‘Extraordinary achievement’ for poor

Despite the bleak spectre of a world-wide recession, the decade-long Microcredit Summit Campaign has surpassed its goal of providing access to microcredit for self-employment to more than one hundred million of the world's poorest families. Factoring in family members, micro-loans designed to ena...

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