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This discussion group has been formed to enable participants in the Rural Finance Research Conference held recently at the FAO Headquarters in Rome to extend their conversation and involve others in the debate about the critical issue of Moving Results into Policy and Practice.
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Fwd: Material Futures
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Anyone have any idea if this is relevant for issues such as non-financial services related to finance? The dfn list serve has a lot of chatter these days about non-financial services. Dick
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Topic 4: Summary of discussion has been posted
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The summary of the key points made in relation to topic 4: "How should donors and research funding agencies prioritize and decide which research topics to support?" has now been posted in the Pages section of the discussion site. Click on [link]... more »
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Time up! The e-conference is closing... Many thanks...
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Dear Colleagues, It is now the 29th May and time to draw this e-conference to a close. It was a big experiment for us to try to organise something like this and I think, on the whole, we consider it has been a success. Those of you who have made the time to contribute have told fascinating stories, shared some valuable insights and made a host of useful... more »
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Topic 3: Summary of discussion has been posted
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Dear Colleagues, We have posted a summary of the discussion on topic 3: "How can research quality be assured and in what format should research findings be disseminated to ensure they are used?" in the Pages section of the discussion group. Click on [link]... more »
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Research Priorities
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Dear Colleagues, The top five priority areas are 1. Cutting Transactions Costs Application of IT solutions...cell phone banking, PDAs, wireless laptops, ATMs, POS, etc. 2 . Interest rate elasticities. Morduch has found some evidence of inelasticity in urban microfinance. Need to do for many different rural settings around the world.... more »
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Introduction to Topic 5 has now been posted
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Dear All, We come now to our final question for this e-conference: "What topics would you prioritize for funding today?" and hope that many of you will be keen to contribute to this practical question. We really appreciate all the contributions that have been made so far and hope that this final topic will encourage even more of you to have your... more »
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Topic 2: Summary of discussion has been posted
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You will find a summary of the key points made in Topic 2: "How can practitioners and researchers work more closely together to identify and analyze problems?" in the Pages section of the discussion group. Click on [link] - or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't... more »
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Quality Research and Dissemination
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I believe that donors can assure quality in rural finance research by developing and funding "lines of investigation" that are well conceived, well integrated, participatory, adequately funded, and relevant. The way that research is generally done at multilateral institutions is one of three ways. First, a staff person obtains donor trust fund monies (grant money) to... more »
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Introduction to Topic 4 has now been posted
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An introduction to Topic 4: "How should donors and research funding agencies prioritize and decide which research topics to support?" has been posted in English in the Pages section of the discussion group. French and Spanish translations will follow. We look forward to your thoughts on this over the next two days.... more »
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Intervention by Dr. Moh'd Mustafa- NENARACA Secretary General
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1. Research influences government policy making when it emanates from or requested by the government, towards answering certain questions. Supply driven research is of meager impact. Most universities' research is of the latter. 2. University graduates, even Ph.D. holders can not draw sound conclusions and give concrete answers to certain questions without... more »
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