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To evaluate the social and economic impact of microcredit on individual who previously did not have access to formal credits.
The household, firm, and financial institution surveys conducted in Menya were part of an impact evaluation of an intervention that never took place. The original intervention was an expansion of microcredit to rural villages in Upper Egypt where formal loans were virtually non-existent.
This survey investigates islamic finance, access to finance, access to finance, asset ownership, sales, profits, investment, consumption, and household characteristics.
Household surveys - Using a pair-wise randomization process, researchers assigned villages to treatment and control groups. First, these 25 villages were stratified into 10 sets of either two or three villages based on population size and region. Next, researchers assigned a random number to each village.