Failures in Microfinance Lessons Learned 2

• by Alex Silva
• Jun 20, 2011
• 1 min

“In this video series-2 Alex Silva, a microfinance pioneer, explain in detail the major reasons for the failure of microfinance institutions – an important topic that – so far- has not been talked about. Without doubt, practitioners from around the world stand to benefit from this seminal study of Latin American MFIs. Explaining these failings, […]

“In this video series-2 Alex Silva, a microfinance pioneer, explain in detail the major reasons for the failure of microfinance institutions – an important topic that – so far- has not been talked about. Without doubt, practitioners from around the world stand to benefit from this seminal study of Latin American MFIs. Explaining these failings, Alex talks about the methodological flaws in the credit technology. He says many times microfinance entrants particularly bank mistakenly assume microfinance market is similar to the other areas they are operating.

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