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
• Local banks compete to offer microfinance loans that can balloon fast.
  — Hannah Beech Nadia Shira Cohen, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2022
• Parithad carefully pushed back against some of these criticisms about microfinance.
  — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 13 July 2026
• Indeed, the original models of crypto and microfinance had much in common.
  — Antara Haldar, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2022
• Javice was there to network for her new startup, PoverUp, a platform to help students launch microfinance clubs.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
• Instead, workers are given microfinance loans, with which they are expected to build businesses and pay themselves.
  — Mara Kardas-Nelson, The Dial, 8 Apr. 2025
• 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
• As the journalist Kardas-Nelson shows in this impressive book, the true picture of microfinance was not nearly so rosy.
  — Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
• With microfinance, for example, finding ways of lending larger sums for longer periods at lower rates would surely make many businesses more sustainable and profitable.
  — Christopher Blattman, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2014
• 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
• But extensive research in many countries over long periods has shown that microfinance is not a particularly powerful intervention, as these things go.
  — Bjorn Lomborg, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
• Few ideas in the history of development have drawn as much attention from policymakers, academics, and the general public as microfinance.
  — Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
• Still, Parithad says some traditional sources of capital, like the Thai government and local banks, are wary of Muangthai and other microfinance providers.
  — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 13 July 2026
• Back in college, my classmates had high-minded ambitions like fighting climate change, becoming human-rights lawyers, and starting microfinance firms to alleviate poverty.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Similarly, Bangladesh is famous for its experiments in microfinance.
  — Bjorn Lomborg, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
• Much like the garment industry, the push to strengthen the economy through microfinance also had negative outcomes for the most vulnerable, especially women.
  — Tithi Bhattacharya / Made By History, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 risk is especially clear in Thailand’s neighbor, Cambodia, where a booming microfinance industry has led to worrying levels of debt among borrowers.
  — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 13 July 2026
• The institutions that already serve low-income households and small enterprises, from microfinance groups to cooperatives and inclusive fintechs, show what is possible.
  — Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• Extensive research has shown that microfinance is not a particularly powerful intervention.
  — Bjorn Lomborg, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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