TY - BOOK AU - Bédécarrats,Florent TI - The Impact of Microfinance: a Political Challenge through the Prism of its Scientific Controversies PY - 2012///. N1 - 16 N2 - A widespread assumption states that rigorous impact evaluations are new and that it has recently been discovered that microfinance is not a miracle solution to poverty. However, the analysis of a corpus of 154 studies shows that this issue is not new and has long been controversial. Quantitative, academic and proof-oriented approaches are taking over, leaving little room for practitioner-oriented approaches UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-mondes-en-developpement-2012-2-page-127?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -