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Title:Systematic review methodology for development: an example from microfinance
Authors:Van Rooyen, CarinaISNI
Stewart, Ruth
De Wet, Thea
Year:2013
Periodical:Africanus (ISSN 0304-615X)
Volume:43
Issue:1
Pages:65-77
Language:English
Geographic term:Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:development research
research methods
microfinance
Abstract:Big international development donors such as the UK's Department for International Development and USAID have recently started using systematic review as a methodology to assess the effectiveness of various development interventions to help them decide what is the 'best' intervention to spend money on. Such an approach to evidence-based decision-making has long been practiced in the health sector in the US, UK, and elsewehere, but it is relatively new in the development field. In this article the authors use the case of a systematic review of the impact of microfinance on the poor in sub-Saharan African to indicate how systematic review as a methodology can be used to assess the impact of specific development interventions. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [Journal abstract]
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