Those that opt to stay at home can apply for government micro-loans to start a business.
The Act includes student loan forgiveness programs, expanded access to micro-loans, and increased investment in entrepreneurship education.
Through Agrofinanzas, a Mexican financial institution, it also offers the farmers micro-loans and other kinds of financial assistance.
Muhammad Yunus is a global leader in anti-poverty efforts, and pioneered the use of "micro-loans" to provide credit to poor individuals.
According to the New York Federal Reserve, denial rates in 2011 were higher for businesses seeking micro-loans than for those applying for larger amounts.
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Despite pressure from policy makers, it does not make sense from a commercial standpoint for large banks to deliver micro-loans over their costly infrastructures.
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The teens also make and sell products at the center's bakery, which helps fund the program, and the foundation offers micro-loans to help them start their own businesses.
The generals have shown some degree of political savvy: they promise that several of Mr Thaksin's most popular programmes, including cheap health-care and a micro-loans scheme to cut rural poverty, will continue.
Although she wants to make money, Kelly also wants some of the profits to go towards micro-finance loans for people in developing countries.
For example, the path breaking work of Muhammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank shows that small micro-credit loans given to women are nearly always paid back and that the funds are used to invest in businesses, that provide funds to educate children and lift families out of poverty.
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Micro-credit programmes provide low interest loans for the economically marginalised who cannot gain access to credit from conventional banks.
While CDFIs are not technically part of the micro-lending trend, they still provide small businesses with loans.
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Kiva teams up with micro-finance organizations on the ground, which vet the borrowers to help ensure they can repay their loans (about 98% do, as did Tursunova).
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