Title
Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Large-Scale Observational Study in Brazil
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Goldszmidt R.
Behr P.
Zucco C.
Lenz A.K.
Gonzalez L.
Publisher(s)
Palgrave Macmillan
Abstract
This paper studies the impact of microcredit in Brazil. We use a propensity score matching on original primary data on business and personal outcomes to compare veteran clients of BNDES—Brazil’s largest government-owned development bank—to a matched sample of more recent clients. Based on administrative data as well as data from a survey of 2107 clients from the South and Northeast regions of Brazil, the findings show no significant impacts on income, employment generation, access to credit, and business formalization, except for the poorest Municipalities of the Northeast, where microcredit presented positive effects.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Economía Negocios, Administración
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85113717859
Source
European Journal of Development Research
ISSN of the container
09578811
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