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Opportunity

• Microcredit
• Poverty Alleviation
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"Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Give a woman microcredit, she, her husband, her children and her extended family will eat for a lifetime."

Bono

 

 

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. "

Henry David Thoreau

 

 

"The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. "

Jeffrey D. Sachs

 

 

"Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty."

Jonathan Morduch, Chair, UN Expert Group on Poverty Statistics

 

 

"Microfinance is an idea whose time has come."

Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General

 

 

"Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge. And while the lack of financial services is a sign of poverty, today it is also understood as an untapped opportunity to create markets, bring people in from the margins and give them the tools with which to help themselves."

Kofi Annan

 

 

"When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve."

Madeleine K. Albright and John Doerr, May 2004

 

 

"One of the most distressing consequences of globalization is the increase in the wealth of a few while hundreds of millions of people still live in poverty. However, microfinance is a powerful tool to begin to change that."

Marilou van Golstein Brouwers

 

 

"Microcredit is about giving hope."

Natalie Portman

 

 

"Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship."

Pierre Omidyar

 

 

"At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development."

Jeffrey D. Sachs

 

 

"Where once the poor were commonly seen as passive victims, microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge. And while the lack of financial services is a sign of poverty, today it is also understood as an untapped opportunity to create markets, bring people in from the margins and give them the tools with which to help themselves."

Kofi Annan