Lev Plaves is a senior portfolio manager at Kiva, the world’s largest crowdfunding platform for social good. He manages Kiva’s World Refugee Fund, an innovative effort focused on the financial inclusion of forcibly displaced populations. Email him at refugees@kiva.org https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/lev-plaves/rss en Economy Innovation & Technology Solutions Fri, 20 Jul 2018 07:30:00 +0000 Lev Plaves https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/07/20/lending-to-refugees-how-the-wisdom-of-the-crowd-proves-banks-wrong https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/07/20/lending-to-refugees-how-the-wisdom-of-the-crowd-proves-banks-wrong Refugees can boost local economies, but they often lack access to finance as banks deem them risky borrowers. Lev Plaves of crowdfunding platform Kiva explains how their research on the creditworthiness of refugees challenges those economic assumptions.