El “double bottom line” de las microfinanzas ¿crisis epistémica?

In this paper we attempt to resolve some of the most relevant epistemological issues that affect the success of microfinance studies throughout the so-called “double bottom line”. From an analytical review it will be proved such microfinance´s shortcomings in order to gather simultaneously sustainability and poverty reduction. To that end this essay will be divided in two main sections: the first one related to this current contradiction and one other about the epistemological reductionism in which microfinance is involved. We conclude about the impossibility from an experimental approach to resolve the inherent contradiction of microfinance system constrained by an exceeded reality. In this paper we attempt to resolve some of the most relevant epistemologicalissues that affect the success of microfinance studies throughout the so-called“double bottom line”. From an analytical review it will be proved such microfinance´sshortcomings in order to gather simultaneously sustainability and poverty reduction.To that end this essay will be divided in two main sections: the first one related to thiscurrent contradiction and one other about the epistemological reductionism in whichmicrofinance is involved. We conclude about the impossibility from an experimentalapproach to resolve the inherent contradiction of microfinance system constrainedby an exceeded reality.