Abstract
Small firms in developing countries continue to experience difficulties in accessing finance from formal financial institutions. This paper argues that regulating microfinance operations and activities is likely to strengthen microfinance institutions’ (MFIs) financial sustainability. This in turn could provide an important source of finance to small firms. Using the case of the microfinance industry in Tanzania, the paper aims at moving the microfinance regulation debate forward by generating a number of relevant inputs towards the formulation of a regulatory framework. This contribution probably comes at an opportune moment when the Tanzanian government is in the process of formulating a framework to regulate and supervise microfinance institutions.
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