Beatriz Armendariz

MPhil, PhD
Associate Professor: Department of Economics, UCL
Research Fellow: Center for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi)

Research Interests

Development Economics
Microfinance
International Finance

Other professional activities

2010: Universidad de Boliva en La Paz. Keynote Speaker – Gender Equity in Microfinance.
2010: Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Conference on Microeconomics, Universidad, Colombia.
2010: St Andrew’s Economic Forum. Launching of Second Edition The Economics of Microfinance, MIT Press., and Round Table Participant on Microfinance. Focus: Africa.
2009: Presentation on Microfinance, Universidad Pontifica Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
2009 Grameen Crédit Agricole Microfinance Foundation. Field Trip to Dhaka, and Bogra. Microfinance, and Social Business. Danone Communities, and Eye Clinic, Bangladesh
2009 World Savings Bank Institute (WSBI). Conference Presentation: “Identifying Key Stylized Facts To Further Improve Financial Inclusion.” Santiago, Chile.
2009: Universidad Pontifica Católica de Chile, Conference on Microfinance, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
2008 World Economic Forum (WEF). Conference Presentation: “Women and Inclusive Growth”, Women’s Leaders Program. Davos, Switzerland.
2008 World Economic Forum (WEF). Conference Presentation: “Finance for All”. Keynote speaker and moderator. Cancún, Mexico.
2007 Charity Rating. Conference Presentation: “Microinsurance and Sustainable Development”. Stockholm, Sweden.
2007 United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Conference Presentation: “Empowering women through microfinance in Fragile States”. Helsinki, Finland.
1997 Grameen Trust Chiapas, A.C. Founder. Microfinance Non-Governmental Organization, Southern Mexico, Mexico.
1996 AlSol, AC. Microfinance Non-Governmental Organization, Southern Mexico, Mexico.

Educational Background

MPhil: Economics, University of Cambridge, UK
PhD: Foreign Debt Negotiations: An Historical and Theoretical Analysis, EHESS, Paris

Books & Edited Collections

Armendariz, B.& Morduch, J. (2010) The Economics of Microfinance, 2nd edition, London: MIT.
Armendariz, B. & Labie, M. (2010) Handbook of Microfinance, London: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd.

Articles & Book Chapters

2009 Microfinance Mission Drift?, joint with Ariane Szafarz, March 2009.
2008 Gender Empowerment in Microfinance, joint with Nigel Roome, June, 2008
2004 A New Growth Approach to Poverty Alleviation, joint with Philippe Aghion.
2003 Microfinance: Where do we stand? (with Jonathan Morduch) forthcoming in Charles Goodhart (ed.), Financial Development and Economic Growth: Explaining the Links, London: Macmillan/Palgrave.
2002 "Poverty and Development: A New Growth Perspective", joint with Philippe Aghion, 2002.
2002 "Poverty Reducing Credit Policies", joint with A. Rai and T. Sjostrom, July, 2002.
2000 Microfinance Beyond Group Lending (with Jonathan Morduch), The Economics of Transition, Vol. 8, No. 2: 401 - 420.
2000 Peer Group Formation In An Adverse Selection Model (with Christian Gollier), The Economic Journal, Vol. 110, No. 465 (July) : 632 – 643.
1999 On the Design of a Credit Agreement With Peer Monitoring, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 60 (November): 401 - 420.
1999 Development Banking, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 58 ( February).
1999 Debt Relief, High Growth and Stabilization in Mexico (with Patricia Armendariz de Hinestrosa), Journal of Development Economics, (September).
1999 The World Bank and the Analysis of the International Debt Crisis (With Francisco Ferreira), in J. Harris, J. Hunter, and C. Lewis (eds.) The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development, Routledge.
1993 The G-7's Joint and Several Blunder (with John Williamson), Princeton University Essays in International Finance, No. 189 (April 1993).
1999 Analytical Issues on LDC Debt: A Survey, The World Economy (July - August).
1999 El Precio de los bonos, las razones deuda-exportación y las moratorias en el servicio de la deuda exterior de un pais: El caso de México, El Trimestre Económico, Vol LX (1), Num. 237 (January - March).
1999 "Long-Term Capital Reflow Under Macroeconomic Stabilization in Latin America", Review d'économie politique, 101 (4), (July - August).
1999 International Debt: An Explanation of the Commercial Banks Lending Behavior After 1982, Journal of International Economics, Vol. 28 (February).