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Papers presented during the conference:
- 07/04/2008 - "CERMi Seminars in Microfinance " :
Prof. Begona Gutierrez Nieto is a member of the Accounting and Finance Department (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain). She holds a Ph.D. in Economical and managerial sciences. Her areas of research are: microcredit in Spain, and financial and accounting analysis of microfinance institutions.
Prof. Cecilio Mar Molinero is the Director of MSc in Management Science and MSc in Management Science with Computing of the Kent Business School (UK). He has recently worked in efficiency analysis, and has developed models for input/output selection. These models have been applied to bank branches and microfinance institutions, and to the assessment of insurance risk.
Venue: 21 av. Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels
Title: A DEA approach to MFI efficiency - See also Powerpoint Presentation
- 13/03/2008 - "CERMi Seminars in Microfinance " :
Prof. Isabelle Guérin is a member of the “Institut de Recherche pour le Développement” (Université de Provence, France) and an associate researcher at the Centre Walras (“Institut des Sciences de l’Homme”, Lyon, France). Her research areas are financial exclusion, entrepreneurship in microfinance, social justice, and gender inequalities.
Venue: 21 av. Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels
Title: Clientelism and Brokerage as Risk Management in Microfinance, Case Study in South India - See also Powerpoint Presentation
- 05/03/2008 - "CERMi Seminars in Microfinance " :
Prof. Cécile Lapenu holds a PhD in agricultural economics from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Montpellier and was a Post-doctoral fellow at IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, USA). She is currently the General Secretary of the “Comité d’Echange, de Reflexion et d’Information sur les Systèmes d’Epargne-crédit” network (CERISE, France). She is currently a visiting professor in the European Master in Microfinance (Académie-Wallonie-Bruxelles, Belgium).
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17/03/2008 - "CERMi Seminars in Microfinance " :
Mr Fouad Abdelmoumni founded the Association Al Amana and is up till today the General Manager of this MFI. Between 2003 and 2005, he exercised the post of Chairman of the board of Sanabel, a network of MFI’s in the Arabic countries. Since this year 2008, M. Abdelmoumni has become member of the Executive Committee of CGAP. M. Abdelmoumni is also very active in the domain of civil society. He was and often still is member of, among others, AfriMAP (African Governance, Monitoring and Advocacy) and AMDH (Moroccan Human Rights Association), and founded TrustAfrica (a foundation for peace, economical prosperity and social justice) and Espace Associatif, an NGO for the advancement of civil society and democracy.
Venue: Room H1308, ULB Solbosch Campus, Av. Paul Héger, 1050 Brussels
Title: Challenges in the development of the microfinance sector in the Middle-East and the Mediterranean countries - Click here to see the invitation
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21/02/2008 - "CERMi Seminars in Microfinance " :
Prof. James Copestake is a member of the Centre for Development Studies (University of Bath, UK). He teaches development economics and is Director of Studies for postgraduate research students in international development. He carries out his own research in the fields of agrarian change, microfinance, poverty, social protection and aid management, mainly in India, Zambia, Malawi, Bolivia and Peru.
Venue: 21 av. Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels
Title: Microfinance, mental models and wellbeing - Click here for abstract
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12/02/2008 - "CERMi Seminars in Microfinance " :
Mr. Paolo Casini is a PhD student working under the supervision of Prof. Georg Kirchsteiger at ECARES (ULB). He holds a degree in Economics from the Università “G.d’Annunzio”, Pescara, and an MA in Economics and Statistics from Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). His research interests are Microfinance, Microeconomics and Industrial Organization.
Venue: 21 av. Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels
- 18/12/2007 - "CERMi Seminars in Microfinance " :
Speaker : Anaïs Hamelin
Title : "Les limites de l’utilisation du micro crédit dans la lutte contre la pauvreté : le cas du travail des enfants"
Participants : Sylvie Fanta, Marek Hudon, Jean Chirac Kindu Mundeke Mushagaluk, Marc Labie, Miriam Lemmens, Pierre-Guillaume Méon, Anaïs Périlleux, Kyoko Sakuma, Mathias Schmit, Ariane Szafarz, Ritha Sukadi, Diana Vasquez.
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14/12/2007 - Symposium : "Journée franco-belge de la Microfinance" in Lyon (France)
Project Tournesol
Speakers : Célestin Mayoukou (CARE, Université de Rouen) ; Jean-Michel Servet (IUED, Université de Genève) ; Dorothée Masquita (Université de Rouen)
ULB speakers : Anaïs Périlleux; Laurent Gheeraert ; Ritha Sukadi ; Marek Hudon
Click here to find the program of the symposium
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30/11/2007 - "CERMi Seminars in Microfinance" :
Speaker : Mankash Sriram
Title: "Financial Flows of the Rural Poor: A study in Dungarpur District, India"
Participants : Sylvie Fanta, Marek Hudon, Anaïs Périlleux, Ariane Szafarz, Ritha Sukadi, Diana Vasquez.
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26-27-28/11/2007 : "Microfinance Week in Luxembourg"
Participants from CERMi : Marek Hudon, Marc Labie, Anaïs Périlleux, Ritha Sukadi, Sylvie Fanta, Ludovic Urghege, Ephrem Niyongabo.
- 01/11/2007 : "Colloque : La microfinance au Maroc"
Study days on microfinance in Morocco. The colloquium was be held in Casablanca in partnership with Hassan II Aïn Chock University of Casablanca. The objective of the study day is the presentation of the last projects of researchers in microfinance of both institutions and also the setup of a new partnership for future collaborations between both universities.
Click here to find the program of the colloquium
In the framework of the Van Buuren project
Speakers from CERMi : Anaïs Périlleux, Ritha Sukadi, Annabel Vanroose, Diana Vasquez
Participants from CERMi : Sylvie Fanta, Marek Hudon, Marc Labie, Miriam Lemmens, Gabriele Merli, Pierre-Guillaume Méon, Aurélie Rousseaux, Ariane Szafarz, Daniel Traça, Ludovic Urgeghe.
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26/10/2007 : "Colloque : Journée franco-belge de la Microfinance"
Project Tournesol
Speakers from Lyon : Eddy Bloy, Cyril Fouillet, Jean-Marc Servet
Speakers from ULB : Sylvie Fanta, Marek Hudon, Marc Labie
Participants : Céline Cops, Nicolas Görtz, Joël Ludvigsen, Hisham Majbar, Ephrem Niyongabo, Anaïs Périlleux, Jonathan Prado, Grégory Rayee, Ariane Szafarz, Ritha Sukadi, Daniel Traça, Ludovic Urgeghe, Annabel Vanroose, Diana Vasquez, Laurent Weill.
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10/10/2007 :
Launch of the European Research Centre in Microfinance. Debate- conference by Professor Beatriz Armendariz Harvard University.
Click here to download a resume of this ceremony.
- 09/10/2007 - "CERMi Seminars in Microfinance" :
Speaker: Annabel Vanroose
Title: "The uneven development of the microfinance sector"
Participants : Sylvie Fanta, Marek Hudon, Marc Labie, Anaïs Périlleux, Ariane Szafarz, Ritha Sukadi, Diana Vasquez.
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02/10/2007 - "CERMi Seminars in Microfinance" :
Presentation of the CERMi to Béatriz Armendariz
Participants: Sylvie Fanta, Marek Hudon, Miriam Lemmens, Gabriele Merli, Anaïs Périlleux, Ariane Szafarz, Ritha Sukadi, Annabel Vanroose, Diana Vasquez.
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