Microfinance Gateway, a microfinance website provided as a service of CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor) featuring research and other publications, industry announcements, news, events and job opportunities in the microfinance sector, has reached 10 years of operation.

Microfinance Gateway, created in 2000, began as a platform to compile relevant literature and provide a way for microfinance practitioners to share knowledge around growing questions and debates in the sector. Currently the website has a library of approximately 8,500 documents and is available in four languages.

MicroCapital thanks you for providing this unparalleled resource!

By Witt Gatchell, Research Associate

About CGAP:
Housed at the World Bank Group, CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor) is an independent policy and research center dedicated to facilitating the provision of financial access to poor people worldwide. CGAP is supported by approximately over thirty development agencies and private foundations. Its mission is to provide market intelligence, to promote standards and to offer advisory services to governments, microfinance providers, donors and investors.

Sources and Additional Information:
[1] Microfinance Gateway Press Release, “Happy 10th Anniversary Microfinance Gateway!” http://www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m/template.rc/1.1.8236/

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