</titre> Drawing on data collected in South-India and using a socioeconomic and comprehensive approach, this paper explores the effects of microfinance on pre-existing indebtedness and over-indebtedness. The analysis demonstrates the complexity of causality chains and the diversity of microfinance...

<alinea/> How and under which conditions can microfinance promote solidarity, solidarity being defined in terms of capability to redistribute power and wealth and to reinvent new forms of democracy ? Based on Indian cases studies, the paper gives evidence to the numerous challenges faced by microfinance...

</titre> Drawing on a case study ? the randomized evaluation of the impact of Sky, a micro-insurance program in Cambodia ? this article examines the practical arrangements of collaboration and compromise between the constraints of academic ?rigor? and those of practitioners and between various forms...