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Upcoming Conference: “Microfinance from Below,” Tufts Fletcher

Posted by on 15 December, 2008 in Conferences, Opportunities
4 Comments

This upcoming March 26th – 28th, 2009, the Tufts Fletcher School will be holding a conference entitled, “Microfinance from Below: The Power of Savings and Savings Groups in Frontier Economies.” Registration is free. More details follow below:

The Center for Emerging Market Enterprises (CEME) at The Fletcher School, Tufts University—with support from Oxfam America and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—will host a conference in March 2009 that explores the dual nature of savings groups. As a subject of debate within the microfinance sector, groups constitute both a target of and shield against exploitation, a market for and competitor to commercial alternatives, and a means of both communal unity and division. The “Microfinance from Below: The Power of Savings and Savings Groups in Frontier Economies” conference will examine the potential and limits of financial self-service, the social nature of savings groups, and the best ways for institutions to form, strengthen, and serve them—and then let them go.


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4 Comments on “Upcoming Conference: “Microfinance from Below,” Tufts Fletcher”

  • Dr Stella odebode
    12 January, 2009, 6:42

    I am a senior lecturer,Department of Agric Extension & Rural Devt Universityn of Ibadan, Nigeria

  • Prabhath Patabendi
    26 January, 2009, 4:03

    I would like to participate this event. Please send me more detils

  • Shital
    26 January, 2009, 9:13

    Prabhath, please click on the link provided in the post for further details. ThinkChange India is not involved in organizing this conference.

  • Verena Joyce
    4 May, 2012, 22:06

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