Beatriz Armendariz

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Beatriz Armendariz A Lecturer In Economics
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Beatriz Armendariz
A Lecturer In Economics

• Beatriz Armendariz is a highly qualified
  individual, with vast amount of experience
  working as a Lecturer in several leading
  educational institutions. She is the Founding
  Member of Grameen Credit Agricole Microfinance
  Foundation, Paris and serves on its Board of
  Directors. She is also a Research Fellow and
  Member of the Scientific Committee for the Center
  for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi).
  Her current academic positions are Senior
  Lecturer in Economics at the University College
  London, UK (2010 to 2011), and Lecturer in
  Economics at Harvard University, USA (2010 to
  2011).

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Academic Background

• Beatriz Armendariz attended ITAM, Mexico to
  pursue her Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics
  (1984) and thereafter enrolled at the University
  of Cambridge, UK (1986) to complete her M. Phil
  in Economics. She also holds Ph.D in Economics
  from EHESS, Paris, France, with Dissertation on
  Foreign Debt Negotiations An Historical and
  Theoretical Analysis.

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Professional Experience

• Throughout her career, Beatriz Armendariz has
  held several prominent positions at different
  educational institutes. She served as Teaching
  Assistant at ITAM as Research Officer at INEGI
  (Mexico) as Visiting Scholar in Economics
  Department of MIT, Cambridge as Lecturer in
  Economics at London School of Economics as
  Visiting Professor at Toulouse School of
  Economics (France) as Lecturer in Economics at
  University College London, UK. From 2000 to 2002,
  she served as a Research Fellow at the Center for
  International Development, Harvard University,
  then as Senior Lecturer in Economics at
  University College London,UK.

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Beatriz Armendariz The Recipient Of Various
Grants And Awards

• Beatriz Armendariz is an exceedingly
  knowledgeable individual who has received several
  titles accolades. She has also earned praise
  and numerous awards in her lifetime. She was
  honored with research grants academic awards by
  Belgian and Mexican institutes. Beatriz
  Armendariz also likes to read books of writers
  belonging to different parts of the globe. She
  has also worked as a visiting professor at
  Brussels in Belgium and at Massachusetts
  Institute of Technology at Cambridge in USA. In
  2009, Beatriz Armendariz received Brains Back in
  Brussels research grant from the Government of
  Brussels, Belgium. She also won Raul Bailleres
  Academic Award given by ITAM Mexico, D.F.,
  Mexico (2006-2007).

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Publications

• Beatriz Armendariz co-authored The Economics of
  Microfinance, First Edition (2005) Second
  Edition (2010), with Jonathan Morduch. Her
  forthcoming books are The Handbook of
  Microfinance, with Marc Labie, and The Economics
  of Contemporary Latin American Economy, with
  Felipe Larrain. Currently, she is working on
  various field projects, most notably on
  Environmentally-friendly Rural Farming in
  Burundi, with Ephrem Niyongabo of Universite de
  Mons, Belgium. Some publications by Beatriz
  Armendariz are Gender Empowerment in
  Microfinance, joint with Nigel Roome Peer
  Group Formation in an Adverse Selection Model,
  with Christian Gollier, The Economic Journal
  Microfinance Beyond Group Lending, with
  Jonathan Morduch, The Economics of Transition
  and more.

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Co-Authored The Economics Of Microfinance, First
Edition (2005)

• Beatriz Armendariz has significantly contributed
  in a large number of publications. She
  co-authored The Economics of Microfinance, First
  Edition (2005), and Second Edition (2010), with
  Jonathan Morduch. Apart from this, along with
  Ariane Szafarz, she has made a significant
  contribution in the paper, Microfinance Mission
  Drift? This paper highlights the poorly
  understood phenomenon in microfinance which is
  often referred to as a mission drift, i.e. a
  tendency reviewed by several microfinance
  institutions to extend larger average loan sizes
  in the process of scaling up.

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Thank You