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The Microfinance Collateralized Debt Obligation: A Modern Robin Hood?

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Summary, in English

The aim of this paper is to highlight a potentially very fruitful link between micro-entrepreneurs and international capital markets. It discusses the role structured finance and credit derivatives could play in extending finance to micro-entrepreneurs on a much larger scale than today's mainly non-commercial microfinance industry. The mechanisms of so-called collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) are described and extended to the microfinance world. Finally, it hypothetical, but realistic, example of such a microfinance CDO (MiCDO) is used to discuss the implications of securitization and tranching of microcredits. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Pages

2109-2126

Publication/Series

World Development

Volume

36

Issue

11

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • commercial microfinance
  • structured finance
  • collateralized debt
  • MiCDO
  • obligation
  • Asia
  • China

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1873-5991