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MicroPlace Launches Exclusive Women's Investment to Commemorate World Poverty Day and Give Women Worldwide the Chance for a Better Life
Published in Women's Health Weekly, October 30th, 2008
MicroPlace.com, an online brokerage specializing in socially responsible investments that address poverty, announced a new female-focused microfinance investment opportunity. The Women's Empowerment investment, directing loans largely towards female borrowers, was launched to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, on October 17, a United Nations' sanctioned day committed to presenting and promoting activities centered on the eradication of poverty and destitution. Over 1.2 billion of the world's working poor subsist on less than $1 a day, and 60 percent of them are women.(2)
"About 84 percent of all microfinance borrowers are women(3)," said Tracey...
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