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The Future of Microfinance

Posted by torchwolf on February 24, 2007

The conference described below is now over, but follow the links and you will find summaries of the discussion, which are a good picture of what the microfinance community is thinking about.

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You may be interested in this virtual conference on microfinance:

http://www.cgap.org/Vision2015/about.html

Sessions are from 2pm-5pm GMT every day this upcoming week.

There are background papers and other stuff on the site, which are interesting in themselves.

A video that introduces the conference themes can be found here.

Before clicking, be aware this is a 66Mb MPEG-4 movie, and runs about 20 minutes.

Closely related, with more video of presentations by major players in microfinance and relevant papers here:

http://www.cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/12276

This entry was posted on February 24, 2007 at 7:56 pm and is filed under international development, microfinance, poverty. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “The Future of Microfinance”

  1. Espen said

    January 30, 2009 at 1:05 pm

    Thanks for this! However, some of the links did not work.

    Reply

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