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Give Us Credit: How access to loans and basic social services can enrich and empower peopleSmall loans to poor people, when combined with basic social services and key social development messages, improve the well-being borrowers' children -- particularly girls. Such credit empowers women, enabling them to make economic decisions and help increase family income. It is therefore an important part of the strategy to achieve the year 2000 goals for children. The development equation: Microcredit + basic social services Country experiences: Nepal, Viet Nam, Egypt, India, Kenya Sustaining and supporting microcredit initiatives Give Us Credit is based on the findings of the forthcoming study Microcredit: Lessons learned from UNICEF experiences and principles for support, by Ashok Nigam with Mohammad Mohiuddin, Division of Evaluation, Policy and Planning, UNICEF New York. It is also available as a portable document format (PDF) file (1.5 MB) for viewing with the Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have the Reader, you can retrieve one for your platform free of charge from Adobe Systems Inc., instal it according to the instructions given, and configure it for use with your World Wide Web browser. |
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