Microlending/Microcredit

From Wikipedia – Microcredit is a financial innovation which is generally considered to have originated with the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh.  In that country, it has successfully enabled extremely impoverished people to engage in self-employment projects that allow them to generate an income and, in many cases, begin to build wealth and exit poverty. I recently have made several small loans using Kiva at Kiva.org.  At Kiva you as a potential lender can select from…

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