Global Pandemic Meets Microfinance: Impact on Poor Households and What the Industry Needs to Do Now
Friday April 10, 9am ET (US)
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About the Webinar
This edition of faiVLive brings together expert practitioners and researchers to discuss how we should be thinking about the impact of COVID-19 and pandemic control policies on poor households in developing countries, what policy interventions are plausible and possible, what role does microfinance have to play, and what needs to happen to enable the global microfinance industry to be useful now and six months from now.
Featuring
Shameran Abed, Senior Director of BRAC’s microfinance and ultrapoor graduation schemes
Greta Bull, CEO of CGAP and a director at the World Bank Group
Deborah Burand, Professor of Clinical Law at NYU and the Co-Director of the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship
Neville Crawley, CEO at Kiva
Jonathan Morduch, Professor of Public Policy and Economics at NYU-Wagner, and a founder and Executive Director of the Financial Access Initiative
Stuart Rutherford, Leader of the Hrishipara Financial Diaries; founder and Chairman of Bangladeshi financial services co-operative SafeSave
Moderator
Timothy Ogden, Managing Director of the NYU Financial Access Initiative
If you have questions for our panelists, please submit them to contact@financialaccess.org, or tweet them @financialaccess. The video webinar is limited to 100 participants. Register to reserve your spot.*
Support
This faiVLive is part of the Household Financial Security Insight Community, supported by the Mastercard Impact fund, and in collaboration with the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.
*Update: we’ve increased the size of our webinar to 500 to accommodate increased demand.
Editor’s Note: I’m going to assume that you are seeing plenty of AI content (news and papers, not AI slop, though I’m sure you’re getting plenty of that too) from other sources, so I’m trying to think hard about the marginal value that the faiV can provide. As far as I’ve gotten so far: a) make sure that directly AI-related content does not take up more than 2 of the 5 items, and b) try to focus specifically on the cybersecurity issue for financial inclusion. Beyond that, I’m open to feedback on the value you get from the faiV in relation to AI to help guide us in the future. On a different note, I’ll be making a brief cameo appearance at the e-MFP Inclusive Finance Conference to moderate the opening plenary. If you haven’t registered, do so and I hope to see you there! - Tim Ogden