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The Microfinance Collateralized Debt Obligation: A Modern Robin Hood?

Byström, Hans LU (2008) In World Development 36(11). p.2109-2126
Abstract
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.
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commercial microfinance, structured finance, collateralized debt, MiCDO, obligation, Asia, China
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World Development
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36
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11
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2109 - 2126
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Elsevier
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  • wos:000261117100001
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1873-5991
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10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.11.012
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English
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  series       = {{World Development}},
  title        = {{The Microfinance Collateralized Debt Obligation: A Modern Robin Hood?}},
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  doi          = {{10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.11.012}},
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