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When Microfinance Creates Competition Instead of Opportunity

I started selling vegetables with my microloan but three other women in the same program are now selling vegetables too and none of us are making enough money anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Individual solutions to systemic problems can create new forms of the same scarcity they're trying to address.

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“Where Are You with Microfinance — small loans and global poverty?”

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