Event Name: Penn Microfinance Conference: DiversiMFIcation, The New Landscape of Microfinance
Event Date: March 30, 2013
Event Location: Jon M. Huntsman Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Cost: Admission is USD 10 for the public, USD 5 for all other students and free for students of the University of Pennsylvania.
Summary of Event: This conference will cover how diversification into areas such as insurance has become important for the sustainability of microfinance following ethical crises, increases in regulation and growing commercialization. The conference will include a keynote speech by David Roodman, a senior fellow at the US-based nonprofit Center for Global Development. It will also include lectures on the expansion of micro-services, microfinance and ethics, regulation, and new lending models and methods. Two action panels will discuss how attendees can get involved in microfinance.
Background on Organizer: Penn Microfinance is an undergraduate microfinance organization based out of the University of Pennsylvania, a private institution of higher learning.
Event Website: http://pennmicrofinance.org/conference/
For additional information, you may contact the organization at +1 267 777 8242 or by email at contact[at]pennmicrofinance.org.
By Charlotte Newman, Research Associate
Sources and Additional Resources:
7th Annual Penn Microfinance Conference, http://pennmicrofinance.org/conference/
MicroCapital.org story, “MICROFINANCE EVENT: Sixth Annual University of Pennsylvania Microfinance Conference, “Microfinance 2.0: An Agenda for Revival”, March 24, 2012, Philadelphia, USA,” https://www.microcapital.org/microfinance-event-sixth-annual-university-of-pennsylvania-microfinance-conference-microfinance-2-0-an-agenda-for-revival-march-24-2012-philadelphia-usa/
MicroCapital.org story, “MICROFINANCE EVENT: 6th African Microfinance Conference, August 13 – 15, 2013, Durban, South Africa,” https://www.microcapital.org/microfinance-event-6th-african-microfinance-conference-august-13-15-2013-durban-south-africa/
MicroCapital.org story, “MICROFINANCE EVENT: Microfinance and Impact Investing Initiative (MI3) to Host Symposium ‘US Poverty, Microentrepreneurs and Microfinance: Needs, Responses and Prospects,’ March 28-29, 2013, Haverford, Pennsylvania, US,” https://www.microcapital.org/microfinance-event-microfinance-and-impact-investing-initiative-mi3-to-host-symposium-us-poverty-microentrepreneurs-and-microfinance-needs-responses-and-prospects-march-28-29/
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