Fact Sheet 5: Risk Management and the Credit Risk Grading System (English version)

This fact sheet in a series of eight gives an introduction to microfinance in a Palestinian context

This document explains the vitality of the Credit Risk Grading System and how it can actively minimize risk at every stage of the lending process.

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By The Palestinian Network for Small and Microfinance

Published

January 2003

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