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Milford Bateman

Milford Bateman is a freelance consultant specializing in local economic development policy, particularly in relation to the Western Balkans. He has worked as a consultant for most of the major international development agencies and for several of the major international NGOs. He is also currently a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Juraj Dobrila at Pula, Croatia.

SPECIAL EVENT: Microfinance in the Time of Neoliberalism

5 July 2010 17:30-19:00 (GMT+01 (BST)) — Public event, Overseas Development Institute and online

Milford Bateman will present his new book which suggests that microfinance is actually a major poverty trap and that almost all of the main claims made on behalf of microfinance are myths. 

Speakers:
Milford Bateman — Senior Research Fellow, ODI
Ha-Joon Chang — Reader, Cambridge University
Mark Napier — Financial Inclusion Specialist

Chair:
Karen Ellis — Head of Business and Development Program, ODI

You can attend this conference online!
Just click here and sign up for the simulcast on the ODI website.

Works

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Why Doesn't Microfinance Work?
The Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism

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Over the last thirty years or so, microfinance has risen to become one of the most high-profile policies to address poverty and under-development in developing...
Milford Bateman

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