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What is the government’s role in supporting microfinance? FAQ

What is the government’s role in supporting microfinance? FAQ

Governments have a complicated role when it comes to microfinance. Until recently, governments generally felt that it was their responsibility to generate development finance', including credit programs for the disadvantaged. Twenty years of insightful critique of rural credit programs revealed that governments do a very bad job of lending to the poor. Short term political gain is just too tempting for politically controlled lending organizations; they disburse too quickly (and thoughtlessly) and they collect too sporadically (unwillingness to be tough on defaulters). In urban areas, governments never really got into the act, and subsidized microenterprise credit is still relatively rare when compared to its rural counterpart.

Now that microfinance has become quite popular, governments are tempted to use savings banks, development banks, postal savings banks, and agricultural banks to move microcredit. This is not generally a good idea, unless the government has a clear acceptance of the need to avoid the pitfalls of the past and a clear means to do so. Many governments have set up apex facilities that channel funds from multilateral agencies to MFIs. Apex facilities can be quite complicated and there are few successful examples in microfinance. Successful apex organizations in microfinance tend to be built on the backs of successful MFIs, not the other way around. Finally, governments can also get involved in microfinance by concerning themselves with the regulatory framework that impinges on the ability of a wide range of financial actors to offer financial services to the very poor.





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