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Britta joined the research team at EDePo@IFS in 2008. Her research focuses on microfinance, household investments decisions, subjective expectation data and program evaluation. She has extensive experience in the management of research projects and corresponding data collection. She for example managed a three-wave household survey in Anantapur, India (n=1,000) and a three-state evaluation study of a sanitation intervention delivered through microfinance institutions (n=6,000). Britta holds a degree in Econometrics and PhD in Social Protection Policy from the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands. She is a research associate at the United Nations University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. 
All available publications
Britta Augsburg and Cyril Fouillet, July 2010,
Profit Empowerment: How Donors push Microfinance away from its primary objective,
Perspectives on Global Development and Technology,
Vol. 9, No. 3-4, pp. 327-355,
Brill,
Journal Articles
Britta Augsburg, Ralph de Haas, Heike Harmgart and Costas Meghir, February 2010,
Microfinance in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
IFS Reports
Britta Augsburg and Cyril Fouillet, February 2010,
La microfinance, un objet de pouvoir de plus? Conflits et enjeux d'un outil de 'developpement',
in L. Baixas, L. Dejouhanet and P.-Y. Trouillet (eds), Conflits et rapports sociaux en Asie du Sud AJEI,
Book Chapters
Britta Augsburg, April 2009,
The impact of a dairy intervention in rural India - Evidence from realized outcomes and expected returns to investment,
Journal of Development Effectiveness,
Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 147-170,
Routledge,
Journal Articles
Britta Augsburg, September 2008,
Measuring the impact of microfinance on poor rural women in Mongolia,
IFS Reports
Britta Augsburg, January 2006,
Econometric evaluation of the SEWA Bank in India: applying matching techniques based on the propensity score,
External publications
, Maastricht Graduate School
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