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Is Microfinance Actually Effective?

Is Microfinance Actually Effective?

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Mar 15, 2012
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The scope of microfinance to lift poor people out of poverty and provide mechanisms of empowerment is being challenged as questions are raised about the supporting evidence. In a discussion hosted by the UK's Overseas Development Institute, the academic evidence was concluded to be unclear, unreliable and inconclusive.

"[There is] no clear evidence that …

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