Oh my. It gets a little heated here about research methodology.
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The savings group sector has the opportunity to avoid the growing pains of microcredit - the hype, the promulgation of unrepresentative and unattributable results, the focus on financial performance to the detriment of social performance, the upmarket drift. Will we seize that opportunity?
“Linking Poor Rural Households to Microfinance and Markets in Ethiopia,” (John Burns and Soloman Bogale). There may be some golden nuggets for those interested in livestock, savings groups, and crop value chains.