Careful New Review of Randomized Trials of Microfinance
12/12/11
CGAP has published a nice summary of what we can learn from the growing collection of randomized studies of microfinance.
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I Failed to Seriously Consider the Limitations of Microfinance as a Poverty Reduction Approach
8/17/11
...that according to the newest review of the evidence on the impact of microcredit (p. 73). The review was commissioned by the British aid agency DFID and carried out by British academics, all but one of whom (James Copestake) were based at the University of East Anglia.
Literature Review on Microfinance Impacts in Africa
2/9/11
An institution with a very long name (Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre) at the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London) just published a review of the academic literature on the impacts of microfinance in Africa. The study was funded by the U.K. aid agency, the Department for International Development (DFID).
Great Grameen Foundation Report on Microfinance Impacts
6/11/10
Back in 2005, the Washington, DC--based Grameen Foundation commissioned Nathanael Goldberg to review the research on the impacts of microfinance. A lot has happened in the field since then, especially last year.