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Financial Sustainability and Outreach of MFIs in Ethiopia: Does Ownership Form Matter?

In: Microfinance Institutions

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  • Gashaw Tadesse Abate
  • Carlo Borzaga
  • Kindie Getnet

Abstract

The way ownership is organized and its effects on social and economic performance have been at the centre of policy discussions in microfinance (Mersland, 2009; Mersland and Strøm, 2009). Over the last decades, shareholder-owned microfinance institutions have been promoted as an efficient ownership form over non-government and member-owned microfinance providers (Pischke, 1996; Armendáriz and Morduch, 2010). Proponents of the financial systems approach, in particular, subscribe to policies that entail the transformation of nongovernment and member-owned microfinance institutions into shareholder firms (Christen, 2001; Fernando, 2004; Rhyne and Otero, 2006; Frank, 2008). The rationale is that private ownership in microfinance can act as an external control mechanism or corporate governance system that can curb excess costs and attract commercial funds and deposits, which may improve efficiency and expand outreach to the poor (Christen, 2001).

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  • Gashaw Tadesse Abate & Carlo Borzaga & Kindie Getnet, 2014. "Financial Sustainability and Outreach of MFIs in Ethiopia: Does Ownership Form Matter?," Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance, in: Roy Mersland & R. Øystein Strøm (ed.), Microfinance Institutions, chapter 13, pages 244-270, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:psifcp:978-1-137-39966-3_13
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137399663_13
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