{"id":977,"date":"2012-03-07T21:08:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T03:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opengecko.com\/?p=977"},"modified":"2012-03-07T21:08:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T03:08:36","slug":"micro-credit-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/economics\/micro-credit-schemes\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro-credit Schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a nice and simple introduction to microfinance which features microcredit, as explained in the video itself.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bpSNM625LFU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You could explore this web site which is an example of a charity organisation seeking to facilitate microfinance. There is a useful video on the home page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opportunity.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Opportunity International<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Similarly, this website gives details of microcredit in practice:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.caritas.ch\/edoc\/mikro\/?lang=en\">Microcredit on Caritas.ch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Grameen Bank, founded in Bangladesh by Muhammad Yunas, is often cited as the main pioneer in the field of microfinance. This short video features Yunas and explains the concepts:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WfdD3NPgEY4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This video gives an example of apparent success:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1UugpcDjjJU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/WorldBank\"><strong>WorldBank<\/strong><\/a> provides an example from Mauritania:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xffDu_EWLWc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a nice and simple introduction to microfinance which features microcredit, as explained in the video itself. You could explore this web site which is an example of a charity organisation seeking to facilitate microfinance. There is a useful video on the home page. Opportunity International Similarly, this website gives details of microcredit in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-ib-economics","tag-microfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opengecko.com\/geckoview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}