Microcredit? Spare Us the Praise for a Panacea By Susan Feiner & Drucilla Barker ● Commentary ● March 14, 2007 The White House, the Nobel Prize Committee and many development agencies celebrate microcredit as a boon to women struggling to survive. Economists Susan Feiner and Drucilla Barker dissent, saying it distracts from wage and work reforms.