This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Microfinance is becoming a big business. It started as a way to provide very small loans to people in developing countries so they could begin to move themselves out of poverty. A few hundred dolla

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The Cambodian government has ordered a limit on interest rates on small loans. The decision comes before local elections are set to take place in June. The 18 percent limit on the microfinance industry interest rates takes effect on April 1. Microfin

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Officials from some of the worlds leading banks were in the Netherlands last week for a conference on microfinance lending. The Dutch government and the nonprofit organization Women's World Banking

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Economics Report - Microcredit Is Expanding to New Products for the Poor This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Modern microfinance started with economist Muhammad Yunus. In the nineteen seventies, he started what became the Grameen Bank i

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Education Report - College Students Get Into Microfinance Lending This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Imagine that you have lost your job.You could start a sewing business at home if you had a better sewing machine and a little money to

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Finance and Economics;Microfinance in India;Road to redemption;The industry is starting to revive; 财经;印度的小额贷款;救赎之路;小额信贷蓄势再发; India'S microfinance sector was once touted as a saviour of the poor and a good bet

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STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we talk about a method that helps provide low-income people with the financial services they need to improve their lives. Organizations a

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Economics Report - Microsavings Could Mean Big Gains for the Worlds Poor 经济报道 - 小额储蓄大收益 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语经济报道。 When it comes to savings, no amount is to

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Microfinance is a fast-growing part of the financial industry in many developing countries. Micro lenders give small loans to poor people to start or expand businesses. Microcredit offers a chance to

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Microfinance Gives Voice to Rural Indian Women It all started eight years ago with a $1,000 loan to buy buffaloes. Shahnaz Begum, who had never earned a penny in her life, suddenly had a source of income, a way to educate her children and a newfound

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By Margaret Besheer Irbil 08 December 2006 In Iraq, where ethnic and sectarian conflict is killing dozens of people daily, small business loans are cutting across ethnic and religious lines to help people move forward with their lives. As VOA's Marg

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Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank Muhammad Yunus gestures as he speaks to media representatives before the opening of Africa-Middle East Microcredit Summit in Nairobi, 6 Apr 2010 Nobel Laureate Muhammed Yunus is call

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I wanted to find a solution to a problem, and I wanted to do whatever it takes to end that problem. 我想要找出问题的解答,我想要不计一切代价终结那个问题。 In the mid-1970s, Bangladesh was wracked with poverty and famine. 在

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