The SME Program held its Seventh Working Group meeting at the Yale School of Management on October 21, 2016 in New Haven, Connecticut.The meeting convened SME Program affiliates to discuss innovative research in the SME space.  Presenters included: Opening Remarks Dean Karlan, Yale University Lucia Sánchez, Innovations for Poverty Action       Can Government Intervention Make Firms More Investment-Ready? A Randomized Experiment in the Western Balkans David McKenzie, World Bank The Effects of Business Accelerators on Venture Performance: Evidence from Start-Up Chile Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, London School of Economics     The drivers of post-entry growth: TFPQ vs.

On Friday, October 21st, the Financial Inclusion Program hosted a public webinar as part of Financial Inclusion 2020 Week.The webinar showcased the latest rigorous evidence on how digital products can help consumers overcome behavioral barriers and featured presentations by two of FIP's researchers, William Jack (Georgetown University) and Aaron Dibner-Dunlap (IPA).Their presentations are available below.

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) es una organización sin ánimo de lucro que se dedica a crear evidencia sobre el impacto de políticas públicas y programas sociales, y a motivar el uso de la evidencia en la toma de decisiones.