Posts Tagged "microfinance"

Micro-mythbusting

Deconstructing some common assumptions about microfinance

Posted by Gill on Jul 31, 2010 in Blog | 2 comments

Travelling to Iloilo at the beginning of the month in order to conduct an assessment of a microfinance programme that targets people with disabilities as clients, I was required to undertake a bit of a crash course in microfinance theory. Microfinance – the provision of small loans (and other financial services) to the poor to enable them to avoid using traditional moneylenders who...