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She has a background in economics and agricultural economics and worked
in development organisations for eight years before joining academia. She
investigates the means through which social and cultural factors influence
the economy and markets, especially their embeddedness in social relations.
She has researched and written extensively in the field of microfinance and
financial access, analysing their gender dimensions, the role of informal
financial services and the impact of interventions on poverty.
Michael King is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Trinity
College Dublin and co-founder of Trinity’s Impact Evaluation Unit (TIME),
which conducts a range of impact evaluations in developing countries. His
research interests focus on the microeconomics of development and he
specialises in financial inclusion and financial sector development.
Yihang Li is a PhD student in Economics at the University of Bath
His research focuses on incentive theory.
Silvia Storchi is a PhD student at the University of Bath. Her research explores
the concept of financial capability and investigates how and to what extent
the ways in which poor people engage with financial and economic resources
can improve their wellbeing.
Radha Upadhyaya is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Development
Studies, University of Nairobi, where she teaches research philosophy and
research methods (both quantitative and qualitative). She is a development
economist and has been involved in policy reform and in the restructuring
of a failed Kenyan bank, and has also served on the board of the Institute of
Economic Affairs.
Sunčica Vujić is an Associate Professor of Econometrics at the University
of Antwerp and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath.
Her research interests are in the field of applied microeconometrics and
labour economics, with a focus on education, crime, health, gender, poverty
and inequality. Her research on empirical development economics focuses
on financial capability and financial inclusion, and the impact of financial
services on livelihoods of low-income individuals and households, and their
gender dimensions.
Christopher B. Yenkey is an Assistant Professor of Organizations and Strategy
at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His research extends
organisation theory into the study of market development.