By STEVE PROCTOR Business Editor

The queen of Spain and the president of Honduras will be among the 1,500 delegates attending an international micro-credit summit slated for Halifax next month.

Sam Daley-Harris, president of the educational and development fund involved in promoting self-employment loans for 100 million poor people around the world, said Thursday that delegates from more than 91 countries are now confirmed and will participate in more than 100 workshops or learning sessions.

The event, which will connect people who are making changes in world banking systems with those dedicated to empowering the poor around the globe, "will be like a sea of innovation," he said before a final meeting with the host organizing committee. "It will be a convergence point for business being done from the bottom up."

Micro-credit is the practice of lending money through non-traditional means to the poorer people of the world for self-employment and other financial and business services...

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