To access this article visit: The Second Story: Wholesale Microfinance in Latin America
Authors: Marguerite Berger, Alison Beck Yonas, Maria Lucia Lloreda
Published by: Inter-American Development Bank, March 2003
Quantitative Information: This article addresses the use of second-tier or wholesale channels within the microfinance sector to distribute additional resources/funding to financial institutions already providing loans to microenterprises. In
Qualitative Information: This article reviews the Inter-American Development Banks (IDB) Microfinance Global Credit Program as an example of a second-tier or wholesale initiative within Latin America to both expand microenterprises access to capital and support microfinance institutions programs while fostering regulatory reform. The authors attest that wholesale programs can effectively channel resources to MFIs, though they do cite
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