TY - BOOK ID - 134239919 TI - Impact Assessments in Finance and Private Sector Development : What Have We Learned and What Should We Learn? PY - 2009 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Access to credit KW - Access to Finance KW - Access to finance KW - Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial Distress KW - Banks KW - Banks and Banking Reform KW - Capital investment KW - Capital stock KW - Credit constraints KW - Credit market KW - Credit market failures KW - Debt Markets KW - Emerging Markets KW - Entrepreneurial ability KW - Finance and Financial Sector Development KW - Financial Literacy KW - Financial support KW - Greater access KW - Households KW - Interest rates KW - International bank KW - Key challenges KW - Lack of capital KW - Loan KW - Microfinance KW - Private Sector Development KW - Self-employment KW - Source of income UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134239919 AB - Until recently rigorous impact evaluations have been rare in the area of finance and private sector development. One reason for this is the perception that many policies and projects in this area lend themselves less to formal evaluations. However, a vanguard of new impact evaluations on areas as diverse as fostering microenterprise growth, microfinance, rainfall insurance, and regulatory reform demonstrates that in many circumstances serious evaluation is possible. The purpose of this paper is to synthesize and distil the policy and implementation lessons emerging from these studies, use them to demonstrate the feasibility of impact evaluations in a broader array of topics, and thereby help prompt new impact evaluations for projects going forward. ER -