ChicagoMicrofinance

Biggest Microfinance conference in the Midwest, collaboration of Chicago Booth School of Business, Kellogg School of Management & Harris School of Public Policy

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Concluded a great day of discussion and debate. Thanks to all the speakers and volunteers!

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Measuring the impact of Microfinance: Are we progressing towards the Millennium Development Goals?

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Microfinance accomplishments may predate accurate measurement of value-added by a decade: Tom Coleman, President and CEO, BBF

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Evaluation panel: taking a close look at how to effectively measure social impact and reach goals.

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Joe Schmidt talking about the Social Performance Matrix at the Impact panel

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Great discussion on impact of micro finance in the US and across the world!

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Impact Panel: poverty alleviation is the outcome that is measured through micro tracker by FIELD@AspenInstitute

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Policy Panel: funders playing a key role in regulating an unregulated industry with involved donors and funders.

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Discussing the differences between CDFIs and Banks.

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Policy Panel: CRA played a big role in the self regulated industry in the US

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40 M Nobel laureates in B'desh? Top that America @AlexCounts

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When you play at a big scale ... You take big risks! MFIs need to be aware of the political realities @AlexCounts

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Attendee from B'desh.. What to do when things get political in micro finance as it did in his country...

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Patient capital is may be what's missing on the investment side... @AlexCounts

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Engaging researchers will do micro finance a lot good! @AlexCounts

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Break down the complacency, innovate, use technology and rely on hard data to measure impact @AlexCounts

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We need to go back to our roots to reenergize the civil society says @AlexCounts

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Thanks to Priyanka Jayashankar from @mffocus for coming down from Iowa to cover the conference! Looking fwd to her articles & interviews

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Months of preps cmng 2 an end, rdy 4 the showdown tmrw. Lking fwd 2 the mrng keynote by @AlexCounts 4m @GrameenFdn.Watch ths spc 4 updts tmw

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@UIC_IES thanks for the follow-- hope you can join us for our panel on entrepreneurship!