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Partner description:

Banco do Povo is a microfinance organization operating out of São Paulo offering microfinance loans to populations with little or no access to financial services. Banco do Povo Crédito Solidário began operations in 1999 as a nonprofit organization offering microcredit through solidarity group lending methodologies focused on the poorest segment of the population. The potential market for microfinance in Brazil is huge, but less than 2 percent of the country’s microentrepreneurs have access to loans. The market is also dominated by banks that only provide heavily subsidized loans that don’t reach low-income entrepreneurs.