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Learn more about microfinance and global poverty.

Microfinance

The Grameen Bank
This is the official site of Grameen Bank.

Grameen-Crédit Agricole pour la microfinance dans le monde
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation will develop sustainable partnerships with microfinance institutions to operate in developing and emerging countries.

One Hen
One Hen is the story of Kojo, a young boy from Ghana who uses a small loan to purchase a single hen. Through the newly-launched OneHen Web site, children interact one-on-one in a virtual village with microfinance. The site features interactive games where children can earn beads and then “loan” them to small businesses in the virtual marketplace, allowing them to see firsthand the power one small action can make in the lives of many. For each bead loaned, the site makes a donation to actual poor entrepreneurs through Opportunity International, a global microfinance organization.

RESULTS
RESULTS is a nonprofit, grassroots citizens' lobby working to create the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty, and committed to having individual citizens have a breakthrough in realizing their own personal and political power.

The Microcredit Summit Campaign: Industry organization with the goal of bringing microcredit for self-employment and other financial and business services to 100 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, by the year 2005.

The Virtual Library on Microcredit: A compendium of information about Microcredit programs and practices.

MIX Market: global information exchange site for the microfinance industry. The MIX Market strives to facilitate exchanges and Investments flows, promote transparency and improve reporting standards in the microfinance industry.

The Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP): a World Bank entity with the goal of reducing poverty by increasing access to financial services for very poor households through financially sustainable institutions.

Unitus works to alleviate global poverty by increasing access to microfinance.

UN International Year of Microcredit 2005: UN program to building inclusive financial sectors to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

UNCDF Microfinance: UN program building inclusive financial sectors that serve poor and low-income people. Projects include the Microfinance Distance Learning Program.

In Credit We Trust: Social Capital by Grameen Bank in Bangladesh: Asif Dowla, Professor of Economics at St Mary’s College of Maryland, explores how Grameen Bank’s social capital fueled the explosive growth of microfinance.

Global Poverty

World Bank - Poverty data from official statistical systems organized and financed by national governments.

Poverty Mapping - Articles, case studies, maps, and graphics on the issues of poverty, food security, and the environment.

World Bank PovertyNet - Information about poverty, its assessment, its impacts, and initiatives to reduce poverty internationally.

Of Interest

Grameen Shakti (Energy) fights poverty through renewable energy programs in Bangladesh.

MGD Monitor shows how countries are progressing in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

USAID - an independent U.S. government agency that supports long-term economic growth around the world to advance U.S. foreign policy objectives.

UNDP: United Nations Development Program

UNRISD - an autonomous UN agency engaging in multidisciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development. Through its research, UNRISD stimulates dialogue and contributes to policy debates on key issues of social development within and outside the United Nations system.

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