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Microfinance: a platform for social change

This paper argues that although microfinance is an effective poverty alleviation tool, it should be utilized as a platform for multiple empowerment approaches, building on the successful models being pioneered by a few microfinance practitioners.

Issues addressed include:
- Overview of microfinance
- Inhibitors to success
- Improving Microfinance as an Anti-Poverty Tool
- Partnership models

The paper is available for download from this site.

 

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