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By Betsy Cummings
Published: Thursday, January 27, 2005
It used to be that a $50 microloan to start an embroidery kiosk or other modest enterprise was a gateway out of poverty for women in poor countries. Now, some of them are telling aid groups that that is no longer enough. Rather, they want hundreds [...]

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By BETSY CUMMINGS
Published: January 27, 2005
Correction Appended
Photo: Bangladeshi women gathered at a home in Dhaka recently to pay installments on microloans they received from Grameen Bank, which was founded to help the poor become small-business owners. (Photo by Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters)
It used to be that a $50 microloan to start an embroidery kiosk [...]