During preparation of the Benin Social Fund Project, all levels of society indicated that lack of access to credit was a major problem for poor people. At the same time, there was reluctance to put in a micro-credit component, as an assessment of this type of component in social funds had yielded mixed results. The Bank was already supporting the Second Rural Credit Project, providing technical support to a national association of cooperative savings...
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2002/03/01
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2010/07/01
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Holding the door open : facilitating access to microcredit in the Benin Social Fund
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financial system
Citation
Elder,John A.; Tovo,Maurizia.
Holding the door open : facilitating access to microcredit in the Benin Social Fund (English). Social Funds Innovation Notes ; Vol. 2, no. 3 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/466831468198857607