Microfinance Impact and Innovation Conference

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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, Innovations for Poverty Action, the Financial Access Initiative, 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 do interest rates affect the demand for microfinance products? * How to design appropriate consumer regulation? * Does business training help microenterprises? * How to increase savings behavior among the poor? * Microinsurance - impact and product design
											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!
This event is hosted by the Financial Access Initiative (FAI), Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Moody's Corporation, Deutsche Bank and the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP).

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