<?xml version="1.0"?>
<oembed><version>1.0</version><provider_name>PIDE Blog</provider_name><provider_url>https://pide.org.pk/blog</provider_url><author_name>PIDE Blog</author_name><author_url>https://pide.org.pk/blog/author/usman/</author_url><title>Reducing Poverty Through Micro-finance - PIDE Blog</title><type>rich</type><width>600</width><height>338</height><html>&lt;blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="bcmb1Wvbbb"&gt;&lt;a href="https://pide.org.pk/blog/reducing-poverty-through-micro-finance/"&gt;Reducing Poverty Through Micro-finance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://pide.org.pk/blog/reducing-poverty-through-micro-finance/embed/#?secret=bcmb1Wvbbb" width="600" height="338" title="&#x201C;Reducing Poverty Through Micro-finance&#x201D; &#x2014; PIDE Blog" data-secret="bcmb1Wvbbb" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
/*! This file is auto-generated */
!function(c,d){"use strict";var e=!1,o=!1;if(d.querySelector)if(c.addEventListener)e=!0;if(c.wp=c.wp||{},c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage);else if(c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(!t);else if(!(t.secret||t.message||t.value));else if(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret));else{for(var r,s,a,i=d.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),n=d.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),l=0;l&lt;n.length;l++)n[l].style.display="none";for(l=0;l&lt;i.length;l++)if(r=i[l],e.source!==r.contentWindow);else{if(r.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3&lt;(s=parseInt(t.value,10)))s=1e3;else if(~~s&lt;200)s=200;r.height=s}if("link"===t.message)if(s=d.createElement("a"),a=d.createElement("a"),s.href=r.getAttribute("src"),a.href=t.value,!o.test(a.protocol));else if(a.host===s.host)if(d.activeElement===r)c.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)c.addEventListener("message",c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),d.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),c.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(o);else{o=!0;for(var e,t,r,s=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),a=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),i=d.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),n=0;n&lt;i.length;n++){if(!(r=(t=i[n]).getAttribute("data-secret")))r=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),t.src+="#?secret="+r,t.setAttribute("data-secret",r);if(s||a)(e=t.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),t.parentNode.replaceChild(e,t);t.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:r},"*")}}}}(window,document);
&lt;/script&gt;
</html><thumbnail_url>https://pide.org.pk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/blog-16Mar20.png</thumbnail_url><thumbnail_width>227</thumbnail_width><thumbnail_height>227</thumbnail_height><description>by Dr. Farhat Mahmood Micro-financing is a significant financial sector development that specifically impacts those without access to, or neglected by, financial institutions. The modern concept was formally introduced in the 1970s with the establishment of Grameen Bank by Professor Mohammad Yunus. Grameen is for exclusive use of the poor. Micro-finance institutions relax financial constraints [&hellip;]</description></oembed>
