Minimalism and microfinance: chronicle of an announced collapse [Minimalisme et microfinance: chronique d´un naufrage annoncé] [Minimalismo y microfinanzas: Crónica de un colapso anunciado]
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Castillo M.A.J.
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In the last decades microfinance has been accounted as a revolutionary financial instrument for development. Nevertheless, outcomes in terms of poverty reduction have not been as extraordinary as was expected. Despite a huge academic progress registered in a large set of publications, we meet with relevant limitation in order to foresee and identify its determinants. This matter could be closely related to uncritical assimila tion of a minimalist approach as the systemic structure where academic progress has been conceived. This reductionist and aprioristic approach, far from shedding light on the foundations of microfinance, confines it into a symptomatic analysis extremely descriptive and conceptually sterile. With a critical exercise of four underlying categories we pretend to assert the impossibility of a minimalist approach as knowledgeable and operative structure for development. © 2017, Universidad Simon Bolivar. All rights reserved.
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