Microcredit finances small businesses and households excluded from conventional bank lending. Microfinance institutions, savings and credit cooperatives, specialised banks and mobile money operators share this market.
Each country guide presents the regulatory framework, the main players and the points to watch when borrowing small amounts.
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cameroon
- Comoros
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nigeria
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Tanzania
- The Gambia
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe