CrossFire on Microfinance

'Microfinance does not usually serve the very poor, for whom it can represent a route into debt rather than a way out of poverty.'

By

Jamie M. Zimmerman,

New America Foundation

and Sam Daley-Harris

June 2009 |

ABSTRACT: In our regular debate between two experts, Crossfire invites Sam Daley-Harris and Jamie Zimmerman to argue the case surrounding: 'Microfinance does not usually serve the very poor, for whom it can represent a route into debt rather than a way out of poverty'.

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