For information about debt in New Zealand please download the following documents:
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\n\nNew Zealand Herald, Kiwibank, Nga Tangata Microfinance Trust take top, 22 November 2013
\n\tRadio NZ 9 to Noon, Helping people to get out of debt and avoid loan sharks, 22 November 2013
\n\tDominion Post, More needs to be done to curb payday lenders November 2013
\n\tYahoo News, Interest rate cap 'also needed to tackle problem debt‘, May 2014
\n\tThe Salvation Army published their Moving Targets report in February 2016. There is a summary and the full report
\n\tShort interview with Radio NZ Checkpoint.
\n\tDecember 2017: Our Executive Officer, several Financial Mentors and clients provided the information for this article on our loans.
\n\tStuff interview with clients and our EO on payday lenders and our loans.
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\n\nNga Tangata Microfinance Trust has made a submission to the Consumer Commission on Consumer Credit Fees Guidelines.
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Mitigating Poverty with Microcredit, 2013, Office of the Children’s Commissioner
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\n\nNew Zealand's debt society and child poverty, 2014, CPAG
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\n\nNga Tangata Microfinance Evaluation 2016
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\n\nChild Poverty Monitor 2017
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\n\nCommerce Commission media release reporting the closing down of a lender for charging borrowers unreasonable fees and excess interest.
\n\nArticle on high interest with client of Nga Tangata Microfinance May 2016.
\n\nArticle on Google Ads banning payday lenders.
\n\n"until there are jobs you can't be mad at me for being unemployed, until there are homes you can't be mad at me for being homeless" Linda Tirado.
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