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Author: Debapratim Purkayastha Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Microfinance Institutions (MFI) promise to deliver poverty alleviation while being sustainable. However, in recent years, the idea of microfinance has been questioned. The study of MFIs or their business environment from a strategic management perspective has not been taken up. This is despite the fact that MFIs promise financial inclusion of the bottom-of-the-pyramid segment and, in turn, lead to sustainable development. Moreover, MFIs have to regularly negotiate various tradeoffs, the study of which could be interesting from a strategic perspective. For instance, empirical evidence suggests that MFIs face a tradeoff between profitability (financial sustainability) and outreach (reaching the poorest customers). A study of the ecosystem of MFIs from the strategic perspective would also be of interest to other stakeholders such as donors, investors, banks and government. For instance, subsidies can play an important role to help MFIs serve the poorest segment. Such subsidies may be in the form of donor and government grants, when MFIs have access to capital at below-market interest rates. This has important implications for policy makers as it shows one way where right kind of regulations could help MFIs. On the other hand, the rapid growth of microfinance has brought increasing calls for regulation, but complying with prudential regulations and the associated supervision can be especially costly for MFIs hurting their sustainability. In India, MFIs have been accused of seeking profits at the expense of the poor, attracting stringent regulations that stifled their growth. Regulatory interventions could help the MFIs to scale up and professionalize, or it may simply stifle their development. This paper attempts to approach the issue of regulatory impact on the microfinance industry from a strategic management perspective. The discussion in this paper entails a literature review that shows the importance of the industry and the regulatory effects on a firm; it then looks at some of the tradeoffs faced by MFIs and also looks at the literature on regulations of MFIs. An attempt has been made to identify the gaps in the existing literature and present them in the conclusion.
Author: Debapratim Purkayastha Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Microfinance Institutions (MFI) promise to deliver poverty alleviation while being sustainable. However, in recent years, the idea of microfinance has been questioned. The study of MFIs or their business environment from a strategic management perspective has not been taken up. This is despite the fact that MFIs promise financial inclusion of the bottom-of-the-pyramid segment and, in turn, lead to sustainable development. Moreover, MFIs have to regularly negotiate various tradeoffs, the study of which could be interesting from a strategic perspective. For instance, empirical evidence suggests that MFIs face a tradeoff between profitability (financial sustainability) and outreach (reaching the poorest customers). A study of the ecosystem of MFIs from the strategic perspective would also be of interest to other stakeholders such as donors, investors, banks and government. For instance, subsidies can play an important role to help MFIs serve the poorest segment. Such subsidies may be in the form of donor and government grants, when MFIs have access to capital at below-market interest rates. This has important implications for policy makers as it shows one way where right kind of regulations could help MFIs. On the other hand, the rapid growth of microfinance has brought increasing calls for regulation, but complying with prudential regulations and the associated supervision can be especially costly for MFIs hurting their sustainability. In India, MFIs have been accused of seeking profits at the expense of the poor, attracting stringent regulations that stifled their growth. Regulatory interventions could help the MFIs to scale up and professionalize, or it may simply stifle their development. This paper attempts to approach the issue of regulatory impact on the microfinance industry from a strategic management perspective. The discussion in this paper entails a literature review that shows the importance of the industry and the regulatory effects on a firm; it then looks at some of the tradeoffs faced by MFIs and also looks at the literature on regulations of MFIs. An attempt has been made to identify the gaps in the existing literature and present them in the conclusion.
Author: Joanna Ledgerwood Publisher: World Bank Publications ISBN: 0821384317 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 304
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The purpose of the 'Microfinance Handbook' is to bring together in a single source guiding principles and tools that will promote sustainable microfinance and create viable institutions.
Author: Juliana Siwale Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This study examines the effect of regulations on microfinance institutions in Nigeria and Zambia by focusing on the post-regulation experiences and reflections of the microfinance institutions (MFIs) and their regulators. Based on in-depth interviews with the Central Banks as regulators, MFI managers, practitioners and apex microfinance associations, the study finds that regulations in both countries have managed to professionalize the sector, but their effectiveness in augmenting the centrality of social goals to microfinance and MFIs remains doubtful. The poorly designed regulations are not only undermining social goals but also sending wrong signals to would be social investors, with implications for the social image of the industry. The study further finds that regulations have neither speeded the emergence of sustainable MFIs (especially in Zambia) nor accelerated the sectors' outreach to the poor and the financially excluded. Additionally, considerable levels of political interference and poor regulation have led to unintended consequences to the sector, further frustrating the ultimate goal of extending financial services to the poor. These findings have policy and practical implications for how microfinance engages with the regulatory logic and continues to serve those at the bottom of the pyramid.
Author: David Onditi Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3668964998 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 26
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Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A+, University of Nairobi (Main Campus), course: International Business, language: English, abstract: There are a number of key principles of microfinance regulations. However, empirical research indicates that some key principles such as governance, and capital adequacy should be the main focus of the microfinance regulation and supervision. CGAP (2012) developed the Consensus guideline for the supervision and regulation of the microfinance institutions (MFIs). CGAP indicated that the MFIs should have a higher capital adequacy ratios as compared to the commercial banks since the microloans issued by the MFIs have insufficient security and the borrowers main motivation to repay the loans is the expectation that they would receive more loans. The MFIs are at a higher risk of loan delinquency contagion that can lead to a significant increase in the de-capitalization. Berger agreed with the above view by stating that MFIs need to have minimum capital adequacy as a means of helping the organizations to overcome the volatilities. The researcher thus concurs that capital adequacy should be a key principle in the regulation and supervision of the MFIs due to the volatilities associated with low collateral quality in the MFI loans, and increased risk of loan repayment delinquency. However, the principle should only apply to the MFIs that offer uncollateralized loans or in the cases where the security is not adequate to effectively cover the loan.
Author: Ira W. Lieberman Publisher: Brookings Institution Press ISBN: 0815737645 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 493
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A major source of financing for the poor and no longer a niche industry Over the past four decades, microfinance—the provision of loans, savings, and insurance to small businesses and entrepreneurs shut out of traditional capital markets—has grown from a niche service in Bangladesh and a few other countries to a significant global source of financing. Some 200 million people globally now receive support from microfinance institutions, with most of the recipients in the developing world. In the beginning, much of the microfinance industry was managed by non-governmental organizations, but today the majority of these institutions are commercial and regulated by governments, and they provide safe places for the poor to save, as well as offering much-needed capital and other financial services. Now out of infancy, the microfinance industry faces major challenges, including its ability to deal with mobile banking and other technology and concerns that some markets are now over-saturated with microfinance. How the industry deals with these and other challenges will determine whether it will continue to grow or will be subsumed within the larger global financial sector. This book is based on the results of a workshop at Lehigh University among thirty-four leaders in the industry. The editors, working with contributions from more than a dozen leading authorities in the field, tell the important story of how microfinance developed, how it has met the needs of hundreds of millions of people, and they address key questions about how it can continue to meet those needs in the future.
Author: Ashley Hubka Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Microfinance has demonstrated success as a poverty reduction strategy, but the critical challenge now is to make microfinance sustainable and ubiquitous. By increasing microfinance' s scope (number of individuals reached), impact (effect on well-being of borrowers), depth (ability to reach the poorest of the poor) and the number of financial products, it can be made available not just to the moderate poor at whom it has traditionally been targeted, but also to the extreme poor and the vulnerable non-poor. Bringing about this change in the scale will require the commercialization of microfinance, with MFIs transforming themselves into formal financial institutions, and a shift in the nature and degree of government involvement. Governments can encourage sustainable, market-based microfinance by: 1) eliminating unfair competition from public institutions; 2) undertaking regulatory reform; and 3) improving the business environment.
Author: J. Gueyie Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137301929 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 259
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Microfinance in developing countries is a collection of studies by leading researchers in the field of microfinance. It discusses key issues that the rapidly growing microfinance industry currently faces, and offers interesting views and analysis of topical matters concerning the microfinance realm.
Author: R. Mersland Publisher: Springer ISBN: 113739966X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 329
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Research on MFI performance is still in its infancy. MFIs are hybrid organizations with dual objectives. Performance studies in microfinance are therefore less straightforward compared to performance studies in traditional banking research. This book contains new MFI performance research by top scholars from across the globe.
Author: A. P. Pati Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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In this paper an empirical study has been made to compare the social (outreach related) and financial (cost, profit and sustainability related) performances of regulated microfinance institutions (MFIs) with non-regulated MFIs and to identify the causal variables of such performances. With the help of a panel data set of last five years i.e. from 2008-09 to 2012-13 it is found that the preference of Indian MFIs for regulatory structure has not been culminated with better performance. Through the causal study, which is performed through fixed effect regression model no impact of regulation is visible. Among the important explaining variables capital structure, size of operating expenditure and quality of assets are found to be prominently responsible for outreach and sustainability of Indian MFIs.
Author: Debapratim Purkayastha
Author: Debapratim Purkayastha
Author: Joanna Ledgerwood
Author: Juliana Siwale
Author: David Onditi
Author: Ira W. Lieberman
Author: Ashley Hubka
Author: J. Gueyie
Author: R. Mersland
Author: Milford Bateman
Author: A. P. Pati