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microfinance
Sign in to savethumb|An Afghan woman doing microfinanced sewing work Microfinance consists of financial services designated for individuals and small businesses (SMEs) who lack access to conventional banking and related services.
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Encyclopedic overview
43 sectionsContents
- History
- Poverty
- Ways in which poor people manage their money
- Examples
- Debates and challenges
- Loan pricing
- Use of loans
- Reach versus depth of impact
- Women
- Organizations supporting this work
- Benefits and limitations
- Standards and principles
- Scale of operations
- Ecosystem
- In the United States and Canada
- Impact
- United States
- Canada
- Limitations
- On the Indian subcontinent
- In Pakistan
- Networks and associations
- MicroFinance Network
- Partnership for Responsible Financial Inclusion
- European Microfinance Network
- Microfinance Centre
- Africa Microfinance Network (AFMIN)
- Inclusive financial systems
- Microcredit and the Web
- Blockchain micro-lending
- Social interventions
- Impact and criticism
- Impact
- Competition and market saturation
- Mission drift
- Role of foreign donors
- Working conditions in enterprises affiliated to MFIs
- Abuse
- See also
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|An Afghan woman doing microfinanced sewing work Microfinance consists of financial services designated for individuals and small businesses (SMEs) who lack access to conventional banking and related services.
Microfinance includes microcredit, the provision of small loans to poor clients; savings and checking accounts; microinsurance; and payment systems, among other services.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “microfinance” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.