Abou-Ali, Hala; El-Azony, Hesham; El-Laithy, Heba; … - In: Journal of Development Effectiveness 2 (2010) 4, pp. 521-555
Since its inception in 1991, the Egyptian Social Fund for Development (SFD) has spent about US$600 million supporting microcredit, and financing community development and infrastructure. Applying propensity-score matching using household survey data for 2004/05, this paper finds that SFD...