Christian Aid has teamed up with a solar lighting specialist to launch an innovative microfinance project bringing solar lighting to people in India.

A worldwide financial cooperative that promotes global justice by empowering disadvantaged people with credit has officially launched its activities in the UK.

A Bangladeshi economist who won the Nobel Peace Prize for championing microcredit loans to the poor, wants urgent re-invention of global finance to end poverty.

The threat of entrepreneurs in poor countries taking on too much loan debt is a growing reality, and a real threat to the rapidly expanding microfinance sector, says fair finance body Oikocredit.