Sentence examples for microfinance loans from inspiring English sources

Microfinance loans – or microcredit – are small.

Some argue that demand for microfinance loans is elastic: borrowers respond strongly to changes in the interest rate.

It might make sense to offer microfinance loans to entrepreneurs to buy netbooks and provide information services.

The company uses a proportion of its revenues to provide low-cost microfinance loans to small businesses.

At another co-operative in Golba Village, 48 women are using microfinance loans to buy goats and grow haricot beans.

M-banking schemes can be combined with microfinance loans, extending access to credit and enabling users to establish a credit history.

"The returns on a student loan take longer to materialize and require larger amounts than the typical microfinance loan".

Thanks to a microfinance loan, she was able to buy a basic handset and a roof-mounted antenna to ensure a reliable signal.

Bandhan, a no-frills company based in West Bengal, now has over 4m borrowers and the largest microfinance loan book in the country.

The administration and servicing costs on a microfinance loan, they estimate, are five or six times the expense, proportionately, on a standard bank loan.

That farmer then applied for a microfinance loan to buy his own precision leveller, and is charging a fee to neighbouring farms to level them".