Microfinance Impact & Innovation Conference

10月21日〜23日にニューヨークで
Microfinance Impact & Innovation Conference
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  • Esther Duflo (MIT)
  • Dean Karlan (Yale)
  • Asad Mahmood (Deutsche Bank)
  • Jonathan Morduch (NYU)
  • Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard)
  • Jody Rasch (Moody's Investors Service)
  • Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth)

といった面々がそろうらしい。
しかも、3日目は、研究者と実務家の
"matchmaking symposium between researchers and practitioners to create and support the next generation of microfinance product innovation and rigorous research"

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Microfinance Impact & Innovation Conference

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October 21st-23rd 2010, New York City


Featuring Researchers, Microfinance Practitioners and Industry Leaders including:

Esther Duflo (MIT)

Dean Karlan (Yale)

Asad Mahmood (Deutsche Bank)

Jonathan Morduch (NYU)

Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard)

Jody Rasch (Moody's Investors Service)

Jonathan Zinman (Dartmouth)


Microfinance reaches over 200 million clients globally, many of them impoverished and financially excluded. While the breadth and depth of outreach is impressive, there is comparatively little knowledge of which products and services work best for the poor and why. For over five years, the Financial Access Initiative, Innovations for Poverty Action, and the Jameel Poverty Action Lab have conducted dozens of rigorous studies to fill the knowledge gaps. This event, the Microfinance Impact and Innovation Conference, was created as a unique forum for both communication of accumulated knowledge as well as the generation of innovations in both microfinance product design and research. Sessions will touch on topics including microcredit, interest rates, microsavings and business training, among others, framed by questions of product design, marketing, usage and impact. Questions and issues to be discussed include:

• What is the impact of microfinance on the poor?

• How to increase savings behavior among the poor?

• How do interest rates affect the demand for microfinance products?

• How to design appropriate consumer regulation?

• Does business training help microenterprises?

• Microinsurance - impact and product design

The conference will include sessions relevant for:
• Investors
• Microfinance Institutions
• Microfinance Network Organizations
• Regulators
• Policymakers
• Donors
•Researchers



Help Create the Next Generation of Microfinance Innovation and Research!

The third day of the conference will host a matchmaking symposium between researchers and practitioners to create and support the next generation of microfinance product innovation and rigorous research. We are soliciting ideas for this symposium. If you are a practitioner and are interested, please submit an idea by clicking here. If you are a researcher and would like to submit an idea, please click here. More information to follow!

Join us for an opportunity for microfinance researchers and practitioners to come together and create the next generation of microfinance innovation and research.