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Microfinance, endettement et surendettement. Une étude de cas en Inde du Sud

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  • Isabelle Guérin

    (IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement)

  • Marc Roesch
  • Ophélie Héliès
  • Govindan Venkatasubramanian

    (IFP - Institut Français de Pondichéry - MEAE - Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

Drawing on data collected in South-India and using a socioeconomic and comprehensive approach, this paper explores the effects of microfinance on pre-existing indebtedness and over-indebtedness. The analysis demonstrates the complexity of causality chains and the diversity of microfinance effects and households trajectories. In a context where households are already highly indebted (mainly to informal finance), substitution does occur, but only amongst a portion of clients and it rapidly reaches a threshold effect for "technical" reasons (high transaction costs, limited amounts available to borrow, rigidity of repayments) as well as social reasons. For other clients, microfinance has a leverage effect : it contributes through various channels to improve the creditworthiness of the borrower and increases the range of their financial opportunities to well beyond microcredit alone. This widening of choices probably allows for improved daily financial management, but there are also risks, in particular in terms of over-indebtedness.

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  • Isabelle Guérin & Marc Roesch & Ophélie Héliès & Govindan Venkatasubramanian, 2009. "Microfinance, endettement et surendettement. Une étude de cas en Inde du Sud," Post-Print hal-03238242, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03238242
    DOI: 10.3917/rtm.197.0131
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    1. Jessica Schicks, 2013. "From a Supply Gap to a Demand Gap? The Risk and Consequences of Over-indebting the Underbanked," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Jean-Pierre Gueyie & Ronny Manos & Jacob Yaron (ed.), Microfinance in Developing Countries, chapter 8, pages 152-177, Palgrave Macmillan.
    2. Marion Allet, 2014. "Why Do Microfinance Institutions Go Green? An Exploratory Study," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 122(3), pages 405-424, July.
    3. Jessica Schicks, 2013. "The Sacrifices of Micro-Borrowers in Ghana -- A Customer-Protection Perspective on Measuring Over-Indebtedness," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(9), pages 1238-1255, September.
    4. Jessica Schicks, 2010. "Microfinance Over-Indebtedness: Understanding its drivers and challenging the common myths," Working Papers CEB 10-048, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    5. Ahamadou MAICHANOU, 2016. "Determinants of Borrowing and Households’ Risk of Credit in Rural Area in Niger," Cahiers du GREThA (2007-2019) 2016-06, Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA).

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