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The Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (www.cgap.org) provides a Microfinance Gateway with a lot of useful information with a global perspective through the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton:

The Global Development Research Centre in Tokyo provides an extensive Virtual Library on Micro-credit, with documents available in English, French, Spanish and Japanese:

PlaNet Finance is a Paris-based NGO which uses the internet to promote development and microfinance across the world. Its newsletter, which provides a global perspective on events, news, sites and publications relevant to microfinance, is available in English, French and Spanish from the Library section of its web site:

Official list of credit institutions authorised in each EU member state, as published in the Official Journal of 28.07.1998:

US Agency for International Development's Microenterprise Innovation Project (MIP)
The MIP supports technical and financial assistance, research and training on best practice in microenterprise development and finance:

Grameen Bank, Bangladesh
Provides unsecured credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh.

Microcredit Summit Campaign (focus on the Third World/development aid)