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Microcredit : News & Debates
on the Monday, 20 July, 2009 - 09:48
Microfinance is defined, according to the guide of microfinance, Microcredit And Savings For Development (Boyé Sebastian, Jérémy Hajdenberg, Christine Poursat, Editions Eyrolles, 2006), as "all services that are offered to individuals who have no access to conventional financial institutions. By extension, the term "microfinance" refers to all activities implemented to provide these services. " These financial services are microcredit (joint or individual credit) and savings. Microfinance appeared in Latin America and Asia in the seventies, marked by the creation by Muhammad Yunus of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1976. In 2006, he received the Nobel Prize to award his action for the development of microcredit.
IMPACTS & DEBATES
The first studies on the impacts of microfinance institutions (MFIs) started in the 80’s. Today, there are nearly a hundred English-language studies on the analysis of the impacts of microcredit, plus dozens of French-language studies. The studies are mainly carried out by the MFIs, by experts or by international organizations. What are the impacts of microfinance according to these studies? What are the current debates? -> microcredit_impacts-debats
BLOGS & SITES
To go further and discover the microfinance activities around the world, some blogs and sites to visit:
- CERISE, center for research and publication that develops tools to measure performance
- Babyloan, french web platform for microcredit, and its blog
- Kiva, first web platform for microcredit, and its blog
- Microcredit Summit
- Entrepreneurs Du Monde (Entrepreneurs of the World)
- ADIE, microcredit in France
CONFERENCES
# CONVERGENCES 2015“Initiated in 2008 by ACTED, Convergences 2015 is a permanent forum of exchange to strengthen synergies between experts and practitioners of microfinance, coming from sectors of the social economy, finance, civil society or new technologies. By building bridges between these different sectors, ACTED hopes to help make microfinance a sustainable economic model that will effectively reduce poverty in the world, as it was set in 2000 by the Millennium Declaration of the United Nations.” We participed to the workshop #3 “Evaluate and promote social performance of microfinance”.
Conference Agenda: -> Programme Deuxieme Forum Convergences 2015
Minute of the Workshop -> Convergences 2015 - Compte-Rendu Table Ronde #3
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