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Intro to Pro-Poor Financial Services

Codifies good practice in value chain development drawing from research conducted under the leadership of the USAID Microenterprise Development team.

After Hours Seminars

The USAID After Hours Seminar Series addresses hot topics in microfinance. Sponsored by the Microenterprise Development office, it's designed to be a casual, yet focused, sharing of timely research and new developments in microfinance. Join us in person or online to meet up with microfinance professionals to learn more about the latest thinking in microfinance initiatives.

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Viewing Value Chain and Household Finance From a Demand Perspective

February 16, 2012 | 10:00am

Geoffrey Chalmers, ACDI/VOCA

Financial access can be critical to reducing hunger and poverty in three ways. First, financial access for agricultural value chain development is needed throughout the value chain to achieve broad-based economic growth for low-income households.

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Recent After Hours

Overview of Microfinance Markets and Investment Opportunities in Russia and China

November 03, 2011

Ning Tang, Founder and CEO of CreditEase and Board member of the China Association of Microfinance, will provide an overview of the unique microfinance market in China.

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Previous After Hours

Linking Remittances Beyond Consumption with Housing Microfinance

October 13, 2011

This presentation by Diego Rios explores the ways in which the practice of sending remittances can be linked to asset building activities in one’s country of origin.

Financial Inclusion for Youth: Reaching the Next Generation

September 01, 2011

Seminar will highlight BRAC's approach towards empowering youth, SEEP's Practitioner Learning Program on Reaching Scale in Youth Financial Services, and Making Cents' approach to developing quality financial services.