Saturday, May 12, 2007

Microfinance 2.0 - Forbes.com

Microfinance 2.0
Knowledge@Wharton 04.10.07, 3:50 PM ET

Some of the major misconceptions about microfinance--small loans of under $100 that enable Third World residents to become entrepreneurs--can be summed up by what happened roughly a decade ago, when the pioneering Grameen Bank decided to help female villagers in Bangladesh enter the mobile phone business. continue...

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