(Picture from Microfinance Gateway)

I've been trying to figure out how to use these microfinance links that I've been saving up, but haven't come up with an adequate solution. So instead of crafting a story around these, I'll post the links here as a resource and focus on covering new and exciting stories about microfinance in the future:

*An overview of Muhammad Yunus's work in the micro loan arena.

*A 2003 study on the increase of microloans to businesses in the U.S. In 2005, however, some banks were seen as dropping their microcredit functions.

*Microloans in Malaysia ease pain of HIV/AIDS.

*In Central Asia, providing microcredit to the poor is good business.

*A story of an Albanian baker who has prospered through microfinance.

*The explosive growth of microcredit in India.

*In pdf, a case study on microloans in Bolivia.

*Predicting micro-loan defaults using probabilistic neural networks.

*Microloan help in Wales.

*Habitat for Humanity's use of microfinance.

*The Microcredit Summit will be held in Nova Scotia in November.