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Microfinance in Rio: A Brief Overview

By Nate Lawrence • April 11, 2013

Clique aqui para Português Since the founding of the Grameen Bank in 1976, the use of microfinance in development economics has proven a remarkably effective method of providing credit to the impoverished. Often lacking access […]