Impact Assessments in Finance and Private Sector Development : What Have We Learned and What Should We Learn?

Until recently rigorous impact evaluations have been rare in the area of finance and private sector development. One reason for this is the perception that many policies and projects in this area lend themselves less to formal evaluations. However, a vanguard of new impact evaluations on areas as di...

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Main Author:	McKenzie, David
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	World Bank 2012
Subjects:	access to credit bank accounts banks capital investment capital stock credit constraints credit market credit market failures entrepreneurial ability financial support greater access households interest rates international bank key challenges lack of capital loan microfinance self-employment source of income
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4439

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spelling	okr-10986-44392017-12-14T05:15:59Z Impact Assessments in Finance and Private Sector Development : What Have We Learned and What Should We Learn? McKenzie, David access to credit bank accounts banks capital investment capital stock credit constraints credit market credit market failures entrepreneurial ability financial support greater access households interest rates international bank key challenges lack of capital loan microfinance self-employment source of income Until recently rigorous impact evaluations have been rare in the area of finance and private sector development. One reason for this is the perception that many policies and projects in this area lend themselves less to formal evaluations. However, a vanguard of new impact evaluations on areas as diverse as fostering microenterprise growth, microfinance, rainfall insurance, and regulatory reform demonstrates that in many circumstances serious evaluation is possible. The purpose of this paper is to synthesize and distill the policy and implementation lessons emerging from these studies, use them to demonstrate the feasibility of impact evaluations in a broader array of topics, and thereby help prompt new impact evaluations for projects going forward. 2012-03-30T07:12:35Z 2012-03-30T07:12:35Z 2010-08-02 Journal Article World Bank Research Observer 1564-6971 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4439 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank Journal Article Sri Lanka Argentina Brazil
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description	Until recently rigorous impact evaluations have been rare in the area of finance and private sector development. One reason for this is the perception that many policies and projects in this area lend themselves less to formal evaluations. However, a vanguard of new impact evaluations on areas as diverse as fostering microenterprise growth, microfinance, rainfall insurance, and regulatory reform demonstrates that in many circumstances serious evaluation is possible. The purpose of this paper is to synthesize and distill the policy and implementation lessons emerging from these studies, use them to demonstrate the feasibility of impact evaluations in a broader array of topics, and thereby help prompt new impact evaluations for projects going forward.
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author	McKenzie, David
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title	Impact Assessments in Finance and Private Sector Development : What Have We Learned and What Should We Learn?
title_short	Impact Assessments in Finance and Private Sector Development : What Have We Learned and What Should We Learn?
title_full	Impact Assessments in Finance and Private Sector Development : What Have We Learned and What Should We Learn?
title_fullStr	Impact Assessments in Finance and Private Sector Development : What Have We Learned and What Should We Learn?
title_full_unstemmed	Impact Assessments in Finance and Private Sector Development : What Have We Learned and What Should We Learn?
title_sort	impact assessments in finance and private sector development : what have we learned and what should we learn?
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Impact Assessments in Finance and Private Sector Development : What Have We Learned and What Should We Learn?

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