Definitions
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- noun banking Lending of small amounts of money per loan as part of a
microcredit program.
Etymologies
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Examples
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If you think "microlending" is just about helping a street vendor in India buy a cart or getting a new sewing machine for a seamstress in Tanzania, think again.
Credit Crunch Gives 'Microlending' a Boost Jonnelle Marte 2010
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But Web sites that specialize in "microlending" -- small loans mainly to the working poor -- say they're thriving as they address both issues.
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Social lending sites are different from so-called microlending sites like Kiva. org, a nonprofit organization that allow donors to make zero-interest loans to specific causes around the globe.
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Social lending sites are different from so-called microlending sites like Kiva. org, a nonprofit organization that allow donors to make zero-interest loans to specific causes around the globe.
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Social lending sites are different from so-called microlending sites like Kiva. org, a nonprofit organization that allow donors to make zero-interest loans to specific causes around the globe.
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According to nj.com, the movement is also referred to as "microlending" in which the loans will help benefit businesses that have difficulty receiving a loan through banks.
Forbes.com: News Deborah Sweeney 2011
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The proposition: If poor people from Bangladesh to Bolivia can be good credit risks, as a global boom in so-called microlending has proved, why not the millions of immigrants working in the United States?
latimes.com - News 2010
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The proposition: If poor people from Bangladesh to Bolivia can be good credit risks, as a global boom in so-called microlending has proved, why not the millions of immigrants working in the United States?
latimes.com - News 2010
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Cemex opened a kind of microlending plan that offered low-cost building products and donated cheap cement to local block associations affiliated with the Chávez regime.
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Support Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries With Kiva: Kiva is an international non-profit organization that facilitates "microlending" for ...
Consumerism Commentary: A Personal Finance Blog Since 2003 2009
chained_bear commented on the word microlending
Usage on microfinance.
September 27, 2008