The Microfinance Business Model: Enduring Subsidy and Modest Profit

Recent evidence suggests only modest social and economic impacts of microfinance. Favorable cost-benefit ratios then depend on low costs. This paper calculates the costs of microcredit and other elements of the microcredit business model using proprietary data on 1,335 microfinance institutions betw...

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Main Authors: Cull, Robert, Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli, Morduch, Jonathan
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32775