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From Revolution to Evolution: Charting the Main Features of Microfinance 2.0

Ronald U. Mendoza
UNICEF

Brandon C. Vick
Fordham University


February 2008

Fordham University, Department of Economics Discussion Paper No. 2008-03

Abstract:     
The past thirty years or so has seen microfinance take off from small group-based lending experiments to several thousand financial service providers (FSPs) serving a growing portion of the developing world today. Nevertheless, the challenge to improve broadbased access to financial services - going beyond credit and into other products such as savings, insurance and money transfer services - remains. Where is the microfinance industry headed? This essay reviews the available evidence, and argues that both the public and private spheres are crucial to the continued dynamism and expansion of the microfinance industry - the private sector as a continued source of product and process innovations; and the public sector taking on a strong market enabling and development role.

Keywords: microfinance, market failures, information, innovation

JEL Classifications: D52, O31, Q13

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Date posted: February 27, 2008 ; Last revised: March 08, 2008

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Mendoza, Ronald U. and Vick, Brandon C. , From Revolution to Evolution: Charting the Main Features of Microfinance 2.0 (February 2008). Fordham University, Department of Economics Discussion Paper No. 2008-03. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1098982


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Ronald U. Mendoza (Contact Author)
UNICEF ( email )
New York, NY 10017
United States
HOME PAGE: http://www.unicef.org
Brandon C. Vick
Fordham University ( email )
Bronx, NY 10458
United States
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