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Annie Duflo
Centre for Micro Finance at IFMR
February 14, 2007
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Appropriate products for rural markets…
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Outline
Provision of financial
Low level of Technology
services to the poor is
constrained by…
Regulatory Issues
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…Hence the need for local intermediaries
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Microfinance in India: apparition
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The microfinance promise
New
New contracts Management
structures
Innovations
New attitudes
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Microfinance: what is it?
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Outline
Branches assess
credibility of SHGs
and monitor 6 months savings
repayment process
Loan to group
Bank SHG
Repayment
commission
No liability NGO
Grants based
Group formation
and linkage
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Recently emerging model: financial
Intermediation by MFIs
Efficient use of capital N
Incentive alignment Y
MFI on lends
Loan Loan
SHG, JLG
Bank MFI
or ind.
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These models could not resolve the
paradox of limited supply
• A burgeoning segment with very large demand for
finance
• Grass-root agencies capable of providing origination
and supervision support in a cost-effective manner
• Banking system capable of providing large quantum
of wholesale finance (owing to priority sector
targets)
• However, there are no ‘natural providers’ of risk
capital for microfinance and this has constrained the
growth of several MFIs
• As a result, supply is still a small fraction of the
demand for finance
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Needed a model which:
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The Partnership Model
Efficient use of capital Y
Incentive alignment Y
Repayment collection
Service fee
MFI Service fee SHG, JLG or
Bank (servicer) Ind.
Risk Sharing FLDG Origination,
monitoring, collection
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The Partnership Model structure
combines debt and mezzanine equity
• MFI estimates individual and overall loan requirement
• Objective
– Keep the pricing on the loan portfolio close to AAA rates
– Reflect riskiness in the quantum of the FLDG, assuming the
character of mezzanine equity
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Comparison between SHG-Bank Linkage &
MFI model
50 90%
billion $
Rs billion
30 50%
0.6
25 40%
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0.4 30%
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20% MFIs
10 0.2
10% SHG
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0%
0 0
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
1996 1999 2002 2005
Year Year
Sources : Rough estimate derived from a presentation at a Microfinance Stakeholder Consultation Meeting in Delhi in January organized by
the World Bank. Major sources are NABARD Annual Report & Data collected by ICICI Bank.
Assumption : MFI disburse 1.5 time of Yr-end O/s loans – Ratio from M-CRIL data 22
Outline
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Repayment schedules: allow flexibility
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Loan size: often seems too small
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Therefore.. need for individual lending
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Group Lending vs. Individual
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Example of individual lending: SKS
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Individual lending: WWB Methodology
• Analysis of
1. Balance Sheet of the business
2. Income Statement of the business
3. Family cash flow
4. Investment Plan
5. Character Assessment
• Operating Model
1. Staff profile & training
2. Branch location & infrastructure
3. Efficient information system
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Outline
Protection
Lifecycle needs against Health
shocks
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MFIs Models and products (non credit)
• Most often as agent of insurance company
• Most common product is life insurance
Insurance
• Bundled with credit
• Health insurance emerging
• Rare product
Remittances • One MFI in Orissa: Adhikar
• One MFI in Udaipur: Ajewika Bureau
• Rare product
Housing loans • Focus on individual loans
• A few MFIs provide housing loans: IASC,
ESAF
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Insurance products
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Remittances
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Housing Finance
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Product development: what about the
poorest of the poor?
• So far, MFIs and SHGs do not reach the poorest
– In AP, the 2 income quintiles above the poorest HH are more
likely to receive microfinance through SHG-Bank model,
while the poorest and those in the top 2 quintiles are less
likely to be in SHGs (Priya Basu, WB)
• Poorest are not micro entrepreneurs yet – could they
become one?
• Poorest have no ability to repay – at least not with
standard product
• May need more flexible products
• Or need to be pushed up to a level where they can
repay
• BRAC Target the Ultra Poor (TUP) programme: asset
transfer, skill training, handholding, health grant
• Bandhan in India
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Outline
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Non financial constraints: Skills and
Innovation
• Why is this happening and what should be the role
of MFIs in this?
• Might be dangerous to advise people on what to
do
– but can create information sharing
• Some businesses fail due to poor management
skills Need for financial training and basic
business skills
– Sewa Bank business and financial literacy training
– Can partner with other agencies to provide business
development training or mentoring services (BYST)
• Credit is only one side of the story: need to link to
a higher value chain, create links between the
borrowers and potential buyers
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Outline
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How to calculate a sustainable interest
rate?
The annualized effective interest rate (R) charged on loans will be a
function of five elements, each expressed as a percentage of average
outstanding loan Portfolio
• Administrative expenses (AE)
– Administrative expenses of efficient, mature institutions tend to range
between 10%–25% of average loan portfolio (in india can be lower).
• Loan losses (LL)
– Many good institutions run at about 1–2%.
• The cost of funds (CF), India 10%
• The desired capitalization rate (K)
• Investment income (II) income expected from the MFI’s financial
assets other than the loan portfolio (e.g., cash, checking deposits,
legal reserves)
• Example (India context): 10+2+10+2+2-2=24%
Source: CGAP
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MFIs’ interest rates in the world
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Why are transaction costs of MFIs high?
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What are the drivers of costs?
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Possible strategies to reduce MFI
transaction costs
• Increase field worker productivity
– saturate a place before entering another place
– Sell more products
• Experiment with staff Incentives Schemes
– Focus not only on volume but also on retention as costs higher for
first time members
• Simplify Systems and operations as much as possible
Staff costs – ASA, Bangladesh: simplified operations so that they could be
performed by less-educated staff
• Can supervision levels be relaxed/modified for mature
customer groups?
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Possible strategies to reduce MFI
transaction costs
• Repayment schedules: experiment with less
frequent schedules! If no more defaults, could
lead in less transaction costs
Products and
pricing • Take into account the lifecycle cost also when
pricing the loans. Merely looking at first year
costs may result in overpricing of loans
– may drive away some good borrowers
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Outline
• CMF’s objectives
– To address knowledge and practice gaps in micro finance sector
– Experiment on ground solutions
Impact of microfinance
• Impact Evaluation Studies
• Economics of micro enterprise
• Insights on HH "financial behavior"
• Constraints on HH productivity Research (RU)
• Experimentation on product design
• Micro finance transaction costs
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4 Research areas to maximize micro
finance impact
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Maximize impact
4 On client 3
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The role of research
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The role of research
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The role of MFI Strategy Unit
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The role of MSU: encourage vertical growth
=> deepen share of wallet of existing customers
=> capture new customer segments
s profiles
Customer
Channel Product
segment
Capability Technology
Geography
adjacencies adjacencies
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IFMR Trust
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Thank you
• For any question: annie@ifmr.ac.in
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