USAID After Hours Seminar Series
Microfinance Learning and Innovations
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This seminar series, sponsored by USAID’s Microenterprise Development office, is a platform to disseminate knowledge and best practice in microfinance, as well as research conducted by USAID’s partners.

Note: Transcripts of all our screencasts () can be made available upon request. Please e-mail microlinks@microlinks.org to request a copy.

Upcoming Seminar: September 21, 2010   "What's All the Fuss? Savings Groups, Financial Institutions and the Role of Aid"     Kim Wilson and Malcolm Harper   Learn more and RSVP!

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Recent Seminar: August 30, 2010     View the Screencast!     Timothy Nourse, Chief of Party of the Expanded and Sustained Access to Financial Services (ESAF) Program,  presented "Commercialization Amid Conflict: Microfinance Sector Development in the West Bank Gaza" at the 44rd Microfinance Innovations After Hours Seminar held by USAID's Microenterprise Development office. The event was moderated by Paul Bundick of AED.   Read more about Seminar #44 (text-only).

Past Seminars

July 2010. Rebuilding Hait: The Critical Role of MFIs and Credit Unions. Greta Greathouse, WOCCU HIFIVE Program; moderated by Jessica DeVreeze.
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June 2010. What Control Groups Can't Tell You: Mocrofinance and Women's Empowerment. Mary Ellen Iskenderian, Women's World Banking; moderated by Carissa Page.
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 May 2010. Tea and Money: A Study of Customary Finance in Afghanistan. Qiamuddin Amiry, The Fletcher School; moderated by Carissa Page.
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 April 2010. Microfinance: Learning What Works, What Does Not and Why. Professor Dean Karlan, Yale University; moderated by Carissa Page. 
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 February 2010. Evaluating the Impact of Microfinance. Professor Esther Duflo, MIT; moderated by Don Sillers. 
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 January 2010. Microfinance and Islamic Finance: The Nexus. Professor Ibrahim Warde, Tufts University; moderated by Carissa Page. 
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 November 2009. Financing Clean Energy for the Bottom of the Pyramid: A Comparison of Approaches in India and Prospects for Replication. Mathew Chandy, Ella Delio and Elizabeth Isreal.
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October 2009. Strategic Considerations in Commercialization of Large-scale Microfinance Organizations: the Experience of the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) in Pakistan . Dr. Rashid Bajwa, Jesse Fripp.
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September 2009. New Directions in Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluations in Microfinance. Geetha Nagarajan, Michael Ferguson, Nigel Biggar.
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July 2009. New Developments in Reporting Standards for the Microfinance Industry. Speakers: Ruth Dueck Mbeba, Steve Wardle, Blaine Stephens, Lynn Exton, Drew Tulchin. 
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June 2009. The Potential and Limitations of Index-based Weather Insurance: Mali & Peru. Speakers: Jerry Skees, Lena Heron. 
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April 2009. Are Remittances Still Resilient? Exploring the Impact of the Global Economic Downturn on Migration and Remittances. Speakers: Borany Penh, Kathleen Newland, Sanket Mohapatra, DeVere Kutscher. 
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