Beyond Group Lending
Beyond Group Lending
Introduction
The “discovery” of group lending opened up possibilities for microfinance. It is by far the most celebrated microfinance innovation, and with good reason. Group lending showed how unconventional contracts can work where tried-and-true banking practices failed again and again, and the shift in understandings led to other new ideas that borrowed as much from traditional moneylenders as from modern banking practices. Today, group lending is just one element that makes microfinance different from conventional banking.
Many of these other new ideas are also used by institutions practicing group lending. But the mechanisms are not intrinsically linked, and institutions are increasingly finding that they can pick and choose different elements. A case in point is “progressive lending,” which is a staple of the “classic” Grameen Bank model but which does not hinge on group lending per Se. Progressive lending refers to the practice of......
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