MicroLending

Providing small amounts of Business Credit - a new Capital Market?

Especially effective in poor areas. International Development

Some key practices:

• use of Lending Circle to provide Peer Pressure for repayment
• use of cheap/unpaid labor to handle administration

Banker to the Poor: MicroLending and the Battle Against World Poverty ISBN:1891620118 by Muhammad Yunus of Grameen Bank

Project Enterprise in NYC

The SBA does some of this, I think.

SHARE (Self Help Association For A Regional Economy, in Massachusetts)

Accion International in Latin America

Banco Solidario - Bolivia, 1992

Multi Credit - Panama, 1991

Count Me In focuses on Women