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Hustler Fund is Not Sustainable, Its a Political Tool

lozinews
lozinews January 3, 2023
Updated 2023/01/03 at 10:48 AM
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This week’s 10km Random Jogging Thought was on the Hustler Fund. It’s a political debt that had to be settled, but certainly unsustainable as an economic concept, costing 51% for an 8% return.

In trying to analyze whether the Hustler Fund is sustainable, as always I looked at the data. The most relevant metric here is the cost of the fund to the government versus the 8% its getting back.

1. Cost of bad loans: The biggest cost for the Hustler Fund is going to be default rates as a government sponsored special fund. The average default rate for government sponsored special funds is 40%. (Uwezo Fund’s default rate is about 64%, Women Enterprise Fund is 6.7%, and Youth Enterprise fund is 48%, a simple average is about 40%.) Put simply, for every 100 bob lent out, they will lose 40 bob, but you can put in your own assumption for the cost of bad loans.

2. Cost of operations: The cost of operating a retail fund is at best 2%. Put simply, for every 100 bob lent out, they will use 2 bob for administration.

3. Cost of the money: The cost of short-term borrowing for the government, the 91 day t-bill is about 9%. Put simply, for every 100 bob lent, they will use 9 bob to source the funds.

4. So if you add up the cost of credit of 40% (or whatever number you want to assume), plus the 2% administration cost and the 9% cost of money, you are getting to a total cost of 51%.

5. So the government is getting money at a total cost of 51% and lending it out at total interest of 8%, hence a net loss of 43% for every shilling lent? That means, for the 50 billion per year to the Hustler Fund, they will lose 22 billion every year.

6. That is not a sustainable model, hence my view is that its just a populist but unsustainable model. It seems like it was simply paying back the hustlers for their vote. It was settling a political debt.

7. And even if it was a sustainable idea, which it is not, the total loan market is about Kshs. 3.6 trillion. So even putting 50 billion into the economy is just 1.4% of the loan market, hardly any impact.

The Point IS, obviously the Hustler Fund is not sustainable, it will dissipate soon, like hot air. It was a political debt that had to be paid, and its important to settle political debts. But now that the political debt of the hustler vote has been settled, the government should turn to addressing the serious credit problem in Kenya – credit is hard to access and when accessed its very expensive, especially for hustlers.

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