Inclusive Finance:Making Finance and Insurance Markets Work for the Poor
Venue: XLRI Jamshedpur
Location: Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
Event Date/Time: Mar 01, 2012 | End Date/Time: Mar 03, 2012 |
Early Registration Date: Feb 15, 2012 | |
Abstract Submission Date: Dec 31, 2011 | |
Paper Submission Date: Feb 15, 2012 |
Description
Inclusive Finance: Making Finance and Insurance Markets Work for the Poor
March 1-3, 2012 XLRI Jamshedpur(India)
Building an inclusive financial sector serving the asset poor households, marginalized communities as well as micro entrepreneurs, who stay at lower rung of the economic and social stratification, remains a key task of policy. Providing sustainable business and employment opportunity to the entrepreneurial class at the bottom of the pyramid require finance. There is need to design innovative financial contracts and instruments, unbundling risk of lenders as well as borrowers, to improve access to finance. Such innovations in financial contract design and risk unbundling can have tremendous potential for financial inclusion, and at the same time enhance confidence among formal financial institutions.
The workshop is expected to serve as a forum for intensive discussion among researchers, policy makers as well as field level practitioners involved in innovative financial inclusion.� Participants are expected to serve as discussants/act as session chairs. The workshop is expected to be participated by a small group of presenters, and therefore will have intensive discussion. Papers with substantial analytical aspects, models of inclusive innovations and filed level data analysis are preferred. We encourage papers and case studies that have broader perspectives, blending both conceptual rigor as well as practical applications, including identifying policy and regulatory constraints.
Submission:� Completed papers (or work in their advanced stage) are invited in areas of inclusive financial innovations, including evaluation case studies. The Workshop will have few presentations of success stories by their innovators that have an wider replication.
Contributions in all areas of inclusive financial innovativeness are welcome:
1. Financial Market Architecture and Access to Poor
2. Financial Innovations as Market Access
3. Rural Finance Innovations
4. Pro-Poor Urban Finance Innovations
5. Micro and Small Enterprise Financing Innovations
6. Venture Capital Funds & Social Lending Arrangements
7. Structured Products, Credit Enhancements and Guarantees
8. Financial Innovation to Support Savings
9. Investment and Insurance-linked Products
10. Micro Insurance Products
11. Weather Derivatives & Crop Insurance �
12. Commodity Finance and Risk Management
13. Managing Inflation Risk for Poor Households
14. Technology Innovations for Financial Inclusion
15. Transaction Banking Innovations Enabling Market Access
16. Review of International Experience
Poster Session: Case analysis, innovative research ideas and field level experiments are also considered for a poster session. Young researchers with innovative ideas are particularly encouraged to apply for the poster session.