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Tags: NGO, social development
Categories: Economics & Finance
Nonprofit organization born out of an idea conceived during the first United Nations World Conference on Women, held in Mexico City in 1975, and provides strategic support, technical assistance and information to a global network of 40 independent microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks that offer credit and other financial services to low-income entrepreneurs in the developing world, with a particular focus on women.
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_World_Banking)
