If you think "microlending" is just about helping a street vendor in India buy a cart or getting a new sewing machine for a seamstress in Tanzania, think again. ❋ Jonnelle Marte (2010)
But Web sites that specialize in "microlending" -- small loans mainly to the working poor -- say they're thriving as they address both issues. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Social lending sites are different from so-called microlending sites like Kiva. org, a nonprofit organization that allow donors to make zero-interest loans to specific causes around the globe. ❋ Unknown (2010)
According to nj.com, the movement is also referred to as "microlending" in which the loans will help benefit businesses that have difficulty receiving a loan through banks. ❋ Deborah Sweeney (2011)
The proposition: If poor people from Bangladesh to Bolivia can be good credit risks, as a global boom in so-called microlending has proved, why not the millions of immigrants working in the United States? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Cemex opened a kind of microlending plan that offered low-cost building products and donated cheap cement to local block associations affiliated with the Chávez regime. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Support Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries With Kiva: Kiva is an international non-profit organization that facilitates "microlending" for ... ❋ Unknown (2009)
Prime Minister Hasina has called Yunus a "blood-sucker of the poor" and criticized Grameen's microlending practices. ❋ Unknown (2011)
There were some more recent efforts that have not yet been proven to be failures (e.g., microlending), plus a lot of discussion about whether development was really a health rather than an economic problem (i.e., many least developed countries suffer disproportionately from malaria, AIDS, etc.), but it did not leave you very optimistic. ❋ Unknown (2010)
KIVA.org lets anyone with as little as $25 to spare join in microlending. ❋ Valerie Tarico (2011)
The microlending bank currently has nearly 9 million borrowers in Bangladesh, 97% of whom are women. ❋ Unknown (2011)
It's a shame that boingboing is only highlighting the negative aspect to this story instead of the responsiveness of Kiva to concerns or the general benefits of microlending. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Or, could it be, that (under the surface, I don't think that this is conscious in most cases) a fair few people are treating this microlending site more or less like Neopets, or one of its ilk? ❋ Unknown (2009)
I'm not sure what's wrong with this, except for the vague sense that we feel like we need to have our exact physical dollars are actually making into the hands of the entrepreneur we picked -- possibly we should be sending bills in envelopes to the microlending partners, and have them hand it over to the entrepreneur. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Vikram Akula, chairman of SKS Microfinance and one of of the best-known figures in microlending, resigned his post. ❋ Unknown (2011)
