Microfinance provides financial services to low-income clients and solidarity lending groups, including consumers and the self-employed.
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- Kiva Offer people in the industrialized world the opportunity to lend small sums of money through a network of institutions, to help entrepreneurs in developing countries start self-sufficient businesses. Includes information about the loan cycle, reports on current and earlier projects, and repayment statistics.
- United Prosperity Encourages members of the public to combat poverty and multiply the impact of their money by providing a loan guarantee system for small entrepreneurs to finance and grow their businesses.
- Microfinance Transparency Promotes transparent pricing in the microfinance world by collecting interest rate data and publishing educational information about how interest rates work.
- Wokai Provides a microfinance platform that connects contributors from around the world with entrepreneurs in rural China. Includes a video showing how the scheme works.
- India Microfinance Business news portal providing information about the microfinance sector in the region.
- MIX Market Provides data on the global microfinance sector.
- FINCA International Non-profit microfinance organization providing financial services to the world's lowest-income entrepreneurs.
- Lendwithcare.org Allows individuals to provide microfinance loans to small business entrepreneurs in developing countries. Created by Care International, loans can be made online.
- MicroCapital Provides world news and market reports on microfinance. Includes archives.
- Veecus Social network geared towards microfinance and peer-to-peer lending. Members can browse projects of microentrepreneurs and personal pages of users and lenders.
- Appui au Développement Autonome (ADA) Microfinance organization based in Luxembourg. Financial support and technical services for microfinance institutions. Publications, library and database. Specialised in French publications.