Public-private Partnerships in Micro-finance: Should NGO Involvement be Restricted?

Prabal Roy Chowdhury () and Jaideep Roy

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper examines public-private partnerships in micro-finance, whereby NGOs can help in channelizing credit to the poor, both in borrower selection, as well as in project implementation. We argue that a distortion may arise out of the fact that the private partner, i.e. the NGO, is a motivated agent. We find that whenever the project is neither too productive, nor too unproductive, reducing such distortion requires unbundling borrower selection and project implementation, with the NGO being involved in borrower selection only.

Keywords: Public-private partnerships; micro-finance; motivated agent; NGO (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E62 G21 G28 H5 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-08-14
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Journal Article: Public-private partnerships in micro-finance: Should NGO involvement be restricted? (2009)
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