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Impact of Government Regulation on Microfinance

dc.contributor.authorHubka, Ashley
dc.contributor.authorZaidi, Rida
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-26T15:39:26Z
dc.date.available2012-06-26T15:39:26Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractMicrofinance 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.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/9133
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/9133
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectWorld Development Report 2005
dc.titleImpact of Government Regulation on Microfinanceen
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionareaFragility, Conflict, and Violence
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-05T12:48:05.642012Z
okr.language.supporteden
okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.administrativeLatin America & Caribbean
okr.region.administrativeEurope and Central Asia
okr.relation.associatedurlhttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/5987
okr.topicConflict and Development
okr.topicFinance
okr.topicPrivate Sector
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