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The Virtual Library on Microcredit

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he Virtual Library on Microcredit is a repository of information on issues related to microfinance and microcredit, including alternative, non-conventional and informal financial systems.
So what is microfinance and microcredit? Does it really help the poor out of poverty? What do we need to do?
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  • Inspiring Ideas in Microcredit
  • Improving Credit Access for Women
  • Microfinance Governance
  • Capacity Building for Microfinance
  • Finance for Microenterprises
  • Microfinance and Disasters
  • Environmental Colours of Microfinance
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  • News and Events
  • New publications on microfinance
  • Newsletters and Bulletins
  • Training Programmes
  • Investing in Microfinance
  • Archives:
    - 1997: Microcredit Summit
    - 2005: Intl. Year of Microcredit
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    Highlights of GDRC Research
  • Microcredit Lending Models
  • A Continuum of Informality of Credit
  • A Typology of Informal Credit Suppliers
  • IdeaCards: Inspiring Ideas in Microfinance
  • The Environmental Colours of Microfinance: Theory and Practice
  • The Microfinance Framework for Policy and Practice
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    What is GDRC doing now?
    		   Currently, GDRC is focussing on the role of microfinance in its non-financial role, particularly in mobilizing/activating communities and in generating social capital.
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    on GDRC
  • GDRC Programme on Informal Sector
  • Slums and Squatter Settlements
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    Keeping the Forest
    and the Trees
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