Cross-post: What We Talk About When We Talk About Development

March 11, 2010

On CGD's main blog, I just wrote about one big idea that has come out of my work on microfinance, which is the value of systematically enunciating different conceptions of "development" and then measuring a given intervention against them. This device has been essential for in gaining a conceptual command of microfinance. I wonder about its broader applicability.

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Microfinance

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