Job opportunity! ODID and @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social seek applications for an Associate Professor in Development Economics.

⏰ Deadline: 8 December

Full information: www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

PEDL 15th Anniversary Conference @cepr.org

Bringing together researchers studying the behaviour of firms in low-income countries & focusing on the market forces that drive efficiency in these countries.

📅26 - 28 Mar 2026
📍Oxford, UK

⏰Submission deadline: 20 Oct
cepr.org/events/pedl-...

Are you a researcher who'd like to learn more about developing & implementing innovative & policy-relevant randomised evaluations?

Join the CSAE's @muhammadmeki.bsky.social for a @j-pal.bsky.social webinar.

📆20 August, 2 - 3 pm GMT.
Register👇 uct-za.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@odid-qeh.bsky.social

🆕 Unlocking investment in small firms through performance-linked financial contracts

Today on VoxDev, Muhammad Meki (@odid-qeh.bsky.social) discusses the impact of performance-linked contracts on small firms in Kenya and Pakistan: voxdev.org/topic/firms/...

Equity-like contracts improve small firm investment in Kenya & Pakistan

CSAE's @muhammadmeki.bsky.social discusses work on microfinance in this @voxdev.bsky.social article.
voxdev.org/topic/firms/...

🔗CSAE projects
🔸 www.csae.ox.ac.uk/asset-based-...
🔸 www.csae.ox.ac.uk/microequity-...
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Is microfinance too ‘micro’? Can larger financial products generate sustained improvements in microenterprise performance?

Check out @muhammadmeki.bsky.social's project, with Akhuwat in Pakistan, exploring the impact of asset-based microfinance contracts.
www.csae.ox.ac.uk/asset-based-...

Microequity for micro-distributors in Kenya

Explore @muhammadmeki.bsky.social's project investigating the impact of a productive asset (a 🚲) on micro-distributors, & exploring the impact of different contractual structures for repayment. @odid-qeh.bsky.social
www.csae.ox.ac.uk/microequity-...

📣🎉Applications are open for the CSAE Visiting Fellowships Scheme 2026.

The scheme supports African scholars pursuing a career in economics (with a doctorate). Candidates must apply online by 31 May 2025 to be considered.

💻 www.csae.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fel...
📃 www.csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-visitin...

Based on field experiments in Pakistan & Kenya, this article for Ideas for India by @muhammadmeki.bsky.social finds that microfinance contract innovations for small-firm owners can stimulate more profitable investments & are beneficial for those w/ high risk aversion

Tomorrow, EBRD OCE's research seminar series features Oxford's @muhammadmeki.bsky.social

👉Link to Muhammad's paper: mmeki.com/wp-content/u...

⭐️OCE honor host of a great list of researchers - for more: loiaconofrancesco.com/oce-research...

@ralphdehaas.bsky.social

We are thrilled to share the program for the WEFIDEV-RFS-@cepr.org Conference on #Finance and #Development, with an RFS dual submission! Thanks everyone for contributing. See you in March at LSE!

Organized w @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social, Kim Fe Cramer, Nicola Limodio

www.wefidev.com/2025-confere...

Less than 2 weeks to register for the CSAE Conference 2025! #OxCSAE2025

⏰Deadline: 23 Feb
Register: cvent.me/grRQBN

The keynote 'Wealth is People' will be given by James Robinson, Nobel Prize winner in 2024, Professor at the University of Chicago, & Fellow at the University of Nigeria.

In #VoxDevLit issue 3 on #microfinance & accompanying #VoxDevTalk podcast, ODID’s @muhammadmeki.bsky.social and fellow Senior Editors Jing Cai and Simon Quinn review the latest evidence

The CSAE's @muhammadmeki.bsky.social (@odid-qeh.bsky.social) with @simonrquinn.bsky.social & Jing Cai discuss research on microfinance from #VoxDevLit issue 3 in the latest VoxDevTalks podcast👇 @talknormal.co.uk @voxdev.bsky.social

Looking to stay up to date with the literature on microfinance? Check out out updated VoxDevLit! #EconSky

Better financial contracts can unlock business growth in Kenya

Today on VoxDev, Francesco Cordaro, Marcel Fafchamps, Colin Mayer, Muhammad Meki, Simon Quinn and Kate Roll find that flexible financing boosted profits: voxdev.org/topic/financ...

🆕 What have we learned about microfinance?

Updated #VoxDevLit summarises the latest research w/ Jing Cai, Muhammad Meki, Simon Quinn, Erica Field, Cynthia Kinnan, Jonathan Morduch, Jonathan de Quidt & Farah Said: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/mi...

Today's podcast covers Issue 3: voxdev.org/topic/financ...