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A Systems View Across Time and Space

Table 2 Number of people served by microcredit

From: Dialectic evolution through the social innovation process: from microcredit to microfinance

 

Minimum number of MFIs reporting

Customers served (millions)

Number of poorest in first loan (millions)

Numbers of women among the poorest (millions)

Percentage of women among the poorest

31 December 2003

2,931

81

55

45

82.5

31 December 2009

3,589

190

128

105

81.7

31 December 2010

3,652

205

138

113

81.9

31 December 2011

3,703

195

124

  
  1. Source: State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report 2004, 2011, and 2012 (Daley-Harris 20042011; Maes and Reed 2012; Reed 2013).