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Raising MFI Equity Through Microfinance Investment Funds

In: New Partnerships for Innovation in Microfinance

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  • Patrick Goodman

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Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are increasingly addressing the traditional financial market to fund their continued growth and to better serve their clients. In its early days, the microfinance sector was essentially driven by non-profit organisations and official development agencies. Over the last few years, these institutions, together with a few new entrants in the sector, have set up an increasing number of investment structures to fund MFIs. Common usage in the microfinance industry is “microfinance investment fund” as the generic term to identify all corporate investment structures (such as holding companies for example) which have been set up to provide equity and/or debt financing to MFIs, with investors acting as shareholders or as lenders. This paper builds upon a study prepared by the author on microfinance investment funds (MFIFs) for the 2004 KfW Financial Sector Development Symposium held in Berlin in November 2004. This initial study presented an overview of microfinance investment funds with their main features and characteristics. This paper focuses on those investment funds which invest all or a part of their assets in the equity capital of MFIs

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  • Patrick Goodman, 2009. "Raising MFI Equity Through Microfinance Investment Funds," Springer Books, in: J. D. Pischke & Ingrid Matthäus-Maier (ed.), New Partnerships for Innovation in Microfinance, pages 17-45, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-76641-4_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76641-4_2
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    1. Patrick Reichert & Marek Hudon & Ariane Szafarz & Robert K. Christensen, 2021. "Crowding-In or Crowding-Out? How Subsidies Signal the Path to Financial Independence of Social Enterprises," Working Papers CEB 21-014, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

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