Prospects, problems and potential of credit-granting NGOs

Reinhard Schmidt () and Claus-Peter Zeitinger
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Claus-Peter Zeitinger: Internationale Projekt Consult Frankfurt, Postal: Internationale Projekt Consult Frankfurt

Journal of International Development, 1996, vol. 8, issue 2, 241-258

Abstract: Recently NGOs have begun to be regarded as ideal providers of credit to small and micro businesses. The paper investigates whether this claim is justified and how the co-operation between donor institutions and NGOs should be structured. It reports the main results of an empirical investigation of the financial efficiency of credit-granting NGOs. These results cast serious doubts on the ability of NGOs to be viable institutions and lead the authors to suggest an institution-building approach of co-operating with NGOs as a promising alternative. Such an approach requires that donors assume a much more active role than they have played up to now.

Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1328(199603)8:2<241::AID-JID369>3.0.CO;2-R

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