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Prospects for Investment in South Asian Microfinance
Paper presented at Second Annual Convergences 2015 Forum on microfinance, April 30, 2009, Paris, France.
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This report provides an overview of investment conditions, regulations and procedures in South Asian countries to potential investors in microfinance.The report discusses the microfinance investment landscape of four countries, namely Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Findings include:
- Huge unmet demand, institutional development of MFIs, support from Microfinance Investment Support Facility for Afghanistan provide sound base for growth of microfinance sector in Afghanistan;
- Pace of the sector is set by innovations in products, processes, funding structure and linkages with financial institutions in India;
- Pakistans microfinance sector has seen impressive growth and there is huge scope for expanding outreach and growth of MFIs;
- Sri Lanka has a large and diverse microfinance sector in terms of outreach and institutional types.
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