has the potential to open doors of economic opportunity for millions and unite communities in civil society networks.

While the world’s attention is focused on a struggling Iraq and a rising China, a battle for the heart and soul of the Americas is being waged closer to home.

If aid cannot, can business pull Africans out of poverty?