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Chemen Lavi Miyò ("pathway to a better life" in Creole) is one of several pilots the Foundation is testing to explore how safety nets and livelihood training can be linked with financial services to create pathways for the poorest to move out of extreme poverty. Watch video >

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We have replaced 'Notes from the Field' section with our new Foundation Blog that now can be more easily followed and shared. Our team will continue to blog about our Partners and the people who have been affected by our programs and their stories that move and inspire us.

The MasterCard Foundation President & CEO Reeta Roy is a regular contributor to Stanford Social Innovation Review's Opinion Blog. You can read it on the Foundation Blog.

         
   
         
 

Suggested Reading

Access for All: Building Inclusive Financial Systems
Brigit Helms, Published by the World Bank in 2006

Backgrounder on VSLAs (Foundation Briefing Note) PDF
Jennifer Singer, 2008

BRAC Development Institute - A graduation pathway for Haiti’s poorest:
Lessons learnt from Fonkoze
PDF
Karishma Huda and Anton Simanowitz, © Practical Action Publishing, 2009

Good Practice Guidelines for Funders of Microfinance PDF
© 2006 Consultative Group to Assist the Poor/The World Bank

Microfinance Handbook, An Institutional and Financial Perspective
Joanna Ledgerwood, Published in 1999 by The World Bank

Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day
Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven
Published in 2009 by Princeton University Press

The Microfinance Revolution, Sustainable Finance for the Poor
Marguerite Robinson, Published in 2001 by The World Bank and the Open Society Institute

The Poor and Their Money: Microfinance from a Twenty-First Century Consumers Perspective
Sukhwinder Singh Arora and Stuart Rutherford, Published in 2009 by Practical Action

Youth Savings in Developing Countries Trends in Practice, Gaps in Knowledge PDF
A Report of the YouthSave Consortium, May 2010

   

Useful Information

CGAP
www.cgap.org

Microfinance Gateway
www.microfinancegateway.org

Microfinance Information Exchange
www.themix.org

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