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Global Business: Microlending 2

22/12/2009

Microlending 2

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Peter Day examines the pros and cons of "micro lending" in Bangladesh, where it started.

This week a global financial phenomenon for the poor: Peter Day is in Bangladesh examining the pros and cons of micro lending on the ground, where it all started.

Peter Day examines the microlending phenomenon in Bangladesh, the country where this global financial movement to bring  credit to the poor began.  He asks  how sustainable it is as the micro finance organisations grow and mature. And wonders how micro lending can avoid the problems experienced by the rest of the banking sector.

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