Microfinance helps Indian women borrow – with dignity

From Annie Banerji / Christian Science Monitor: Microfinance institutions in India are providing low-cost loans to women in remote areas who typically only have access to loan sharks. The women are using the money to break poverty cycles and start their own businesses.

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Issue Areas:

Community Wealth Building, Financial Institutions, Poverty Reduction Measures, Wellbeing Economics

Impact Areas:

Creating New Economic Paradigms, Distributed Trust and Power

Actors:

Lending, Banking, and Financial Institutions

Communities Served:

Womxn

Strategies:

Easing Economic Burdens for Individuals, Increase Education / Insights Sharing

Success Factors:

Eliminating Barriers, Empowering People, Expanding Access, Help Rather Than Punishment, Providing Cash Instead Of Goods/Services, Using Creative Financing

Geographic Region:

Asia

Countries:

India

Date:

December 12, 2022

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