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 | Microfinance - Does it really work? Governments from Brazil to Bosnia have launched massive microfinance programs, and commercial banks like ABN AMRO, HSBC and Citicorp are rushing down-market, which could increase access to credit for the poor. Some 500 million poor worldwide have reportedly benefited from $6 billion in micro-loans, which supporters want to ramp up to $300 billion. But its critics say there is no solid evidence that microfinance makes a difference, either in developing the economy or reducing poverty. |
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 | Breaking Through Poverty with Microfinance - Grameen Fdn 8 minute version :: www.grameenfoundation.org For many of the world's poorest people, access to credit is their golden opportunity to forge a better life for their families with microfinance, a proven poverty reduction program. Since 1997, Grameen Foundation has been working across the globe to help them pull themselves from poverty by starting, sustaining or expand tiny businesses. Breaking Through gives you a glimpse of what this has meant for millions throughout Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Middle East. The documentary introduces you to our front line partners and some of the families whose lives have changed through microfinance. |
 | Microfinance Success Story This is the story of Josephine Abiza, a microenterprise client who has expanded her business due to increased access to financial services from the Rural Bank of Sto Tomas, the first MABS Participating Rural Bank which partnered with MABS program in 1998. This video was made possible with support provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development under the terms of contract number 492-C-00-98-008-00. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Agency for International Development. |
 | What is Microfinance Min Li Chan and Julio Vasconcellos from iinnovate (www.iinnovatecast.com) ask Alex Counts (President of the Grameen Foundation) what is Microfinance? |
 | Senegal Ecovillage Microfinance Fund www.sem-fund.org The SEM Fund, or the Senegal Ecovillage Microfinance Fund, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to alleviating poverty by providing low-interest business loans aimed at strengthening the business skills and livelihoods of highly motivated microentrepreneurs that are excluded from the commercial banking system. Currently, our focus is the thirty-three poverty-stricken villages in the West African nation of Senegal, which are a part of the Global Ecovillage Network, Senegal (GENSEN). The SEM Fund's mission is to help break the cycle of poverty afflicting the people of developing countries. We are based on the premise that effective and sustainable development can be achieved by opening up opportunities for poor people to control their own economic futures. We do not provide handouts that create dependencies. We believe that in order to generate the greatest impact, as much of our funding as possible should be used for the communities in which we work. Therefore, donations to The SEM Fund go towards expanding our reach throughout Senegal and providing loans which once repaid will be loaned out again, thus creating a revolving loan fund. As part of our commitment to complete transparency, The SEM Fund has had its operational information and financial reports reviewed and published by the MIX Market, a third-party microfinance reporting organization. Click here to review SEM's MIX Market Profile. www.sem-fund.org |
 | Muhammad Yunus - Grameen Bank Global X has had many chats with Muhammad Yunus, but most of the time when the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate was talking to other interesting people, such as Peter Gabriel, Pamela Hartigan, Vera Cordeiro, Rachel Payne, Sakena Yacoobi or Albina Ruiz. Global X even met his daughter Monica Yunus, a soprano with the Metropolitan Opera in New York who sang in French just for him (and a few thousand other people): a piece from Gounod's Romé et Juliette. Her French was very good, thought Global X at that time. At last, a few weeks ago, Global X had a chance to sit down with the Professor to have a little chat. Just the two of them (and a movie crew). Global X, for once, was mesmerized and actually became speechless. Listen to Professor Yunus as he tells the story of the first US$27 loan in a village of Bangladesh, the loan that launched the microfinance movement. Watch him as he recalls how surprised he was that it took so little money to free village women from modern-day slavery, humiliation and torture. |
 | What Is Microfinance? Geoff Davis at Stanford Geoff Davis, founder and CEO of Unitus, explains the meaning of microfinance and the huge potential and impact the field has. He goes on to discuss the difference between microfinance and micro credit. He reveals that microfinance has a huge growth opportunity as it is potentially a five billion dollar market and is currently about a one billion dollar market. |
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