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!Government enables, not provide directly NO !Pay for itself (sustainable) NO !Build permanent local institutions NO !Integrated into the mainstream financial sector NO
Overview
!Vietnam: market-based reforms, 1980s !Poverty rate from 58.1% (1993) to19.5% (2004) !1980s: Microfinance introduced by NGOs !1990s: State banks
" Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (VBARD) " Vietnam Bank for the Poor (VBP)
MF environment
!2005: Decree 28 !International NGOs not allowed to set up financial institutions !Can only contribute capital jointly with legal domestic organizations !57 international NGOs !With socio-political organizations, Women Union (WU)
Market share
My paper
! 1) 2) 3) Economic problems Unhealthy competition Institutional Conflict No integrated network
! Role of NGOs
Unhealthy Competition
Microfinance: Government supported social welfare program Policy lending Bank: VBP # crowd out current NGOs
Economic Problem 1:
Evidence
Interest rate (as of December 2004)
" VBP: 0.5% " Oxfam: 1.5% " Save the Children: 1.5-1.7%
Role of NGOs:
Face competition
Improve schemes: best practices # serve no-collateral clients Grameen Bank Village Bank Solidarity Group Vietnam Plus, Action Aid SC/Japan, Plan International, WVI SC/US
Role of NGOs:
Face competition
Institutional conict
!Women Union (WU): oversees programs funded by international NGOs # headquarter-subsidiary conflict " HQ: financial sustainability " Subsidiary-Local: poverty reduction #Hard to go from infant to mature state #Mean technical EFFICIENCY: 69%-78%
Economic problem 2:
Evidence
WU staff: knew nothing about microfinance management Mission-Market tension " HQ: high IR " Subsidiary: follow state banks
Role of NGOs:
Resolve Conict
No Integrated sector
!Lack of networking " NGO: multi-purpose
Eg: global SC/UK strategy: microfinance is not top priority
Economic Problem 3:
Role of NGOs:
Improve Network
#Representative voice #Should turn into a formal association National Strategy: Integration into overall financial system
Conclusion
!Paradox of sustainability: rests more on social and political considerations than on economic ones (Devine, 2003) !Role of NGOs: crucial