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Finance:
Expert Group Meeting, New York, 18-19 October 2007
Expert Group Meeting: Innovative Finance for Sustainable Development
Presentations
Name
Affiliation/Title
Presentation
Session 1:
Financing agricultural R&D
Nienke Beintema
IFPRI
Investments Trends in and Funding Options for Agricultural Research with Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
William Masters
Purdue University
Innovative Finance for Agricultural R&D
Annik Dollacker
Bayer CropScience
Bayer CropScience and Agricultural R&D
Session 2:
Index-based insurance for agriculture
Jerry Skees
University of Kentucky
Using Index-based Risk Transfer Products to Facilitate Rural Lending in Mongolia, Peru, Vietnam
Olivier Mahul
World Bank
Promoting Innovative Sovereign Catastrophic Risk Financing Solutions
Hemanth Valvekar
BASIX
BASIX & Weather Insurance
Joanna Syroka
WFP/World Bank
Experiences in Index-Based Weather Insurance for Agriculture- Lessons Learnt from India & Malawi
Christina Ulardic
Swiss Re
Index Based Insurance for Agriculture
Session 3:
Micro health insurance in Africa
Gerry Noble
MicroCare
Affordable Access to Quality Healthcare
Rupalee Ruchismita
IFMR
Proliferation & Penetration of Micro Health Insurance- A Few Lessons
Agnes Chakonta
Madison Insurance
Microinsurance and HIV/AIDS in Zambia
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Session 4:
Sub-national instruments for financing basic utilities
Jason Ngobeni
City of Johannesburg
Sub-National Instruments for Financing Basic Utilities & the City of Johannesburg
Isaura A. Guzmán L.
Fitch Ratings
The Role of International Credit Ratings in Financing Utilities- The Case of Mexico
Randall Dodd
IMF
Lessons From The U.S.-Muni bond market inefficiencies and what to do about them
Vikram Kapur
Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Ltd.
Case study from India- Tamil Nadu Urban Development Fund
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