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June 20, 2011
In the late 1970s and early 1980s was born a global movement to bring financial services to poor people. First it was called micro-enterprise credit, then microcredit, and then microfinance. In fact, the idea of bringing loans, savings accounts, insurance policies, and money transfer services to...
June 20, 2011
Designing financial products that meet the needs of the poor and the middle class and creating the policy environment in which financial institutions can flourish are core development challenges. Such efforts are on the rise but have tended to be scatter-shot, based on intuition and belief rathe...