RESOURCES
Links About Poverty and Microfinance
www.cgap.org
— The Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest is a consortium of
bilateral and multilateral donor agencies that support microfinance.
www.cmef.com
— The Council for Microfinance Equity Funds (CMEF) is the first
membership organization bringing together the leading private entities
that make equity investments in microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the
developing world. The Council’s members seek both social and financial
returns from their investments in these institutions, all of which
provide a range of financial services to poor households in developing
countries.
www.developmentgateway.org/microfinance
— Microfinance on the Development Gateway is an online community of
more than 6,000 microfinance professionals from 150 countries. They
seek to provide microfinance institutions with a platform to access and
share practical information with a goal to improve the effectiveness
and sustainability of microfinance institutions around the world.
www.earthtrends.wri.org/povlinks/index.php — Earth Trends Poverty Resource has poverty profiles and poverty maps for most regions and countries.
www.gdrc.org — The Global Development Research Center's Virtual Library on Microcredit.
www.gfusa.org
— Grameen Foundation USA (GFUSA) is a global nonprofit organization
that combines microfinance, new technologies, and innovation to empower
the world's poorest people to escape poverty.
www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp — Global Issues’ site includes links, commentary and statistics on poverty, globalization and sustainable development.
www.grameen-info.org
— The Grameen Bank Project was born in the village of Jobra,
Bangladesh, in 1976 under the direction of Professor Muhammad Yunus. In
1983, GB transformed into a formal bank; GB provides credit and other
microfinance products to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh.
www.mixmarket.org
— The MIX Market strives to facilitate exchanges and investment flows,
promote transparency and improve reporting standards in the
microfinance industry.
www.marriottschool.byu.edu/microfinance
— The Journal of Microfinance is an exciting forum for the sharing of
ideas and information pertaining to the practice of microfinance and
microenterprise development.
www.microcreditsummit.org
— The Microcredit Summit Campaign is working to ensure that 175 million
of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those
families, are receiving credit for self-employment and other financial
and business services by the end of 2015.
www.microfinance.com
— A compilation of reports and academic papers about microfinance, and
a listing of organizations involved in the microfinance industry.
www.seepnetwork.org
— The Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network is an
association of North American organizations that support small
enterprise programs in the developing world.
www.undp.org — The United Nations Development Programme.
