Muhammad Meki
@muhammadmeki.bsky.social
Development economics; researching finance & development @ox.ac.uk @odid-qeh.bsky.social
🆕 Microfinance: Where do we stand 20 years on from the Nobel Peace Prize? 📢 Today on Economics Unpacked w/ @simonrquinn.bsky.social (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social) & @muhammadmeki.bsky.social (@odid-qeh.bsky.social): www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISq2...
Microfinance: Where do we stand 20 years on from the Nobel Peace Prize?
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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-...
PEDL 15th Anniversary Conference
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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
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Building Better Research Webinar: Muhammad Meki . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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🆕 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/...
Unlocking investment in small firms through performance-linked financial contracts
Performance-linked contracts, increasingly enabled by financial technology, can better spur investment among small firms than rigid microcredit—especially for risk- and loss-averse business owners.
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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-... More ℹ️in🧵
Unlocking investment in small firms through performance-linked financial contracts
Performance-linked contracts, increasingly enabled by financial technology, can better spur investment among small firms than rigid microcredit—especially for risk- and loss-averse business owners.
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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-...
ASSET-BASED MICROFINANCE FOR MICROENTERPRISES IN PAKISTAN
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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-...
MICROEQUITY FOR MICRO-DISTRIBUTORS IN KENYA
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📣🎉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
Finance for small-firm growth: Towards flexibility and innovation
While microfinance contract innovations like repayment grace periods help small-firm owners, they can increase default rates for microfinance institutions. Based on field experiments in Pakistan and…
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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
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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...
WEFIDEV - 2025 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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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
VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 2y ago🆕 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...
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
VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 2y ago🆕 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...
Looking to stay up to date with the literature on microfinance? Check out out updated VoxDevLit! #EconSky
VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 2y ago🆕 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...
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...
Better financial contracts can unlock business growth in Kenya
Flexible financing for ‘last-mile’ distributors boosted profits across a food supply chain in Kenya.
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🆕 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...