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Can microfinance end poverty?

23. June 201623. June 2016 ~ schockenhoff ~ 1 Comment

“We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums.” This sentence was said by Mohammad Yunus during his speech at the first Microcredit Summit in 1997. He is the founder of the Grameen Bank, the first microfinance institution and started introducing microloans to rural women in Bangladesh in … Continue reading Can microfinance end poverty?

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