Why Doesn t Microfinance Work?: The Destructive Rise Of Local Neoliberalism

By M. Bateman. 2010

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Microfinance and the business of poverty reduction: Critical perspectives from rural Bangladesh (2017, background): “…disposable income and enabled poor families to move out of poverty (Khandker, 2005), other studies found no evidence of such a relationship (Kah et al., 2005; Morris and Barnes, 2005) and some even found a negative impact (Bateman, 2010; Dichter and Harper, 2007; Karim, 2011; Roodman, 2011).”
High Noon for Microfinance Impact Evaluations: Re-investigating the Evidence from Bangladesh (2012, background): “…convincing evidence that microfinance programmes have positive impacts (Armendáriz de Aghion and Morduch, 2005, 2010; Goldberg, 2005; Roy, 2010; Bateman, 2010; Stewart et al., 2010; Duvendack et al., 2011) in part because the PnK study came under intense scrutiny particularly from Morduch…”
Developing entrepreneurship in Africa: investigating critical resource challenges (2017, background): “Certain scholars have argued that, actually, while many MSMEs can access credit, most of this credit is allocated to non-business purposes such as consumption rather than enterprise creation (Bateman, 2010; Rodman, 2012).”
Microfinance and the Illusion of Development: From Hubris to Nemesis in Thirty Years (2012, background): “This successful LDS model is very far removed indeed from the microfinance model, even though it may have some superficial similarities to it (for examples, see Bateman, 2010, Chapter 7).”
Group lending or individual lending? Evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia (2011, background): “This heightened scepticism, perhaps most strongly voiced by Bateman (2010), also follows the publication of the (cid:28)ndings - summarized below - of a number of randomized (cid:28)eld experiments indicating that the impact of microcredit might be more modest than thought by its strongest…”
Is fin-tech the new panacea for poverty alleviation and local development? Contesting Suri and Jack’s M-Pesa findings published in Science (2019, background): “community and others (Bateman 2010; Guérin, Labie, and Servet 2015; Guérin, Morvant-Roux, and Villarreal 2013), and thus requires serious attention in any impact evaluation.”
Audit Quality and Corporate Governance: Evidence from the Microfinance Industry (2012, unknown): “With respect to the latter finding, the recent critical focus on microfinance (Bateman, 2010) has advanced the discussion about the need for the greater regulation of this industry.”
Financial Efficiency and Social Impact of Microfinance Institutions Using Self-Organizing Maps (2013, background): “He mentions that evidence that “mission drift” has become a serious problem is now quite overwhelming (Bateman, 2010, p.54).”
The Impact of Microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Evidence (2012, background): “, Adams & Von Pischke, 1992; Bateman & Chang, 2009; Copestake, 2002; Rogaly, 1996). Microfinance is increasingly questioned, not only for its lack of proven poverty reduction and development outcomes, but also on ideological terms — for example, see Bateman (2010, 2011), Dichter (2007), Fernando (20”