What????S Wrong With Microfinance?

By T. Dichter, M. Harper. 2007

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High Noon for Microfinance Impact Evaluations: Re-investigating the Evidence from Bangladesh (2012, background): “However, Dichter and Harper (2007), Roy (2010), Bateman (2010), and Bateman and Chang (2009) argue that microfinance is neither always beneficial nor rigorously demonstrated.”
Women and Repayment in Microfinance: A Global Analysis (2011, methodology): “However, as argued by Harper (2007), group lending is all too often a ―second-hand‖ method, and a way to shift transaction costs onto female borrowers (Mayoux, 2001; Wright, 2006; Rao, 2008).”
Microfinance and the Illusion of Development: From Hubris to Nemesis in Thirty Years (2012, background): “Very soon the narrow criticism of the Compartamos IPO and commercialised microfinance was joined by a much wider critique of microfinance as a ‘bottom-up’ development model per se (see Dichter and Harper, 2007; Bateman and Chang, 2009; Bateman, 2010, 2011a).”