Sentence examples for evaluations of microcredit from inspiring English sources

But there are still no stringent evaluations of microcredit programs generally viewed as credible by experts.

When, recently, proper evaluations of microcredit came out, it became clear that while there was a clear positive impact the number of new businesses that got started went up from 5% to 7% in one instance, and people bought more durables for their businesses and homes it did not have quite the transformative impact that its most vocal supporters had claimed for it.

An interesting framework for the evaluation of microcredit was provided by Zeller and Meyer (2002) who argue that successful microfinance institutions have to balance the triangle of outreach, sustainability, and impact.

MFIs need to be more diligent in their lending and screen borrowers better — if too many borrowers can't repay their loans, the social obligation will start to fall apart.It's worth noting that Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, who have pioneered rigorous evaluations of the true impact of microcredit, are hardly cheerleaders for the industry, as the rest of the article makes clear.

Some 40% of microcredit borrowers also borrow informally, says Thomas Dichter, who has evaluated microcredit programs in 20 countries, including India.

In Bangladesh, for example, 40% of microcredit borrowers also borrow informally, says Thomas Dichter, who has evaluated microcredit programs in 20 countries, including India.

Surowiecki misses an important point of microcredit.

Borrowing, as the proponents of microcredit point out, is expensive.

Around the same time, the United Nations declared 2005 the International Year of Microcredit.

"The Omidyar fund represents a faith-based belief in the market," Jonathan Lewis, of MicroCredit Enterprises, said.

Bangladesh was also the home of microcredit, tiny loans for the poorest.