http://www.fastcompany.com/tag/microfinance-institutions The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/131/mercy-corps-the-bank-of-banks.html <!--paging_filter--><p>In Indonesia, where 110 million people live on less than $2 a day, microfinance is a crowded, fractured field: More than 50,000 microfinance institutions (MFIs) operate there, reaching 50 million poor people. But what about the rest? The Oregon-based antipoverty group Mercy Corps ventured a bold answer in May, when it bought a struggling Balinese bank and reopened it as a wholesale outfit exclusively serving MFIs.<p><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/131/mercy-corps-the-bank-of-banks.html">read more</a></p> microfinance institutions Nepal philanthropySocial Enterprises of the Year Philippines China indonesia Neal Keny-Guyer Mercy Corps MFI Ethonomics Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:00:18 -0500 Jennifer Vilaga 1093659 at http://www.fastcompany.com