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'Instead, informal systems and relationships, including loans from neighbors or relatives, and rotating nest egg/ credit clubs, have filled this gap. While such solutions have worked for some and are often the barely option available, they hobo be inconsistent and undependable during times of tremendous need. In addition, poor entrepreneurs can become trapped in vicious cycles of adoption from local moneylenders, who may demand exorbitant absorb rates.Tradition tout ensembley, coasts were unwilling to abide loans to poor entrepreneurs due to the sensed risk. Common concerns included the fact that the unbanked were often illiterate, had no collateral, no prior credit history, and were not assiduous by anyone other than themselves. However, in 1976, Muhammad Yunus, seen by umpteen s the visionary behind the microfinance movement, bucked conventional intelligence and loaned the equivalent of $27 of his own money to 1 This section is excerpted and modified from the Stanford 6SB case: Equity deposit (A), case no.E-260. Bethany Coates prepared this case under the control of Professor Garth Saloner as the basis for class intervention rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation. Copyright 2008 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. To order copies or request permission to reproduce materials, e-mail the causal agent Writing Office at: [email protected] stanford. du or write: Case Writing Office, Stanford Graduate trail of Business, 518 Memorial Way, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5015. No part of this payoff may be reproduced, stored in a convalescence system, drilld in a spreadsheet, or communicable in any form or by any means ” electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or 0th the Stantord Graduate rail of Business. Kiva E-288 erwise wit hout the permission ot some poor craftsmen in Jobra, Bangladesh.After all of the borrowers repaid, he repeated the experiment with to a greater extent villages, and over the years, grew his series of xperiments into a multibillion dollar bank that has provided small loans to over 5 million raft worldwide. Years later, Yunus noted, â€Å"At Grameen, we dont have any profound instrument between the lender and the borrower…. Everybody asks, What will regain if nobody pays vertebral column? I say, ‘But everybody pays back, so why should I worry about Grameen wedge charged 20 percent interest and reinvested all but 10 percent of earnings back into its operations.As Grameen grew, other leading microfinance institutions (MFIs), including ACCION International and Opportunity International, began to publish and based their work on the same grizzly ideas as Yunus: that the poor could reliably repay their loans, with interest, and could use the profits to grow their businesses. Mission-driven, nonprofit MFIs also entered the market. These organizations tended to rent very rural or otherwise unapproachable clients, even at great cost. They were able to provide financial services, including credit, tailored to the unique needs and limitations of the poor.\r\n'