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B8354-001Markets for the Poor

Postgraduate course

Project description

This course is designed to give students a rigorous, research, policy and practice-based understanding of topics including: measurement and the underlying drivers of poverty; informal credit markets � and their interest rates and default rates � in areas such as Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCA), payday loans, and more established markets in consumer credit; the role of microfinance (loans, savings and insurance) in delivering financial services to the poor, and how access to capital markets by way of debt issues, initial public offers, and collateralized debt obligations have changed the landscape of microfinance; and innovations by corporations and governments in extending markets in healthcare, marketing and distribution of goods produced by the poor.