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  2. Microcredit - Wikipedia

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    Examples of platforms that connect lenders to micro-entrepreneurs via Internet are Kiva, Zidisha, and the Microloan Foundation. Another internet-based microlender, United Prosperity (now defunct), uses a variation on the usual microlending model; with United Prosperity the micro-lender provides a guarantee to a local bank which then lends back ...

  3. MicroLoan Program - Wikipedia

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    The maximum term allowed for an SBA micro-loan is six years. Loan terms, however, vary according to the size of the loan, the planned use of funds, the requirements of the intermediary lender, and the needs of the small business borrower. Interest rates vary, depending on the intermediary lender and costs to the intermediary from the U.S. Treasury.

  4. Microfinance - Wikipedia

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    New platforms that connect lenders to micro-entrepreneurs are emerging on the Web (peer-to-peer sponsors), for example MYC4, Kiva, Zidisha, myELEN, Opportunity International and the Microloan Foundation. Another Web-based microlender United Prosperity uses a variation on the usual microlending model; with United Prosperity the micro-lender ...

  5. DreamSpring, 30 years and half a billion dollars

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    DreamSpring, in contrast, is a micro-lender. Most of its loans are between $5.000 and $15,000. The company can loan out a maximum of $2 million in some cases.

  6. Squeezing pennies: Big profits from pre-paid debit cards ...

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    With all the Nobel Prizes being awarded this week, I am reminded that Mohammed Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding Grameen Bank, a micro-lender to the very poor. Yunus's idea was ...

  7. Kiva (organization) - Wikipedia

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    For example, in 2009, micro-loans from Kiva partners in Guatemala averaged 23.16% for the equivalent of US$430 lent on average, comparable to the commercial BanRural rate of 24.5% for a loan of US$635. [46] (For reference, the inflation rate for Guatemala typically varies between 5 and 10% and was just 0.62% in 2009). [47]

  8. Grameen America - Wikipedia

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    Grameen America staff holds mandatory weekly group meetings during which members repay loans and receive peer support and mentoring. Upon successful repayment, members may apply for another loan. The success of the Grameen Bank microfinance model in Bangladesh demonstrates that a high-touch model based on small weekly payments can yield ...

  9. Micro-enterprise - Wikipedia

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    The concepts of micro-enterprise and microfinance were pioneered in 1976 by Nobel Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank (Bank of the Rural), in Bangladesh. The bank was established for the purpose of making small loans to the poor − predominantly women – to help them obtain economic self-sufficiency.

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