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(Chicago, IL) When health care reform in Thailand increased payments to public hospitals for indigent care, more poor people sought medical treatment and infant mortality was reduced, even though the cost of medical care remained free for the poor, a new study shows.
The study, “The Great Equalizer: Health...
(March 28, 2013—Chicago, IL) The Chicago premiere of Emerging Thailand: The Spirit of Small Enterprise—a documentary detailing the 15 years Prof. Robert Townsend has spent tracking the village economies of Thailand—is scheduled for Thursday, May 16 at 7 p.m. on the University of...
(March 22, 2013) The Boston premiere of Emerging Thailand: The Spirit of Small Enterprise—a documentary detailing the 15 years Prof. Robert M. Townsend has spent tracking the village economies of Thailand—is scheduled for Tuesday, April 23 at 6 p.m. on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
...(Dec. 21, 2012—Chicago, IL) Twelve economists with the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty (CFSP) are scheduled to present at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA) in San Diego on Jan. 4-6, 2013. Last year 10 CFSP economists spoke at the conference.
Consortium economists will speak on a variety...
(Chicago, IL) - Mexican cities and villages where credit exceeds savings deposits offer a higher quality of life and a more educated citizenry, according to 12 years of financial data released by Mexico’s National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV). The research was funded by the Consortium on Financial Systems...
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La Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores en conjunto con el Consorcio sobre Sistemas Financieros y Pobreza (CFSP por sus siglas en inglés) anuncia la publicación de la base de datos Ahorro Financiero e Intermediación a nivel Municipal (MSI por sus siglas...
(via EUREKA ALERT - Chicago, IL) The Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty, jointly with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the UK Department for International Development, will host a conference titled, “Financial Deepening, Macro-Stability, and Growth in Developing Countries...
(via PR NEWSWIRE and EUREKA ALERT –Chicago, IL) A major argument in favor of microfinance is that the poor who live in areas without banking services will gain higher returns on investments and increase their assets when provided with credit.
But a notable new study from the Consortium on...
(Chicago, IL) CFSP economists Joseph P. Kaboski of the University of Notre Dame and Robert M. Townsend of Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been named the 2012 recipients of the prestigious Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society for a ground-breaking paper they wrote on the structural evaluation of microfinance programs. The...
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