Oikocredit
Sign in to saveframeless|right|Oikocredit-Logo Oikocredit (in full Oikocredit, Ecumenical Development Cooperative Society U.A.) is a cooperative society that offers loans or investment capital for microfinance institutions, cooperatives and small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries. It is one of the world's largest private financiers of the microfinance sector. The idea for Oikocredit came from a 1968 meeting of the World Council of Churches. Following this, Oikocredit was established in 1975 in the Netherlands.
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Vinony's link graph records 15 inbound references to Oikocredit, and connects out to Netherlands, Cambodia and cooperative.
It is catalogued under topics including Christian ecumenical organizations, Financial services companies of the Netherlands and Microfinance organizations.
Vinony links it to 9 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- cooperative
- Headquarters
- Amersfoort
- Legal form
- cooperative
- Official website
- www.oikocredit.coop/en
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- inception
- 1975-00-00
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- Oikocredit
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frameless|right|Oikocredit-Logo Oikocredit (in full Oikocredit, Ecumenical Development Cooperative Society U.A.) is a cooperative society that offers loans or investment capital for microfinance institutions, cooperatives and small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries. It is one of the world's largest private financiers of the microfinance sector. The idea for Oikocredit came from a 1968 meeting of the World Council of Churches. Following this, Oikocredit was established in 1975 in the Netherlands.
As a co-operative, Oikocredit finances and invests in fair trade organisations, co-operatives, microfinance institutions, and small to medium-sized enterprises in many developing countries. In 2016 Oikocredit had offices in 31 countries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oikocredit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.