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  2. Microcredit - Wikipedia

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    The domestic Accion programs started in Brooklyn, New York, and grew from there to become the first nationwide network microlender. [30] [circular reference] US microcredit programs have helped many poor but ambitious borrowers to improve their lot. The Aspen Institute's study of 405 microentrepreneurs indicates that more than half of the loan ...

  3. Impact of microcredit - Wikipedia

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    Some argue that microcredit empowers women. [1] In the US and Canada, it is argued that microcredit helps recipients to graduate from welfare programs. Critics say that microcredit has not increased incomes, but has driven poor households into a debt trap, in some cases even leading to suicide.

  4. The SEEP Network - Wikipedia

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    In 1985, a group of U.S. based NGOs pioneered new strategies for enterprise development and microcredit, seeking to promote economic opportunities for the world's poor. With support from USAID's Office of Private and Voluntary Cooperation, they formed the “Small Enterprise Evaluation Project” (SEEP) to champion the importance of impact ...

  5. Microfinance - Wikipedia

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    In the US and Canada, aims of microfinance include the graduation of recipients from welfare programs and an improvement in their credit rating. In the US, microfinance has created jobs directly and indirectly, as 60% of borrowers were able to hire others. [61] According to reports, every domestic microfinance loan creates 2.4 jobs. [62]

  6. Microcredit Summit Campaign - Wikipedia

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    The Microcredit Summit Campaign, an American non-profit organization, started as an effort to bring together microcredit practitioners, advocates, educational institutions, donor agencies, international financial institutions, non-governmental organizations and others involved with microcredit around the goal of alleviating world poverty through microfinance.

  7. Brazil's government eyes initiatives to boost credit for low ...

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    The microcredit will be aimed at those enrolled in CadUnico, a federal government registry that enables access to social programs, including the welfare cash handout Bolsa Familia, which reaches ...

  8. List of microcredit lending websites - Wikipedia

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    Contact us; Contribute Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes ... This is an incomplete list of microcredit lending social websites: Kiva (organization

  9. Accion International - Wikipedia

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    In 2009 and 2010, Accion helped to start microfinance institutions in underserved areas of Inner Mongolia, Cameroon, and Brazil.. In December 2009, Accion inaugurated Accion Microfinance China (AMC) in Chifeng Prefecture, Inner Mongolia; this microfinance institution represented the first wholly owned foreign microcredit company (MCC) and only the second wholly foreign-owned MCC in the country.