This Focus Note looks at recent experience with guarantees of commercial loans to microfinance institutions (MFIs). Such loan guarantees are a form of insurance that covers a lender - typically a commercial bank - against default on its loan to an MFI. This Focus Note discusses the results of a study, jointly supported by CGAP and USAID. The study reviews the specific benefits loan guarantees are meant to produce; describes guarantor agencies, transaction...
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2007/01/01
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Guaranteed loans to microfinance institutions : how do they add value?
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loan guarantee
Citation
Flaming,Mark Wayne.
Guaranteed loans to microfinance institutions : how do they add value? (English). CGAP focus note ; no. 40 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/808931468142506783