L'impact de la microfinance: un enjeu politique au prisme de ses controverses scientifiques

Florent Bédécarrats

Mondes en développement, 2012, vol. n°158, issue 2, 127-142

Abstract: A widespread assumption states that rigorous impact evaluations are new and that it has recently been discovered that microfinance is not a panacea against poverty. However, analysing 154 impact, we show that this issue is far from being new and has long been controversial. Quantitative, academic and proof-oriented approaches are taking over, leaving little room for practitioner-oriented approaches.

Keywords: impact; evaluation; microfinance; randomization; controversies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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