Impacts of Foreign & Domestic Investments in MFIs

  • Date Posted: June 2, 2010
  • Authors: Marc de Sousa-Shields
  • Organizations/Projects: Chemonics International
  • Document Types: Primer or Brief
  • Donor Type: U.S. Agency for International Development

This microNOTE provides a summary and analysis of the May 2006 Speaker’s Corner event exploring the specific challenges facing the microfinance industry to mobilize commercial capital, including savings, debt and equity (both foreign and domestic), as well as the impact that continued donor subsidies have on microfinance commercialization.