Measuring changes in client lives through microfinance : contributions of different approaches (English)

In the past two years, the publication of three impact evaluations of microcredit programs in India, the Philippines, and Morocco precipitated a spate of press reports questioning the value of microcredit and whether it had positive outcomes for poor people (Karlan and Zinman 2009 and Duflo and Banerjee 2009 and 2010). The impact evaluations used randomized controlled trials (RCTs), an evaluation methodology that randomly assigns an intervention to...

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El-Zoghbi, Mayada;

Martinez, Meritxell;
Document Date
2011/05/01
Document Type
Brief
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63331
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1
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2011/07/19
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Disclosed
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Measuring changes in client lives through microfinance : contributions of different approaches
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microfinance

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El-Zoghbi, Mayada; Martinez, Meritxell.

Measuring changes in client lives through microfinance : contributions of different approaches (English). CGAP brief Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/409361468336033988

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