# Micro-credit

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Avinash Persaud
- Year: 2005
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Economics, Business and management
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/micro-credit)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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?

## Lectures

1. [Micro-credit](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/micro-credit/881f6e13b9cd) (YouTube)