impact of microfinance on education in sub-saharan africa
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Presentation to the IOE symposium on 14 December 2011TRANSCRIPT
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Carina van Rooyen, Ruth Stewart and Thea de Wet
The impact of microfinance on education in sub-Saharan
Africa: A partnership project with the Institute of Education
INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION SYMPOSIUM ON EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT, 14 December 2011 Source: Per H
erbertsson
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From
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Access to microfinance
Invest in the future
Increase income
Increase education,
health, etc.
Lift out of poverty
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Invest in the future
Improvement in education
Especially if available to women
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Paper or plastic?
Review question given
DFID-funded systematic review
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Peer-reviewed published protocol
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Extensive searching & 2-staged screening
Microfinance
Sub-Saharan Africa
Comparative evaluations of the impact on the poor
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Coding
EPPI-Reviewer4
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Quality appraisalFrom
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Data extraction
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Synthesis
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Causal chain development
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Peer-reviewed published
report
Available at http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/PDF/Outputs/SystematicReviews/MicroFinance_FOR+WEB%5B1%5D.pdf
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Details of our 15 included studies
• 4 RCTs 2 quasi-experimental studies 9 with/without studies• 11 = microcredit, 2 = savings, 2
= combined credit & savings• Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi,
Madagascar, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania (Zanzibar), Uganda & Zimbabwe
• Rural & urban initiatives
Source
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RCTs
Micro-savings 2
Micro-credit 2
Micro-credit &savings
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Scope of the evidence-base
RCTs Quasi-exp With/without
Micro-savings 2 - -
Micro-credit 2 1 8
Micro-credit &savings
- 1 1
RCTs Quasi-exp
Micro-savings 2 -
Micro-credit 2 1
Micro-credit &savings
- 1
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Hierarchy of evidence?
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Findings – how does microfinance impact on education?
Credit Combinedcredit and savings
Savings
MAYBEgender difference
positive (2)mixed (2)
negative (1) no effect (1)
NOnegative (1) no effect (1)
YESpositive (1)
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Specific paper
findings
* High quality studies
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There is some evidence for positive impacts but worryingly there is also evidence that microfinance
does harm by negatively impacting on the education of clients’ children, especially girls
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Savings provision to AIDS-orphaned young people in Uganda has been shown to increase their intention to attend secondary schooling, & their certainty that these plans will come to fruition. These young people also did significantly better in Uganda’s Primary Leaving Examinations than control group (Ssewamala et al 2010)
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Evidence for micro-credit’s impact on household’s expenditure on education is
contradictory: (1) two studies show increased household’s
expenditure on children’s education; (2) two studies find no such effect;
(3) one study finds mixed results with varied positive & negative impacts on
expenditure on education depending on the region
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On school attendance two studies found reduced attendance amongst micro-credit
clients Data from Malawi shows that micro-credit significantly decreases primary school attendance amongst borrowers’ children
Noteworthy gendered impact: repetition of primary grades in young boys & delayed or lack of enrolment for young girls
In Uganda (high quality study) client households were significantly more likely to have been unable to pay school charges for one or more household members for at least one term during previous two years, hence children had to drop out of school
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But micro-credit does not appear to increase child labour, so we presume children are not being taken out of school to work, but because clients have difficulties paying school expenses
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Length of time within micro-credit programme decreases children’s enrolment • Gendered impact: in
Zimbabwe on-going borrowing reduced children’s enrolment in school; proportion of household’s girls aged 6 to 16 in school decreasing more for continuing clients than for departing clients & non-clients
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“Credit is like a fire: it is useful to cook your sadza but if you are careless, it will burn your hut.”
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Causal pathway analysis
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Source
: Per H
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What we now think is happening
1. Invest in
immediate future:
a. Businessb. Productive
assetsc. Adult
educationd. Workers’
health & nutrition
Micro-credit
Given to individuals or groups
Scope for increased income via business
or employment
Able to repay loan and avoid increase
in debt
Able to save
Spend money differently
Social cohesion
Women’s empowerment
Long-term benefits
Micro-savings
2. Consumptive spending with
scope for productivity:
a. Add on housing
b. Assets which retain value
Improved capabilities
Better able to deal with shocks
3. Invest in long- term future:
a. Children’s education
b. Children’s health and nutrition
4. Consumptive spending (non-
productive):
Assets which do not retain value
Actual increased income
Actual decreased income
Default on loan, lose collateral
and/or forced to borrow more
Use other MFI
FOR CREDIT CLIENTS ONLYInability to repay loan
Determined by external factors:
Entrepreneurial ability
Appropriateness of business in context
Competition from other MFI clients
Gender and power relations
Use same MFI
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What we now think is happening
1. Invest in
immediate future:
a. Businessb. Productive
assetsc. Adult
educationd. Workers’
health & nutrition
Micro-credit
Given to individuals or groups
Scope for increased income via business
or employment
Able to repay loan and avoid increase
in debt
Able to save
Spend money differently
Social cohesion
Women’s empowerment
Long-term benefits
Micro-savings
2. Consumptive spending with
scope for productivity:
a. Add on housing
b. Assets which retain value
Improved capabilities
Better able to deal with shocks
3. Invest in long- term future:
a. Children’s education
b. Children’s health and nutrition
4. Consumptive spending (non-
productive):
Assets which do not retain value
Actual increased income
Actual decreased income
Default on loan, lose collateral
and/or forced to borrow more
Use other MFI
FOR CREDIT CLIENTS ONLYInability to repay loan
Determined by external factors:
Entrepreneurial ability
Appropriateness of business in context
Competition from other MFI clients
Gender and power relations
Use same MFI
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What we now think is happening
1. Invest in
immediate future:
a. Businessb. Productive
assetsc. Adult
educationd. Workers’
health & nutrition
Micro-credit
Given to individuals or groups
Spend money differently
Social cohesion
Women’s empowerment
Micro-savings
2. Consumptive spending with
scope for productivity:
a. Add on housing
b. Assets which retain value
3. Invest in long- term future: a. Children’s education
b. Children’s health and nutrition
4. Consumptive spending (non-
productive): Assets which do not retain value
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What we now think is happening
1. Invest in
immediate future:
a. Businessb. Productive
assetsc. Adult
educationd. Workers’
health & nutrition
Micro-credit
Given to individuals or groups
Scope for increased income via business
or employment
Able to repay loan and avoid increase
in debt
Able to save
Spend money differently
Social cohesion
Women’s empowerment
Long-term benefits
Micro-savings
2. Consumptive spending with
scope for productivity:
a. Add on housing
b. Assets which retain value
Improved capabilities
Better able to deal with shocks
3. Invest in long- term future:
a. Children’s education
b. Children’s health and nutrition
4. Consumptive spending (non-
productive):
Assets which do not retain value
Actual increased income
Actual decreased income
Default on loan, lose collateral
and/or forced to borrow more
Use other MFI
FOR CREDIT CLIENTS ONLYInability to repay loan
Determined by external factors:
Entrepreneurial ability
Appropriateness of business in context
Competition from other MFI clients
Gender and power relations
Use same MFI
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1. Invest in
immediate future:
a. Businessb. Productive
assetsc. Adult
educationd. Workers’
health & nutrition
Given to individuals or groups
Scope for increased income via business
or employment
Able to save
Spend money differently
Women’s empowerment
Long-term benefits
2. Consumptive spending with
scope for productivity:
a. Add on housing
b. Assets which retain value
Improved capabilities
Better able to deal with shocks
3. Invest in long- term future:
a. Children’s education
b. Children’s health and nutrition
4. Consumptive spending (non-
productive):
Assets which do not retain value
Actual increased income
FOR CREDIT CLIENTS ONLYInability to repay loan
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What we now think is happening
1. Invest in
immediate future:
a. Businessb. Productive
assetsc. Adult
educationd. Workers’
health & nutrition
Micro-credit
Given to individuals or groups
Scope for increased income via business
or employment
Able to repay loan and avoid increase
in debt
Able to save
Spend money differently
Social cohesion
Women’s empowerment
Long-term benefits
Micro-savings
2. Consumptive spending with
scope for productivity:
a. Add on housing
b. Assets which retain value
Improved capabilities
Better able to deal with shocks
3. Invest in long- term future:
a. Children’s education
b. Children’s health and nutrition
4. Consumptive spending (non-
productive):
Assets which do not retain value
Actual increased income
Actual decreased income
Default on loan, lose collateral
and/or forced to borrow more
Use other MFI
FOR CREDIT CLIENTS ONLYInability to repay loan
Determined by external factors:
Entrepreneurial ability
Appropriateness of business in context
Competition from other MFI clients
Gender and power relations
Use same MFI
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1. Invest in
immediate future:
a. Businessb. Productive
assetsc. Adult
educationd. Workers’
health & nutrition
Given to individuals or groups
Scope for increased income
via business or employment
Able to repay loan and avoid
increase in debt
Able to save
Spend money differently
2. Consumptive
spending with scope
for productivity:
a. Add on housing
b. Assets which retain
value
Improved capabilities
Better able to deal with shocks
Actual increased income
Actual decreased income
Default on loan, lose collateral
and/or forced to borrow more
Determined by external factors:
Entrepreneurial abilityAppropriateness of business in context
Competition from other MFI clients
Gender and power relations
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1. Invest in
immediate future:
a. Businessb. Productive
assetsc. Adult
educationd. Workers’
health & nutrition
Micro-credit
Given to individuals or groups
Able to repay loan and avoid
increase in debt
Able to save
Spend money differently
Micro-savings
2. Consumptive spending with scope
for productivity:
a. Add on housing
b. Assets which retain
value
3. Invest in
long- term future:
a. Children’s education
b. Children’s health and nutrition
Actual increased income
Actual decreased
income
Default on loan, lose collateral
and/or forced to borrow
more
Use other MFI
Use same MFI
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What we now think is happening
1. Invest in
immediate future:
a. Businessb. Productive
assetsc. Adult
educationd. Workers’
health & nutrition
Micro-credit
Given to individuals or groups
Scope for increased income via business
or employment
Able to repay loan and avoid increase
in debt
Able to save
Spend money differently
Social cohesion
Women’s empowerment
Long-term benefits
Micro-savings
2. Consumptive spending with
scope for productivity:
a. Add on housing
b. Assets which retain value
Improved capabilities
Better able to deal with shocks
3. Invest in long- term future:
a. Children’s education
b. Children’s health and nutrition
4. Consumptive spending (non-
productive):
Assets which do not retain value
Actual increased income
Actual decreased income
Default on loan, lose collateral
and/or forced to borrow more
Use other MFI
FOR CREDIT CLIENTS ONLYInability to repay loan
Determined by external factors:
Entrepreneurial ability
Appropriateness of business in context
Competition from other MFI clients
Gender and power relations
Use same MFI
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Some of our recommendations
Microcredit rolled out with caution & focussed carefully
on those most likely to benefit
The rhetoric to be scaled back & wild claims
challenged
Microfinance not to be promoted as means of
improving education in SSA
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More (especially on micro-savings) and better impact evaluations of microfinance
Ongoing discussion of how to deliver pragmatic systematic reviews for
international development
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Your thoughts?
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Contact us:
Presentation online at
http://www.slideshare.net/carinavr
Source: Per Herbertsson
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Acknowledgements
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