Microfinance

David Hulme

Microfinance has become an important component of development, poverty reduction and economic regeneration strategy around the world. By the early twenty first century tens of millions of people in more than 100 countries were accessing services from formal and semi-formal microfinance institutions (MFIs). Much of the initial attention on microcredit came through work on Bangladesh as much-lauded Grameen Bank but, there are now many different amodels a for microfinance and many countries have s