| At the same time, credit unions and banks involved in microlending developed stronger monitoring techniques for their microcredit portfolios. |
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| The Grameen model has spurred other forms of microlending around the world. |
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| On Wednesday afternoon, the crowds included two friends discussing Ghana and microlending. |
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| The microlending Market in Albania in this period can be categorized as very weak and undeveloped. |
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| Donors also get involved in other projects with high social returns, such as microlending projects. |
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| The microlending market developed in a similar cycle to development and changes in the banking system. |
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| Given this context, many interested in women's entrepreneurship see great potential for microlending programmes to meet women's financing needs. |
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| Although the situation varies between the Member States, banks usually are not active enough in microlending. |
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| In Sweden an ethical bank has recently begun microlending. |
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| To avoid undermining the culture of strict repayment discipline for loans and therefore the sustainability of the MFI, there must be a clear distinction between grant and microlending components. |
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| Even if the access to microlending is not widespread yet, the idea that microcredit, by bringing finance to people, offers them the chance to improve theirs life by theirs own efforts is now taken for sure. |
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| There are several microlending programs available to small bussiness owners. |
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| Kiva Arab Youth is a new initiative of Silatech and Kiva, the world's largest microlending platform. |
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| Several banks are participating in Phare-financed SME Finance Facility programmes in cooperation with the EBRD and the KfW, one of which has a microlending programme. |
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| And for everyone in poor countries, credit can mean social upheaval as merit and enterprise replace inheritance, family ties and position. Nor does microlending always have a happy outcome. |
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| Bill Fishbein Santa Fe, N. M., Nov. 15 The writer founded the Coffee Trust and Coffee Kids, whose grass-roots development projects include microlending in coffee-growing areas. |
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| A more market driven approach would allow lending costs to be covered and would make private microlending industry at least potentially self-sustainable. |
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| First, on the demand side, practitioners reported that women's status and position in society and in the family may affect their interest in entrepreneurship in general and microlending in particular. |
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| The report emphasised the diversity of actors in the field of microlending, such as public promotional banks, savings banks, co-operative banks and non-banks. |
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| On this basis, all microlending programmes are underperforming. |
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| In line with its mission to help Polish rural communities put their resources and potential to work for local community development, the Foundation is now implementing a microlending programme. |
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| Accountants for Social Good's endeavors have been so successful that ASG has even founded a second team, The Microlending Fund to reach out to the wider business community. |
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