Microfinance Impact & Innovation Conference 2010

Microfinance reaches over 200 million clients globally, yet there is still 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 Abdul Latif 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.

Below are the links to a selection of some of the presentations from Day 1 (hosted by Moody's) and Day 2 (hosted by Deutsche Bank) of the Conference.

Day 1: Thursday, October 21, 2010

Introductory Remarks & Presentation of Moody’s Investors Service Research

Jonathan Morduch (NYU Wagner)

Linda Huber (Moody’s Investors Service)

Jody Rasch (Moody’s Investors Service) (Presentation)

What Are We Learning About Impacts?

Jonathan Morduch (NYU Wagner)

Abhijit Banerjee (MIT) (Presentation)

Esther Duflo (MIT)

Dean Karlan (Yale University) (Presentation)

Carlos Danel (Compartamos Banco)

Tanguy Bernard (Agence Française de Développement)

Insurance – Impact and Product Design

Mary Ellen Iskenderian (Women’s World Banking)

Christopher Udry (Yale University) (Presentation)

James Vickery (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) (Presentation) (Paper)

Michael McCord (MicroInsurance Centre)

Barbara Magnoni (EA Consultants) (Presentation)

Targeting the Ultra Poor

Susan Davis (BRAC USA)

Jeremy Shapiro (Yale University) (Presentation) (Paper)

Jonathan Bauchet (NYU Wagner) (Presentation) (Paper)

William M. Abrams (Trickle Up) 

Aude de Montesquiou (CGAP) (Presentation)

Microentrepreneurs and Their Capital: Micro Experiments to Get Inside the Box

Michael Ingram (IPA)

David McKenzie (World Bank) (Presentation) (Paper)

Jonathan Robinson (UCSC) (Presentation) (Paper)

Jake Kendall (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)

Measuring Social Performance

Asad Mahmood (Deutsche Bank)

Laura Foose (Alternative Credit Technologies) (Presentation)

Michael Cracknell (ENDA Inter-Arabe) (Presentation)

Nathanael Goldberg (IPA)

Kathryn Barrios (Developing World Markets)

Michael Rauenhorst (Microequity Investors, LLC)

Day 2: Friday, October 22, 2010

What Don't We Know That We Ought To?

David Roodman (Center for Global Development)

Richard Rosenberg (CGAP) (Presentation)

Christopher Dunford (Freedom from Hunger)

Abhijit Banerjee (MIT) (Presentation)

Credit Product Design

Bobbi Gray (Freedom From Hunger)

Erica Field (Harvard University) (Presentation) (Paper)

Greg Fischer (London School of Economics) (Presentation) (Paper)

Joanna Ledgerwood (Aga Khan Foundation)

Jolly Zachariah (Ujjivan)

Lunch Plenary

Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University)

Information and Credit Markets

Tony Sheldon (Yale Program on Social Enterprise)

Asim ljaz Khwaja (Harvard University)

Xavier Gine (World Bank) (Presentation) (Paper)

Raymond Anderson (Standard Bank Group, South Africa) (Presentation)

Hans Dellien (Women’s World Banking)

Psychology and Savings

Tania Alfonso (IPA)

Margaret McConnell (Harvard University)

Dean Yang (University of Michigan) (Paper)

Ross Nathan (Opportunity Tanzania Limited) (Presentation)

Beth Porter (UNCDF)

Consumer Protection

Bernd Balkenhol (International Labor Organization)

Adair Morse (University of Chicago) (Paper)

Santosh Anagol (Wharton School) (Presentation) (Paper)

Rachel Schneider (Center for Financial Services Innovation)

Kate McKee (CGAP)

Day 3: Saturday, October 23, 2010

Matchmaking Symposium: Booklet of Submissions