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  1. Bangladesh's penny bank gives hope to the rural poor
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1989
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Sources welcomes Canadian Co-operative Association
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Sources welcomes a new member: the Canadian Co-operative Association.

Experts on Microfinance in the Sources Directory

  1. International Development Law Organization


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