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- Bangladesh's penny bank gives hope to the rural poor
Resource Type: Article Published: 1989
- Canadian Co-operative Association
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization The Canadian Co-operative Association (CCA) is a national association for co-operatives in Canada, representing more than nine million co-operative and credit union members from over 2,000 organizations. CCA members come from many sectors of the economy, including finance, insurance, agri-food and supply, wholesale and retail, housing, health and the service sector. In addition to its activities in Canada, CCA works to reduce poverty in more than 20 developing countries through its international development program.
- The Enduring Myth Of Microfinance
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 When microfinance-provision of financial services tailored to fit the needs of low income people made its first appearance, everyone was infatuated by its narrative.
- An Examination of the Microcredit Movement
Resource Type: Article Published: 2001 An examination of the microcredit movement, its history, how it functions, and future trends.
- Grameen Bank
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A microfinance organization and community development bank started in Bangladesh that makes small loans (known as microcredit or "grameencredit" to the impoverished without requiring collateral.
- The Microfinance Delusion
Marred by Wall Street-Style Greed, Profiteering, Client Abuse, and Market Chaos Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 By celebrating self-help and individual entrepreneurship, and by implicitly discrediting all forms of collective effort, such as trade unions, social movements, cooperatives, public spending, a pro-poor developmental state and most of all collective moves to ensure a more equitable redistribution of wealth and power, microfinance fits in well with the ideology of neoliberal policy-makers.
- Microfinance or Debt Trap? What the Poor Don't Know
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Qazi's article outlines how poorly designed microfinance initiatives harm rather than help low income borrowers.
- The Power of a Dollar
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Microcredit is nothing more than a socially validated way for financial elites to exploit the poor.
- Sources welcomes Canadian Co-operative Association
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Sources welcomes a new member: the Canadian Co-operative Association.
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