MicroPlace & eBay: Bringing transparency to microfinance

One kind of interesting component to the MicroPlace story is, we're owned by eBay, which is for social entrepreneur Chinese.

Our job (similar to eBay) is to just provide information and let the investor decide, you know, what's important to you.

You might care about maximizing and you're trying to get a five percent instrument, but that is an organization that reaches poor and not the very poor. Or you might care about getting one percent return, that's fine with you because that organization is targeting the very poorest of the poor. Right? So, again, we're supposed to lend.

We don't advocate one or another, we just arm you with the information you need.

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• microplace
• microfinance
• microloans
• eBay
• poverty
• alleviation
• socially responsible investing