Behind the scenes of science in action: a 'replication in context' of a randomised control trial in Morocco.
This article is a 'replication in context' of a flagship randomised control trial (RCT) conducted in Morocco on microcredit. 'Replication in context' consists in combining the quantitative replication of an RCT with a contextualised analysis of its implementation and its political economy, in the se...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 42; no. 11; pp. 2669 - 2690 |
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