
About
Micro-credit - the commercial lending of small amounts of money to those who would otherwise not have access to credit - seems such a worthy idea and the oft-cited example of the Grameen Bank excites many. However, there are precious few other examples of success. Is micro-credit a concept that can work in Merseyside as well as Maputo? What determines success or failure?
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- Gresham College
- Speaker
- Professor Avinash Persaud
- Year
- 2005
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Economics, Business and management
- Source
- Gresham College
- Licence
- Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
- Attribution
- Gresham College states: "We positively encourage the use of the Gresham College lecture transcripts, audio and video files for educational purposes. However, we do not allow use of Gresham College materials for commercial, personal or institutional gain."
- Who can watch
- Gresham College gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed
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