Poland’s government has made a high-profile effort to help small businesses access capital in the past few years, through a combination of loan instruments, state guarantees and tax credits.

In 2018 Turkey’s economy plummeted into economic crisis after nearly two decades of steady growth. The past year has seen double-digit inflation, a plunging Turkish lira, and a spike in loan defaults and borrowing costs.

In Ukraine, where the government forcibly closed more than 90 failing banks just a few years ago, consumers have been rightly concerned about the security of their savings.

(Istanbul, Turkey) — On May 31 in Istanbul, MetLife Foundation and Village Capital hosted the MetLife Foundation Financial Health Forum: Turkey, which brought together eleven Turkish startups working to improve financial health for low-to moderate-income populations and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). At the program’s conclusion, two startups were selected to receive grants from MetLife Foundation:

There’s an ever-present risk that’s familiar for anyone who invests in startups solving complicated problems in low-income communities: it’s possible for a business to become part of the problem, rather than solving it.

For anyone driving in Houston, the payday loan storefronts are hard to miss.

The minimum wage in Mexico is 88 pesos (about $4.70) a day. At that salary, savings don’t last very long.

In 2014, Clarence Bethea bought a new laptop. It came with a complicated and expensive warranty that he promptly misplaced. It got him thinking.

There are 36 million entrepreneurs in India. Most of them never succeed.