Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Credit received from microfinance, business inputs and fixed and variable costs, production, sales, profits, expenditures by category of expenditure (excluding health and ducation), including food, non-food, total, housing, durables, and assets.These are sometimes nominal or deflated, and sometimes in logs.8 These are mainly health and education expenditures and outcomes; indicators of subjective well-being.9 Indicators of empowerment (exclusively of women).29 At least not in a reviewable form; in addition to the report references, this study is reported in an unpublished Powerpoint presentation and a short www page presents some conclusions but without sufficient detail: www.philanthropyaction.com/nc/microfinance_impact_and_innovation_microfinance_impacts/ 30 See Song et al. (2010), 'Dissemination and publication of research findings: an updated review of related biases', available at: (www.hta.ac.uk/fullmono/mon1408.pdf) 31 See also Petryna (2009), for a critical discussion of RCTs which indicates clearly how far below a gold standard they can fall.It is also insightful to refer to the talk presented by Kremer on 'Conducting Field Research in Developing Countries', in which he responds to the rhetorical question as to why one should conduct RCTs in developing countries with the comment 'because one can': www.streamingmeeting.
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1788921904