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ESF Exploratory Workshop on
Workshop in Micro-Finance and Entrepreneurship
Oxford (UK), 31 May - 2 June 2009
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Programme
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Sunday 31 May 2009
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Afternoon Arrival
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Monday 1 June 2009
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Day 1: Microfinance and Entrepreneurship: Dialogue between Approaches
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08.45-08.50
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Welcome by Convenor
Rocco Macchiavello (Nuffield College, Oxford, UK)
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08.50-09.10
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Presentation of the European Science Foundation (ESF)
Patrick Paul Walsh, Standing Committee for Social Sciences (SCSS)
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Note: presentations are 1h long, followed by 15 minutes discussion.
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09.10-12.30
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Morning Session
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09.10-10.25
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Introducing Biometric Information to Identify Borrowers
Xavier Gine' (World Bank, Washinghton, USA)
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10.25-10.45
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Coffee break
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10.45-12.00
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Too Much Pressure? Explaining the Increased Use of Individual Liability Lending Contracts in Microfinance
Andreas Madestam (Bocconi University, Milan, Italy)
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12.15-12.45
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Presentation 3 - TBC
Orazio Attanasio (UCL, London, UK)
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13.00-14.30
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Lunch
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14.30-18.45
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Afternoon Session
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14.30-15.45
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Matching for Credit: Risk and Diversification in Thai Micro-Credit Borrowing Groups
Chris Alhin (Michigan State University, Michigan, USA)
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15.45-16.00
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Coffee break
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16.00-17.15
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Financial Literacy and Micro-Credit
Shawn Cole (Harvard Business School, Boston, USA)
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17.30-18.45
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Was Yunus Right? Present Bias, Loan Default and Repayment Frequency
Greg Fischer (LSE, London, UK)
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19.30
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Dinner
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Tuesday 2 June 2009
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Day 2: Looking Forward: Frontier Topics in Microfinance and Entrepreneurship
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09.00-12.30
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Morning Session
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09.00-09.30
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Empowering Adolescent Girls in Uganda
Imran Rasul (UCL, London UK)
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09.30-10.00
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Group Microinsurance Design with Costly State Verification
Daniel Clarke (Oxford University, Oxford, UK)
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10.00-10.30
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Identifying and Relaxing Constraints to Employment Generation in Small Scale African Enterprises
Chris Woodruff (University of California San Diego, California, USA)
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10.30-11.00
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Coffee / Tea Break
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11.00-11.30
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Presentation 4 - TBC
Jean Marie Baland (Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium)
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11.30-12.00
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The Importance of Holdup in Contracting: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Rajkmal Iyer (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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12.00-12.30
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The Creditworthiness of the Poor. A Model of the Grameen Bank
David Martinez-Miera (University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)
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12.30-14.00
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Lunch
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14.00-17.00
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Afternoon Session
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14.00-15.00
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NGO's Presentations
Munshi Sulaiman (BRAC, Bangladesh)
Xavier Gine' (The World Bank, Washington, US)
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15.00-15.30
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Coffee break
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15.30-16.30
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Discussion:
"Follow-up activities and opportunity for future collaborations"
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17.00
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End of Workshop and departure
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