The Asian Development Bank (ADB), a multilateral development finance institution, promotes economic and social progress by fighting poverty in Asia and the Pacific.

The Virtual Library on Microcredit is intended to be a repository of information on alternative, non-conventional financial systems and microcredit issues. Community mobilization and enviro-economic development also find a place here.

Click on a photo above for a client story Working to ensure that 100 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, are receiving credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by the year 2005. Navigation: Microcredit Summit +5: Register Online Today! + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Africa Region Microcredit ...

ABOUT CALMEADOW CALMEADOW is a registered Canadian not-for-profit charity with over fifteen years of experience in microfinance. Based in Toronto, CALMEADOW focuses its efforts on mobilizing and managing capital for direct investment in developing microfinance institutions in Latin America and Africa. We believe that providing access to affordable, responsive and sustainable financial services ...

Quarterly magazine published by the IMF and World Bank, presenting articles and book reviews on international economics and finance, and economic development.