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Michael McCord, President, MicroInsurance Centre, LLC talks about the factors that push the growth of microinsurance, the evolution of products and the biggest challenge in microinsurance.
09:19 minutes
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Michael McCord, President, MicroInsurance Centre, LLC talks about the best potential delivery channels for michroinsurance.
Since its inception as an initiative of MicroSave, The MicroInsurance Centre, LLC has worked on several levels to promote responsible microinsurance. The MicroInsurance Centre is the only independent institution that is entirely focused on actively promoting the partnership model of microinsurance. In this model, appropriate institutions are linked with regulated insurance companies to provide professional insurance products to the low-income market. This method has proven to provide important risk management tools to low-income people, provide an addition to the product lines of intermediary institutions, and allow insurers to enter this market efficiently and profitably.
06:34 minutes
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Michael McCord, President, MicroInsurance Centre, LLC gives a definition of microinsurance and talks about the mechanisms of implementing microinsurance successfully.
Since its inception as an initiative of MicroSave, The MicroInsurance Centre, LLC has worked on several levels to promote responsible microinsurance. The MicroInsurance Centre is the only independent institution that is entirely focused on actively promoting the partnership model of microinsurance. In this model, appropriate institutions are linked with regulated insurance companies to provide professional insurance products to the low-income market. This method has proven to provide important risk management tools to low-income people, provide an addition to the product lines of intermediary institutions, and allow insurers to enter this market efficiently and profitably.
08:04 minutes
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Daryl Collins, co-author of “Portfolios of the Poor” and Senior Associate at Bankable Frontier Associates talks about implementing lessons from Portfolios of the Poor in South Africa.
Daryl’s principal area of research is estimating the impact of microfinance programs on the financial management of poor households. From 2003 to 2006, she was the principal investigator for a longitudinal study called the Financial Diaries project funded by the Ford Foundation and DFID in South Africa. This study became the basis of a book, Portfolios of the Poor.
08:10 minutes
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Daryl Collins, co-author of “Portfolios of the Poor” and Senior Associate, Bankable Frontier Associates talks about implementing lessons from Portfolios of the Poor in South Africa.
Daryl’s principal area of research is estimating the impact of microfinance programs on the financial management of poor households. From 2003 to 2006, she was the principal investigator for a longitudinal study called the Financial Diaries project funded by the Ford Foundation and DFID in South Africa. This study became the basis of a book, Portfolios of the Poor.
07:31 minutes
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Sukhwinder Singh Arora, co-author of two books ‘Small Customer, Big Market: Commercial Banks in Microfinance’ (with Malcolm Harper) and ‘The Poor and their Money’ (with Stuart Rutherford) talks about how the lessons from Portfolios of the Poor help providers design better products.
Over the past 25 years, Sukhwinder Arora has worked for a range of development organisations at micro, meso and macro level. Sukhwinder’s core work has been on policies and programmes designed to enable poor people to participate in and benefit from financial and other markets.
08:00 minutes
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Richard Rosenberg, consultant to CGAP, talks about the value proposition of microfinance and how this relates to the price for financial services.
Richard has been with CGAP since its founding in 1995. He has written or contributed to numerous CGAP publications. His current areas of focus include interest rate issues, over-indebtedness, and regulation of microfinance. He is a core faculty member of the Microfinance Training Program at The Boulder Institute.
07:46 minutes
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Richard Rosenberg, consultant to CGAP, talks about the value proposition of microfinance and how this relates to the price for financial services.
Richard has been with CGAP since its founding in 1995. He has written or contributed to numerous CGAP publications. His current areas of focus include interest rate issues, over-indebtedness, and regulation of microfinance. He is a core faculty member of the Microfinance Training Program at The Boulder Institute.
06:03 minutes
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Richard Rosenberg, consultant to CGAP, highlights the biggest findings of “Portfolios of the Poor”.
Richard has been with CGAP since its founding in 1995. He has written or contributed to numerous CGAP publications. His current areas of focus include interest rate issues, over-indebtedness, and regulation of microfinance. He is a core faculty member of the Microfinance Training Program at The Boulder Institute.
09:52 minutes
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Yaw Nyarko, Professor of Economics at New York University and Director of NYU Africa House, talks about the particulars of the research for Portfolios of the Poor and how it will influence the development of new research trends.
Yaw Nyarko is a theoretical economist whose current work focuses on two main areas: (1) models where the economic actors engage in active learning about their environments and (2) human capital models of economic growth and development.
08:00 minutes
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Jonathan Morduch, co-author of “Portfolios of the Poor” shares his opinion on what the book tells us about reimagining microfinance.
Jonathan Morduch is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and Managing Director of the Financial Access Initiative, a consortium of researchers focused on financial inclusion.
Morduch has taught on the Economics faculty at Harvard University, and has held visiting positions at Stanford, Princeton, and the University of Tokyo. He has worked with the United Nations and World Bank, and advises global NGOs. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives and on the board of the Journal of Globalization and Development.
06:49 minutes
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Jonathan Morduch, co-author of “Portfolios of the Poor” shares his opinion on what the book tells us about reimagining microfinance.
Jonathan Morduch is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and Managing Director of the Financial Access Initiative, a consortium of researchers focused on financial inclusion.
Morduch has taught on the Economics faculty at Harvard University, and has held visiting positions at Stanford, Princeton, and the University of Tokyo. He has worked with the United Nations and World Bank, and advises global NGOs. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives and on the board of the Journal of Globalization and Development.
MicroSave and the Financial Access Initiative invite you to join the authors of Portfolios of the Poor for a two-day virtual conference. This event will be moderated by co-authors Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford and Orlanda Ruthven, and MicroSave’s Graham Wright. Dates: June 8-9, 2010 For more information and free registration, please visit www.MicroSave.org
09:08 minutes
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William Easterly explains how Portfolios of the Poor gives us a more realistic look at the life of poor people and how it changes the perspective on the “consumption smoothing” concept.
William Easterly is an American economist, specializing in economic growth and foreign aid. He is a Professor of Economics at New York University, joint with Africa House, and Co-Director of NYU’s Development Research Institute. He is also a visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a non-resident Fellow of the Center for Global Development in Washington DC. Easterly is an associate editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Economic Growth, and of the Journal of Development Economics.
MicroSave and the Financial Access Initiative invite you to join the authors of Portfolios of the Poor for a two-day virtual conference. This event will be moderated by co-authors Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford and Orlanda Ruthven, and MicroSave’s Graham Wright. Dates: June 8-9, 2010 For more information and free registration, please visit www.MicroSave.org
08:06 minutes
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Stuart Rutherford, co-author of “Portfolios of the Poor” talks about Grameen-2, SafeSave and Buro in Bangladesh. He also gives his opinion on the potential of e-banking and m-banking for microfinance industry.
MicroSave and the Financial Access Initiative invite you to join the authors of Portfolios of the Poor for a two-day virtual conference.
This event will be moderated by co-authors Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford and Orlanda Ruthven, and MicroSave’s Graham Wright.
Dates: June 8-9, 2010
For more information and free registration, please visit www.MicroSave.org
09:35 minutes
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Stuart Rutherford, co-author of “Portfolios of the Poor” talks about the financial products that poor people need from MFIs.
MicroSave and the Financial Access Initiative invite you to join the authors of Portfolios of the Poor for a two-day virtual conference.
This event will be moderated by co-authors Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford and Orlanda Ruthven, and MicroSave’s Graham Wright.
Dates: June 8-9, 2010
For more information and free registration, please visit www.MicroSave.org
08:21 minutes
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Stuart Rutherford, co-author of “Portfolios of the Poor” and Graham Wright, Program Director, MicroSave, talk about the key lessons of the book in terms of poor people’s financial behavior.
Stuart is the founder of SafeSave Bangladesh, an organization that provides reliable basic banking services, profitably, to poor men, women, and children in Dhaka. He became interested in how poor people manage their lives and their money as a result of working in developing countries as an architect and then for NGOs. From this perspective he became involved in microfinance as a practitioner (in Bangladesh), teacher, consultant, and writer. He is the author of The Poor and Their Money (Oxford University Press, 2000) and is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester, UK. He lives in Japan.
06:59 minutes
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Stuart Rutherford, co-author of “Portfolios of the Poor”, talks about the inspiration for the research on financial diaries that was the foundation of the book.
Stuart is the founder of SafeSave Bangladesh, an organization that provides reliable basic banking services, profitably, to poor men, women, and children in Dhaka. He became interested in how poor people manage their lives and their money as a result of working in developing countries as an architect and then for NGOs. From this perspective he became involved in microfinance as a practitioner (in Bangladesh), teacher, consultant, and writer. He is the author of The Poor and Their Money (Oxford University Press, 2000) and is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester, UK. He lives in Japan.
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Bob Christen, director of the Financial Services for the Poor initiative at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, introduces the groundbreaking book, Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day. The authors of the book recorded and analyzed the financial diaries of a group of households in Bangladesh, India and South Africa.
06:33 minutes
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Richard Rosenberg, consultant to CGAP, discusses how the Compartamos IPO affected investors and competitors, and whether the experience was a singular event or is likely to be repeated.
08:09 minutes
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