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Evaluation and Microenterprise Programs

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Mark Schreiner (Washington University in St. Louis)

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Microenterprise programs attempt to help poor people start or strengthen small businesses. Funding and political support has grown rapidly. Is microenterprise a good use of scarce development funds? Unfortunately, most evaluations have been case studies in what not to do. Because benefits and costs cannot be measured completely nor with perfect certainty, rigorous evaluations should support their necessarily subjective judgements with logic and explicit assumptions. The usefulness of an evaluation lies not in its (apparent) incontrovertibility but rather in its clarity of assumptions and in its openness to meaningful review and critique.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Development and Comp Systems with number 0108002.

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Date of creation: 02 Sep 2001
Date of revision: 27 Dec 2001
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Keywords: Microenterprise; evaluation; welfare reform;

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O51 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - U.S.; Canada
J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
N3 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Income, and Wealth

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  1. Takis Venetoklis, 2002. "Public Policy Evaluation: Introduction to Quantitative Methodologies," Research Reports 90, Government Institute for Economic Research Finland (VATT). [Downloadable!]
  2. Rajdeep Sengupta & Craig P. Aubuchon, 2008. "The microfinance revolution: an overview," Review, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, issue Jan, pages 9-30. [Downloadable!]
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