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Microfinance: Bill Gates foundation

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa

Timbuktu Chronicles writes that “Opportunity International, one of the world's largest microfinance organizations, today announced that it received a $2.2 million grant over three years from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that will go toward a project to develop a trans-African network of new commercial banks for the poor” [1]