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Costs and Benefits of Providing Health Savings and Savings Loans: RCPB's Experience from Burkina Faso

Focusing on the impact of health protection products on the Réseau des Caisses Populaires du Burkina (RCPB), this paper explores the hypothesis that microfinance institutions (MFIs) can feasibly offer health-related services that “pay for themselves” via a combination of financial revenues and nonfinancial benefits that indirectly improve the MFI’s financial position.