A study of group lending and incentives in Bolivia

Documents a case study of an urban group lending programme run by the bank BancoSol in La Paz, Bolivia. The lending programme has proved capable of sustaining a set of widely accessible lending relations with a large number of self-employed microentrepreneurs in Bolivia. In documenting this programm...

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Published in:International journal of social economics 2000-01, Vol.27 (7/8/9/10), p.927-943
Main Author: Van Tassel, Eric
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Banks
Bolivia
Borrowing
Collateral
Commercial banks
Contracts
Developing countries
Financial incentives
Group dynamics
Groups
Households
Incentives
LDCs
Loans
Low income groups
Microeconomics
Programmes
Self employment
Small business
Social economics
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Summary:Documents a case study of an urban group lending programme run by the bank BancoSol in La Paz, Bolivia. The lending programme has proved capable of sustaining a set of widely accessible lending relations with a large number of self-employed microentrepreneurs in Bolivia. In documenting this programme, our aim is to contrast several features of BancoSol's group lending policies against some of the theoretical results that have emerged from the microeconomic modelling research on group loan contracts. This exercise is based in part on a small survey that was conducted among BancoSol's client borrowers.
ISSN:0306-8293
1758-6712
DOI:10.1108/03068290010336865