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Day 1: Wednesday, September 29
8:30am-9:00am Registration
9:00am-9:30am Welcome and introductions by Director Bill Maurer
9:30am-10:30am Session 1: Money and the life-course
Discussant: Scott Mainwaring, Intel Labs
- Money, conflict, and reciprocity in rural families in Zambia: The case of female university students, by Robert Tembo
- Consumption smoothening, financial literacy and old age vulnerability: Experiences of success and failure with a private pension system in Chile, by Aldo Madariaga, Nicolas Perez, and Rodrigo Figueroa
10:30am-11:00am Networking Break
11:00am-12:30pm Session 2: Getting by and making do: techniques for mitigating financial insecurity
Discussant: Mark Pickens, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)
- Small ruminants as a source of financial security: A case study of rural women in Southwest Nigeria, by Isaac B. Oluwatayo and Titilayo Busayo Oluwatayo
- Evaluation of money management strategies between the urban and rural ultra poor: A study in Tamil Nadu, India, by Lakshmi Kumar
- Post-redenomination and money managment among Ghana's urban poor, by Edwin Clifford Mensah and Vivian Dzokoto
12:30pm-2:00pm Lunch (provided)
2:00pm-3:30pm
Session 3: The circulation of people and commodities
Discussant: David Pedersen, UC San Diego
- Follow the Bean: Navigating value exchange and vulnerability for cooperative coffee farmers and their stakeholders, by Melissa Cliver, Catherine Howard, and Rudy Yuly
- Mobiles, migrants, and money: A study of mobility at the Haitian-Dominican Republic border, by Heather Horst, Erin Taylor, and Espelencia Baptiste
- Unknown remittances of the migrants who have died abroad: A study on the recovery and dynamics of usage remittances in Bangladesh, by AKM Ahsan Ullah
3:30pm-4:15pm
Networking Break
Poster session with IMTFI 2009 Researchers, see their
completed work
4:15pm-5:00pm
"Regulatory Aspects of Mobile Money in Developing Countries" by Leon Perlman
5:00pm-6:30pm Cocktail reception with dinner (provided)
Day 2: Thursday, September 30
9:00am-10 :30am
Session 4: New technology and new sources of data for the study of mobile money
and branchless banking
Discussant: Jonathan Donner, Microsoft Research
India
- The impact of new technologies on social payments (case study in Ethiopia), by Woldmariam Mesfin Fikre
- Financial inclusion in Sri Lanka: Constraints and prospects, by Sirimevan S.S. Colombage
- Banking on the phone: Using novel sources of data to understand the impact of mobile banking in Rwanda, by Joshua Blumenstock
10 :30am-11:00am
Networking Break
11:00am-12:30pm
Session 5: Money and modernity in indigenous and marginalized communities
Discussant: Julia Elyachar, UC Irvine
- Financial inclusion or developmental exclusion? The carbon credit payment to forest inhabitants in Brazilian Amazon, by Shaozeng Zhang
- Gender and money: Case studies from Philippine indigenous communities, by Mary Janet M. Arnado
- Moni, marginality, and modernization in postcolonial Papua New Guinea, by Eric K. Silverman
12:30pm-2:00pm Lunch (provided)
2:00pm-3:30pm
Session 6: The interface of savings and microfinance
Discussant: Olga Morawczynski, Grameen Foundation’s
AppLab
- Adapting and extending the use of accumulating savings and credit associations through village savings and loans association: The case of Care International in Malawi, by Chinyamata Chipeta
- Banking and Microfinance in Brazil, by Kurt von Mettenheim and Lauro Gonzalez
- ‘Democratizing Capital:’ Digital Lending Networks, Mobile Technologies and Women’s Solidarity Groups in Chiapas, Mexico and Guatemala, by Anke Schwittay and Paul Braund
3:30m-4:00pm Networking Break
4:00pm-4:45pm "The impact of M-PESA: results from a panel survey of Kenyan households"
by Billy Jack
4:45
pm-5:30pm Closing remarks and open discussion