107: S.3032 - A bill to amend the Microenterprise for Self-Reliance Act of 2000 and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase assistance for the poorest people in developing countries under microenterprise assistance programs under those Acts, and for other purposes.

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107: S.3032 - A bill to amend the Microenterprise for Self-Reliance Act of 2000 and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase assistance for the poorest people in developing countries under microenterprise assistance programs under those Acts, and for other purposes.
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Radical Middle

One World - ready microcredit .

Microenterprise is the provision of tiny low-interest loans, or "microcredit", to very poor people in developing countries in order to help them start or expand self-employment ventures and pull themselves out of poverty.

Sen. Sarbanes (MD) introduced a bill that would have authorized microenterprise development grant funding at $175 million in fiscal 2003 and $200 million in fiscal 2004 - "a modest increase", says RESULTS President Sam Daley-Harris, "for one of the most cost-effective development strategies available".

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A bill to amend the Microenterprise for Self-Reliance Act of 2000 and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase assistance for the poorest people in developing countries under microenterprise assistance programs under those Acts, and for other purposes.

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