Microfinance conference to discuss ways to enhance research usefulness

Microfinance Focus, Dec. 22, 2009: The Centre for Micro Finance (CMF) in partnership with the College of Agricultural Banking – Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Pune, India will be organizing a conference on microfinance on January 8 and 9th , 2010 in Pune. The conference aims to identify areas for further research and experimentation of relevance to both practitioners and policy makers in microfinance.

Prof Abhijit Banerjee (MIT), Prof Rohini Pande (Harvard) and Professor Jonathan Morduch (NYU) among the key speakers. Other confirmed speakers include Mr. N Srinivasan, consultant and author of the State of the Sector Report, Dr. Nachiket Mor., President of ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth, and Ms. Bindu Ananth, President of IFMR Trust.

Tentative session plans for this year’s conference include, “Tailoring Financial Services to the Needs of the Poor,” which will feature key findings from the recently released book, “Portfolios of the Poor,” presented by co-author Professor Jonathan Morduch; “Impact of Microfinance,” this session will address in detail the Centre for Micro Finance’s impact evaluation of Spandana’s expansion into the slums of Hyderabad.

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