Sentence examples for loans to groups from inspiring English sources

If you make small, uncollateralised business loans to groups of poor women, they almost always repay them on time.

Aid agencies gave Mohammad Yunus, the father of microfinance, some of the money he used to experiment with unsecured business loans to groups of poor Bangladeshi women.

Root and a few other specialist lenders are showing the same is true of bigger loans to groups of subsistence farmers.

It was a growing industry, especially in India, where institutions helped make up for the lack of banking access by lending to the poor outside of the traditional banking system, often in the form of loans to groups of friends or neighbors.

But slowly a consensus has begun to form, particularly in Latin America, that this kind of specialisation makes it easier to build efficient (and therefore sustainably helpful) financial institutions.Early on, financial institutions affiliated to ACCION offered "solidarity loans"—small loans to groups of five people that were collectively guaranteed.

Much of the lending is based on Yunus' original idea making loans to groups of women and relying on peer pressure from the members to ensure repayment.

"The idea is to build confidence with the banks so that eventually they'll give loans to group members".

A federal judge in Nevada has approved $220 million in loans to Washington Group from a group of banks including Credit Suisse First Boston, Bank of America, Bank of Montreal and Bank One, Mr. Washington said.

Another $2.1 million went to Seedco, an agency that promotes community development, to provide loans to nonprofit groups directly affected by the disaster.

So they write checks or make low- or no-interest loans to progressive groups or other organizations they believe in, or friends in need.

The city's arts budget is now to be handled via an independently-managed "culture fund" which will guarantee half the old budget, and offer low-interest loans to arts groups, as well as being able to solicit money from charity.