Microcredit and poverty. An overview of the principal statistical methods used to measure the program net impacts
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Microcredit; poverty; program impact; randomized approach; non-randomized approach.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C54 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Quantitative Policy Modeling
- C58 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Financial Econometrics
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MFD-2011-03-05 (Microfinance)
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