Published this week: the latest VoxDevLit covers microfinance. After many decades,

microfinance is pervasive and popular in developing countries but is often

controversial. What have we learned about what works, how it works, and who it

helps – and what is there still to understand? Authors Simon Quinn, Muhammad

Meki, and Jing Cai talk to Tim Phillips about the problems of evaluation, the

surprising uses to which microfinance has been put, and the lessons that

policymakers can learn from the story of microfinance so far.

Read the full show notes here: https://voxdev.org/topic/finance/what-have-we-learned-about-microfinance

Read and download the VoxDevLit from our new look website here: https://voxdev.org/voxdevlit/microfinance