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What does microcredit mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable, banking) The practice of making very small loans, especially to poor people to promote self-employment; microlending.
  2. (countable, banking) A microloan.
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The aim of microcredit is to foster sustainable economic activity at the grassroots.
This is surely the rationale of the UN campaign to increase the public's awareness of microcredit.
Together, microcredit and IT have the common capacity to empower poor people, particularly poor women.
That is why the United Nations has designated 2005 as the international year of microcredit.
She was granted this microcredit to buy kitchenware, such as casserole and food containers.
The country as a whole has seen a spurt in microcredit, overtaking, in the number of borrowers, Bangladesh, the global movement's fountainhead.

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