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Policy Primer in Microfinance: What Have We Learned?

 Module 6

The Future of the Industry:
Where do we go from here?
Tuesday, December 19, 2000
9:00 am–12:00 pm EST

Objectives | Agenda | Presentations
Speakers´ Bios | Suggested Readings


Objectives

This module aims to provide the audience with an overview of the future of the industry and the many challenges that face the sector from both  regional and global perspectives.

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Agenda

Moderator
Heather Clarke, UNDP

Speakers
Marguerite Robinson, HIID Institute Fellow Emeritus
Nancy Barry, Women World Banking

Practitioners
Kimanthi Mutua (KREP, Kenya)
 

9:00 am

Welcome
Laurence Hart

9:05 am

Introduction of the topic and of the presenters
Heather Clarke

9:10 am

What does the future hold and can it survive under the current environment?
Marguerite Robinson

9:25 am

Is the industry equipped to face the future challenges? How successful it has been to meet these challenges?
Nancy Barry

9:40 am

Practitioner´s Viewpoint
Kimanthi Mutua

9:55 am

Break: Each site to discuss and prepare 2 questions.

10:30 am 

Q & As

11:00 am

Wrap up
Heather Clarke

11:10 am

Closing Remarks and Evaluation

12:00 pm

End of Module

 

 
   
   

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Presentations

What does the future hold and can it survive under the current environment?
Marguerite Robinson

Is the industry equipped to face the future challenges? How successful it has been to meet these challenges?
Nancy Barry

Practitioner´s Viewpoint
Kimanthi Mutua

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Speakers´ Bios

Marguerite Robinson is an Institute Fellow at Harvard University's Institute for International Development (HIID). Since 1979, Dr. Robinson has served as advisor to the Ministry of Finance, Government of Indonesia, and to the Bank Rakyat Indonesia on the development of BRI's nationwide unit banking system. She has also advised numerous other governments, banks and financial institutions on microfinance.
 

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Suggested Readings

Microfinance in the New Millennium: Efficiency, Customer Satisfaction, and Commercialization
Edited by Sahra Halpern
2000

Commercial Banks in Microfinance: New Actors in the Microfinance World

 

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Contact
Laurence Hart
lhart@worldbank.org
Tel: 202-458-5818
Fax: 202-676-9874
1818 H. Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20443
USA