microcredit

Examples of microcredit in the following topics:

• Microfinancing

  • Microfinance is a broad category of services that includes microcredit.
  • Microcredit is the provision of credit services to poor clients.
  • Critics often attack microcredit while referring to it indiscriminately as either 'microcredit' or 'microfinance'.
  • Most criticisms of microfinance are actually just criticisms of microcredit.
  • Examine the use of microfinance and microcredit for industry, including the benefits and criticisms

• The Feminization of Poverty

  • Recent attempts to reduce global poverty have utilized systems of microcredit, which give small loans to poor households in an attempt to break the cycle of poverty.
  • Nearly all microcredit loans are given to women, reflecting an awareness that in poor households women are often responsible for care of the family and may be the only head of household.
  • Microcredit, a system of providing small loans to individuals and families in impoverished areas in an attempt to reverse the cycle of poverty, is almost always distributed to women.

• Social Innovation

  • Prominent social innovators include Bangladeshi Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank, which pioneered the concept of microcredit for supporting innovators in multiple developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
  • Other times it refers to innovations that have a social purpose, like microcredit or distance learning.
  • Prominent social innovators include Bangladeshi Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank, who pioneered the concept of microcredit for supporting innovators in multiple developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

• Employment in Finance

  • Growth in microfinance and microcredit has also opened up employment opportunities in finance both in the US and abroad .
  • Muhammad Yunus is a banker who grew a field in microcredit and microfinance, opening up new types of financial employment.

• Mentor insights: the “Where the Rubber Meets the Road” spokes on the wheel

  • Her home was also financed through a Grameen microcredit home loan.
  • Here is one to start with, I would like to call it "Microcredit and the Mustard Seed":
  • Each of these people was a microcredit borrower.
  • Microcredit was moving the mountain of poverty before my very eyes.
  • I believe microcredit is a sermon that every church should hear.

• Current Issues in Finance

  • Microcredit is a part of microfinance and involves the extension of very small loans (microloans) to impoverished borrowers, often with the goal of supporting entrepreneurship and/or alleviating poverty.
  • Peer-to-peer lending over the Internet is another growing development in the financial sector, to which the principles of microcredit have also been applied in attempting to address poverty as well as various non-poverty-related issues.