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Social Finance is using financial instruments to
promote Decent Work. It means finance - sustainable finance - with a social
goal. It is about credit, savings and other products that help the
poor to cope better with risk, take advantage of income-generating
opportunities, organize and have a voice. Social Finance is also about promoting
and encouraging those institutions that cater
to the financial needs of the working poor, including women groups and small and medium
enterprises that create jobs. Social Finance is about financial sector policies
that set incentives to open up the financial to the working majority and create
an enabling environment in which microfinance institutions can operate.
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