1. An Examination of the Microcredit Movement
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2001
   An examination of the microcredit movement, its history, how it functions, and future trends.
2. Grameen Bank
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   A microfinance organization and community development bank started in Bangladesh that makes small loans (known as microcredit or "grameencredit" to the impoverished without requiring collateral.
3. The Microfinance Delusion
   Marred by Wall Street-Style Greed, Profiteering, Client Abuse, and Market Chaos
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   By celebrating self-help and individual entrepreneurship, and by implicitly discrediting all forms of collective effort, such as trade unions, social movements, cooperatives, public spending, a pro-poor ‘developmental state’ and – most of all – collective moves to ensure a more equitable redistribution of wealth and power, microfinance fits in well with the ideology of neoliberal policy-makers.
4. Microfinance or Debt Trap? What the Poor Don't Know
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   Qazi's article outlines how poorly designed microfinance initiatives harm rather than help low income borrowers.
5. The Power of a Dollar
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   Microcredit is nothing more than a socially validated way for financial elites to exploit the poor.

Experts on Microfinanzas in the Sources Directory

1. International Development Law Organization