Benchmarking the financial performance, growth, and outreach of greenfield microfinance institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa (English)

In recent years there has been a rapid increase in the presence and growth of greenfield microfinance institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper uses regressions to benchmark those African greenfields relative to other microfinance providers and finds that greenfields grew faster in terms of deposits and lending, improved their profitability to levels comparable to the top microfinance institutions, and substantially increased their lending to...

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Bull,Greta L.;

Cull,Robert J.;

Harten,Sven;

Nishida,Ippei;
Document Date
2014/09/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS7029
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Africa,
Region
Africa,
Disclosure Date
2014/09/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Benchmarking the financial performance, growth, and outreach of greenfield microfinance institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Keywords
Finance & Private Sector Development

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Bull,Greta L.; Cull,Robert J.; Harten,Sven; Nishida,Ippei.

Benchmarking the financial performance, growth, and outreach of greenfield microfinance institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 7029 Washington, DC: World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/935191468191647988

Benchmarking the financial performance, growth, and outreach of greenfield microfinance institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa (English)

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