Chapter 1. Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business - Microfinance in Global History from the Late Medieval … Banks -- Chapter 11. Institution and practices of social assistant: Monte di Pietà of Rome -- Part III. Microfinance … -- Chapter 12. Endowed Charities: The Microfinance System Used by Charitable Institutions in Catalonia (18th century) -- Chapter …

In a number of European countries microfinance evolved from informal beginnings during the eighteenth and nineteenth …, microfinance meant financial intermediation between microsavings and microcredit, and was powered by intermediation. Legal … century when microfinance became part of the formal banking sector. In Germany, the former microfinance institutions now …