1. What is MicroNed?
MicroNed was created in 2006, as a network of the Dutch Development Finance Organisations Cordaid, Hivos, ICCO and Oxfam Novib, to cooperate on a structural basis with respect to the establishment of a specialised sector approach for microfinance. In 2008 the Rabobank Foundation joined MicroNed.
About Microfinance
- 1. What is a micro credit?
- 2. What is microfinance?
- 3. Why do poor people not go to a traditional bank?
- 4. What is a Micro Finance Institution (MFI)?
- 5. How high are repayment rates?
- 6. Why is some 75% of the clients female?
- 7. Can poor people save?
- 8. Why do MFIs charge high interest rates?
- 9. Does microfinance reach the poorest people?
- 10. How do poor people benefit from microfinance?
- 11. Is microcredit thé magic cure against poverty?


