KIEV, Oct. 27 ??“ By the end of this year the credit portfolio within the microcrediting program in Ukraine can grow approximately 17.7% from $340 mln to at least $400 mln, the program's press service reported.

It said that in September the program's member-banks increased the number of issued credits 1.5 times in comparison with the same period of the past year to over 10,000.