National Microfinance Strategies
Lugar y fecha de publicación: USA, Washington, June 2008
Over 30 countries - mostly in Africa - have developed national microfinance strategies and the number is increasing. This trend appears to be fueled by microfinance’s heightened visibility and is almost always initiated by donors.
Are national microfinance strategies always effective? Or even needed? With the rapid emergence of new public and private actors in microfinance, even a well-designed national microfinance strategy can quickly become irrelevant. While the jury is still out on whether national microfinance strategies contribute to expanding poor people’s access to finance, read about common features, early benefits and challenges and how donors can avoid some pitfalls when developing these strategies in a new CGAP Brief (59 Ko, English version).
National_Microfinance_Strategies_CGAP.pdf