Microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Responding to the Voices of Poor People

Poverty reduction through microfinance is tied to the belief that access to credit enables poor people to increase business earnings and improve livelihoods. Often the church has embraced microfinance as part of its theology of social transformation. Microfinance practitioners therefore, have to prudently manage their institutions and ensure improvements in poor people’s lives – a complex combination given that livelihood changes can only be confirmed by people experiencing poverty. This mi...