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Timothy Ogden

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The Ambiguous Rise of Microfinance fetchAndInjectHTML('/defer-load/edit-this/20005', document.currentScript);

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By Timothy Ogden
| Stanford Social Innovation Review Verified
Financial Inclusion: How an Idea Became a Global Agenda Tyler Girard 284 pages, Stanford University Press, 2026 Buy the book » Microfinance is often cited as an example of what social entrepreneurship is and can accomplish: new market entrants with a wide range of organizational structures attracting social, government, and for-profit capital, providing innovative in-demand services (often using new technology) to previously excluded bottom-of-the-pyramid customers.
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Big Challenges for Small Firms

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By Laura Freschi, Timothy Ogden, Jonathan Morduch
| findevgateway.org
The Financial Access Initiative at NYU Wagner launched the Small Firm Diaries to better understand a specific group of small businesses: firms in low-income neighborhoods around the world with at least one and no more than 20 non-family, paid workers. These are referred to as “small firms” to distinguish them from “microenterprises,” which traditionally have no paid workers beyond immediate family members. The analysis below focuses on firms in Colombia, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Indonesia.
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What Win-Win Lost: Rethinking Microfinance Subsidy in the Past and Designing for the Future

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By Timothy Ogden, Jonathan Morduch
| findevgateway.org
Skip to main content The modern microfinance industry was built on the idea that lenders could (and should) profit while serving poor and excluded customers. This idea—that lenders could "win" while customers would also "win" —inspired the broader field of social enterprise and opened possibilities for business-driven responses to social problems.
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