- What is a MFI?
A microfinance institution (MFI) is a local entity that provides small-scale financial services (credit, savings, insurance) to people with no access to the traditional banking system, by giving them the resources they need to develop a business.
- The United Nations Millennium Summit
The Millennium Summit was held in 2002
in Johannesburg. Participating world leaders set an ambitious goal:
to cut poverty
in half by 2015.
to cut poverty
in half by 2015.
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Mission
Grameen Bank and Crédit Agricole are combining their efforts to fight poverty worldwide using microcredit.
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation will develop sustainable partnerships with microfinance institutions to operate in developing and emerging countries.
The Foundation is serving the cause that Professor Muhammad Yunus has been defending for over 30 years.
