International Year of Microcredit.
The Microcredit Summit Campaign.
Instead, the deployment of Microcredit precipitated a major disaster.
How Microcredit has hurt the poor and destroyed informal business.
NGO specializing in Microcredit: Students worked in the communication, fundraising, and research department.
Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to
people that conventional banking cannot.
He is a founding
board member of Grameen America and Grameen Foundation, which support Microcredit.
An example of a Microcredit institution is the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh,
founded in 1976 by Mohammed Yunus.
The Microcredit movement thus helped plunge large numbers
of black South African's into deeper over-indebtedness, poverty and insecurity.
Not surprisingly, many in South Africa say that Microcredit brought about the country's own sub-prime-style financial crisis.
It became a business correspondent
for RBL Bank in 2014 and transferred its Microcredit portfolio to the bank.
Microcredit is growing especially in developing countries,
where it allows to fulfill micro-projects, promoting the activity and creation of wealth.
NGOs The Microcredit Summit Campaign counted 3,316 of these MFIs
and NGOs lending to about 133 million clients by the end of 2006.
The core idea of Microcredit is that a small loan will provide
access to the larger economy to people who typically live outside the scope of the institutions on which the mainstream economy rests.
Muhammad Yunus(born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and
pioneering the concepts of Microcredit and microfinance.
These institutions not only offer Microcredit but they also provide other financial services like savings,
insurance, remittance and non-financial services like individual counselling, training and support to start own business and the most important in a convenient way.
The revised microfinance code mandates that only three Microcredit entities can lend loans to a single client and cap the
size of total lending to Rs 1 lakh per microfinance customer(a person who has an annual household income of Rs 1 lakh in rural India and Rs 1.6 lakh in urban India).