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| Microfinance: The Way Ahead, August 6, 2005 |
The Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF) at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India, hosted a conference on August 6, 2005, on the future directions of microfinance in India and in the rest of the world. The conference consisted of the following three sessions, each devoted to an important microfinance issue.
An important highlight of the conference was a special address in Session III by Dr. Y. V. Reddy, Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), on promotion and regulation of microfinance from the RBI's perspective.
We gratefully acknowledge the funding support from State Bank of India (SBI) for the conference.
Agenda
To download presentations/speeches by the following speakers, click on the following links:
Session I: How to estimate the effectiveness of microfinance programmes?
Abhijit Bannerjee (MIT)
Amit Bubna (ISB)
Esther Duflo (MIT)
Francis Sinha (EDA Rural Systems)
Session II: How to redesign microfinance contracts to expand the reach of microfinance?
Priya Basu (World Bank)
Bhagwan Chowdhry (ISB & UCLA)
Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University)
Vineet Rai (Aavishkaar)
Sanjeev Sanyal (Deutsche Bank)
Session III: How to regulate microfinance institutions?
Y V Reddy (Reserve Bank of India)
Mathew Titus (Sa-Dhan)
Ranjana Kumar (NABARD) |
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