Conferences

The CMF hosts a variety of conferences on an annual basis, some based on particular research projects and others on topical issues within the sector. These events aim to bring together key leaders from academia, the press, government, and the microfinance sector to discuss the most pressing issues in development and finance.

Recent conferences:

• CMF-CAB 2010 Microfinance: Translating Research into Practice 8/1/10

• CMF-CIRM National Conference on Microinsurance 11/12/09

• Risk Mitigation in Agriculture 11/08/09

• CMF-CAB 2009 Microfinance Conference 17/01/09

• Sustainability of SHGs: Scope, Issues and Challenges 1/11/08

• Financial Inclusion Conference hosted by the College of Agricultural Banking
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• 2007 summer policy conference

Seminars

The CMF’s seminar series provides researchers from the Centre as well as other institutions to share information and gather feedback on on-going or completed projects. All seminars are open to the general public. There is no need to register. If you are a researcher and are interested in presenting your work at the CMF’s seminar series please contact:amulyakrishna.champatiray@ifmr.ac.in.

Previous seminars:

• October 12, 2009: "Poverty, Livelihood and Microfinance: Preliminary Observations from a Field Study" presented by Prof. Tara Nair [Download Presentation]

• July 9, 2009: "The Impacts of Microfinance: A Randomised Evaluation of Spandana's program in Hyderbad" presented by Prof. Esther Duflo (MIT) [Download Presentation]

• June 18, 2009: "Social Security and Pensions in India" presented by Mr. A. Viswanathan, Senior Pension Consultant, IIMPS [Download Presentation]

• April 17, 2009: "Migrant Remittances: Size and Channels of Money Transfer among Oriya Workers in Surat City" presented by Dr. Gagan Sahu [book co-authored by Professor Biswaroop Das] [Download Presentation]

• January 27, 2009: "Targeting Public Goods to the Poor in a Segregated Economy: An Empirical Analysis of Central Mandates in Rural India," presented by Dr. Ajini Kochar, [Download Presentation]

• October 31, 2008: "SHG Federations in India: Present Statusand Future Prospects,"presented by CS Reddy, APMAS, [Download Presentation]

• September 18, 2008: "Index of Financial Inclusion", presented by Dr. Mandira Sarma, [Download Presentation]

• August 1, 2008: "Distributional Implications of SHG Lending in India", presented by Professor Rohini Somanathan, [Download Presentation]

• July 31, 2008: "Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India", presented by Professor Shawn Cole [Paper in draft form, will be available at a later date]

• July 17, 2008: "Legal Structures in Microfinance", presented by Mr. Deepak Alok, M2i Consulting [Download Presentation]

• June 12, 2008: W Aspects of the economic decision-making of the poor peasant household", presented by Mr.Ajay Tankha, Development Consultant [Download Presentation]

• May 16, 2008: "Does Meeting Repay? Early Repayment and Default in Microfinance: Evidence form India", presented by Anup Roy and Emmerich Davies [Download Presentation]

• May 6, 2008: "Support to Farmers - are Waivers Appropriate Instruments", presented by Mr. N. Srinivasan [Download Presentation]

• May 5, 2008 : "Targetting Efficiency-Bandhan's Ultra poor project ", presented by Jeremy Shapiro & Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay [Download Presentation]

• April 23, 2008: "Incentive Effects of Bank-Correspondent Models", presented by Prof. Adel Varghese [Download Presentation]

• April 14, 2008: "Ramanagaram Financial Diaries: Loan repayments and cash patterns of the urban slums", presented by Dr. Rajalaxmi Kamath [Download Presentation]

• March 3, 2008: "What we don't know about Microfinance-Religion, Outreach, Models and Marx", presented by Malcolm Harper [Download Presentation]


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