Ending World Poverty or Profiteering from the Poor?: Chuck Waterfield at TEDxPhoenixville

Chuck Waterfield has over 25 years experience in microfinance, starting with a practical field experience in Haiti and Bolivia at the beginning of the microfinance movement. He is the most recognized trainer in financial analysis and planning for the global industry, with more than 3,000 microfinance professionals having been trained in his courses. As a global expert in product pricing, he is CEO and Founder of MicroFinance Transparency, a non-profit established in 2008 dedicated to resolving the lack of transparent pricing in the microfinance industry. His work helps to promote ethical and responsible practice in the industry through promoting truth-in-lending practices and advocating an intentional balance between the prices charged and the profits generated on microloans. His goal is to help create a clear distinction between microfinance and the moneylenders that the industry was created to displace.

www.mftransparency.org

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