Microcredit & Microfinance terms

On-line resource to get acquainted with microfinance terms and issues

How do you calculate your Return on Equity (ROI)? What does leverage mean in the social investment world?

Leverage is the using long-term debt to secure funds for an organization,claims the Microcredit and Microfinance glossary compiled by the Golobal Development Research Centre.

If you are starting to have any doubts on microcredits and microfinance terms, here you can find the right answers.

The Virtual Library on Microcredit is a repository of information on alternative, non-conventional financial systems and microfinance/microcredit issues.

Look it up at http://www.gdrc.org/icm/glossary/index.html