Oikocredit currently has 589 investments in microfinance organizations, totalling 80% of its current portfolio. Why is microfinance so important and how does it work? We recently spoke with Anton Simanowitz, a widely published UK academic and specialist working with Oikocredit, about the role of financial services in disadvantaged people’s lives. Firstly, what is microfinance? “Fundamentally,... Read more »