Lehigh Microfinance Program & Club

Lehigh Business iLUminate Podcast May 10, 2023 In this episode of Lehigh University’s College of Business iLUminate podcast, we are speaking with Todd Watkins about his recent research on how access to financial services affects the risk of death from COVID-19 globally. Watkins is a professor of economics and has served as executive director of the Martindale Center for the Study of Private Enterprise…...

Podcast: Todd Watkins on How Financial Services Affect COVID Death Rates Lehigh Business iLUminate Podcast May 10, 2023 In this episode of Lehigh University’s College of Business iLUminate podcast, we are speaking with Todd Watkins about his recent resear…

My latest blog on the inclusive finance sector here: Post-COVID Crisis & Opportunity in African Inclusive Finance. This is the sixth and final in a Martindale Center at Lehigh's blog series hosted by Accion's Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI) that highlights takeaways from a global workshop at Lehigh University, where leaders from the inclusive finance sector discussed the question of whether financial inclusion is more relevant than ever during the pandemic crisis.

Post-COVID Crisis & Opportunity in African Inclusive Finance My latest blog on the inclusive finance sector here: Post-COVID Crisis & Opportunity in African Inclusive Finance. This is the sixth and final in a Martindale Center at Lehigh’s blog seri…

From Lehigh Business magazine, Issue 7, Fall 2021 Bringing the Heat (and Light): Todd Watkins is tracking the diversification of microfinance. By Margie Peterson Microfinance–the practice of giving small loans, savings accounts and other financial services to low-income individuals or groups who wouldn’t otherwise have access to such services–gained international attention when Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank received the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in developing countries in 2006....

Tracking the Diversification of Microfinance From Lehigh Business magazine, Issue 7, Fall 2021 Bringing the Heat (and Light): Todd Watkins is tracking the diversification of microfinance. By Margie Peterson Microfinance–the practice of giving…

Co-authored by me and Shannon Mudd, director of the Microfinance and Impact Investing Initiative at Haverford College. Second in a blog series—based on a global workshop at Lehigh University's Martindale Center—published by Accion International's Center for Financial Inclusion. Digitally Reshaping Inclusive Financial Services in the Wake of COVID-19 Other blogs from the Lehigh global workshop here.

Digitally Reshaping Inclusive Financial Services in the Wake of COVID-19 Co-authored by me and Shannon Mudd, director of the Microfinance and Impact Investing Initiative at Haverford College. Second in a blog series—based on a global workshop at Lehigh University’…

Congrats to Rangan Varadan, CBE PhD alum - his microfinance startup MicroGraam covered by Times of India http://is.gd/TOW78N

Microfinance companies take over industry with low cost loans - The Times of India Amidst the regulatory upheaval and scramble for fresh capital that defines India's microfinance sector, a new breed of micro lenders are quietly challenging the conventional norms of the industry with an internet-based funding model and low-cost loans.

Combining your passion and doing good: Huff Post blurb by former Lehigh Microfinance Club president Fred Graves about the Microfinance hip-hop video he made for Grameen while and intern there.

The World's First Hip-Hop Microfinance Music Video As an intern for the Grameen Foundation, I was excited at the chance to combine my passions for microfinance and for hip-hop music. The result is the first hip-hop microfinance music video.

Youtube blurb on Lehigh's Microfinance Immersion Field Program in Kenya, 2011

Lehigh In Kenya 2011 Kenya has a vibrant microfinance industry, which provides financial services to the poor. Over the course of ten days, students gained exposure to a wide ran...