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Centre for Advanced Finance Research (CAFS)
Established in the year 2002, CAFS aims to be a high quality
resource to practitioners, researchers and policy makers in India
and emerging markets by conducting cutting edge research in
financial markets, institutions and instruments in India and other
emerging markets. CAFS faculty work in collaboration with renowned
international faculty on this research. Besides collaborative
research, CAFS conducts advanced courses in Finance through
executive development programmes, advanced elective courses in the
MBA program and a post graduate level program in advanced finance.
http://www.ifmr.ac.in/cafs
Centre for Micro Finance (CMF)
Microfinance in India is at an
inflexion point with new generation Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs)
and commercial banks driving scale rapidly. While the sector has
focused largely on expanding outreach, there is an urgent need to
fill some gaps in the practice and in the understanding of
microfinance in order to maximize and accelerate the impact of its
growth. To help fill some of these gaps, the Centre for Micro
Finance was established in February 2005 with the mission to help
improve the lives of the poor by participating in maximizing access
to financial services and its impact through rigorous research,
training and strategy building for MFIs. To achieve these
objectives, the Centre works in partnership with several Micro
Finance Institutions in India, banks and training institutions, and
with several academic institutions in India and abroad (including
MIT, Yale, Harvard, NYU, ISB). CMF
conducts research on Micro finance, though its research unit,
directed by leading Professors from the US like Dr. Abhijeet
Banerjee, Dr. Sendhil Mullainathan etc.
http://www.ifmr.ac.in/cmf
To complement the CMF’s Research
Unit, the MFIs Strategy Unit (MSU) was established in October 2005.
To be sustainable, MFIs will need to achieve a certain level of
scale to develop infrastructure, marketing, and technology. . MSU’s
objective is to work closely with MFIs to help them plan and execute
a growth strategy by addressing some of their issues around business
strategy, capital, human resources, and organization structure.
Centre for Development Finance (CDF)
Perceiving the enormous need for research in sustainable development
and finance, CDF was established in the year 2006. It is committed
to developing sustainable models for financing infrastructure and
services which includes innovative approaches to model public
private partnerships in financing infrastructure, broader aspects of
financial management at central, state and local governments, role
of technology, health, water, energy, sanitation and waste
management. It conducts research on public-private partnerships, infrastructure finance,
Municipal finance etc
http://www.ifmr.ac.in/cdf
mall Enterprise Finance Centre (SEFC)Driven by the need to fill the
research gap in finding ways of to alleviate financing, management
and labour market constraints for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs),
SEFC seeks to develop a vibrant SME sector through sustained
advancement of research and practice of SME financing and growth in
India by conducting and facilitating rigorous research programs in
cooperation with first class researchers and institutions worldwide.
Besides this, SEFC will offer regular advanced training courses for
Indian bankers in the area of SME financing. SEFC has also
developed, in collaboration with Financial Services Volunteer Corps
(FSVC), an American NGO specialized in banking training, a training
program for Indian bankers and policy makers on SME banking.
http://www.ifmr.ac.in/sefc
Centre
for Insurance & Risk Management (CIRM),
CIRM aims to develop risk mitigating instruments like Insurance,
Derivatives & Investments to reduce the vulnerability of the poor to
the many risks they face. The Centre is working towards becoming a
resource centre for imparting technical input and consultancy,
training clients for achieving higher levels of insurance literacy
and building technical expertise for product development.
focuses on insurance and risk management
http://www.ifmr.ac.in/cirm
J-PAL South Asia at IFMR(J-PAL South Asia):
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action lab (J-PAL) was started in June 2003 by
Professors Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Senthil Mullainathan at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. J-PAL was named in honor of Abdul Latif
Jameel in October 2005. J-PAL South Asia was
established in March 2007 due to the growth of J-PAL partnerships throughout
South Asia. It seeks to improve the effectiveness of poverty programs in South
Asia by providing policy makers with clear scientific results that help shape
successful policies to combat poverty
http://ifmr.ac.in/J-PAL
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