In numbers we trust : measuring impact on institutional performance?
Elisabeth Vik
This paper discusses microfinance practice in relation to chosen indicators of “best practices” and institutional performance. The question is not whether microfinance succeeds, but how social practice sustains the discursive representations of policy and how the planned and desired scores on objectively verifiable indicators are produced, thus constructing the successful reputation of the microfinance institution in terms of institutional performance, even though impact on poverty reduction is unascertainable. Facilitated by ambiguous ideas that microfinance equals poverty alleviation and empowerment, policy constructs microfinance as a success, while practice sustains policy by producing “responsible” clients and the planned predefined quantitative goals for institutional performance. microfinance ; empowerment ; poverty alleviation ; development discourse ; Bolivia
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2013
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Authors: | Vik, Elisabeth |
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The credibility of microcredit : studies of impact and performance. - Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-23538-0. - 2013, p. 17-51
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Subject: | Mikrofinanzierung | Microfinance | Soziale Ungleichheit | Social inequality | Armutsbekämpfung | Poverty reduction | Bolivien | Bolivia |
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