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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2014/09/01
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS7029
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2014/09/01
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Benchmarking the financial performance, growth, and outreach of greenfield microfinance institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Finance & Private Sector Development