XLRI Jamshedpur, India has issued a call for papers/presentations for the International Workshop on Inclusive Financial Innovation entitled “Making Finance and Insurance Markets Work for the Poor” to be held during March 1-3, 2012.
The workshop is expected to serve as a forum for intensive discussion among researchers, policy makers as well as field level practitioners involved in financial inclusion. Refereed papers and Cases of high quality presented at the workshop will be published by a well known international publisher.
Submission
XLRI invites completed papers (or work in their advanced stage) in all areas of inclusive financial innovations, including evaluation case studies. The Workshop will have few presentations of success stories by their innovators that have a wider replication.
Contributions in all areas of inclusive financial innovativeness are welcome:
Financial Market Architecture and Access to Poor; Financial Innovations as Market Access; Rural Finance Innovations; Pro-Poor Urban Finance Innovations; Micro and Small Enterprise Financing Innovations; Venture Capital Funds & Social Lending Arrangements; Structured Products, Credit Enhancements and Guarantees; Financial Innovations to Support Savings; Investment and Insurance-linked Products; Micro Insurance Products; Weather Derivatives & Crop Insurance; Commodity Finance and Risk Management; Managing Inflation Risk for Poor Households; Technology Innovations for Financial Inclusion; Transaction Banking Innovations Enabling Market Access; Review of International Experience
Papers with substantial analytical aspects, models of inclusive financial innovations and field level data analysis are preferred. We encourage papers and case studies to have broader perspectives, blending both conceptual rigor as well as practical applications, including identifying policy and regulatory constraints.
The workshop is expected to be participated by a small group of experts, and therefore will have intensive discussions. Participants are expected to serve as discussants/act as session chairs.
Poster Session
Case analysis, innovative research ideas and field level experiments are also considered for a poster session. Young researchers with innovative ideas/cases are particularly encouraged to apply for the poster session.
Funding
Accommodation expenses and local travel arrangements at Jamshedpur will be covered for all the speakers. Travel expenses within India can be covered for a limited number of academic participants with completed papers (or work in their advances stage), if confirmation is received by December 31, 2011.
Last date for submission of submission plan with an abstract is December 31, 2011
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