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Beef with Bateman, or, Why can’t the microfinance community handle criticism?
Prior to a seminar I hosted at the MPIfG in July with Milford Bateman, I published a review of his book Why Doesn’t Microfinance Work? (reproduced by several other sites). When the book was released...
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The Bateman controversy continues…
Milford Bateman’s book Why Doesn’t Microfinance Work? has generated heated discussion, with blows not always struck very far above the belt. Recently, I got involved by recapping and analysing several...
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Does the ‘Microfinance Community’ suffer from Groupthink?
I’ve recently been reading through the thought-provoking (albeit somewhat attention-grabbingly titled) book Participation: The New Tyranny?. The authors from a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds...
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The search for reasons & solutions: A compendium of voices on the AP...
As India celebrates Diwali this week, the debate about how to deal with microfinance has calmed a bit. But since I wrote up my analysis of the root causes Andhra Pradesh showdown (part 1, part 2), the...
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Save the Date: Bateman-Roodman Debate
Next week sees a high-profile head-to-head between two of the leading voices on microfinance. In a debate hosted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washinton D.C. on...
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The Art of Pointless and Misleading Microcredit Impact Evaluations
This guest post is provided by Milford Bateman who is a Visiting Professor of Economics at Juraj Dobrila University of Pula in Croatia and a development consultant. He recently accepted a two-month...
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