navigation search consortium on financial services and poverty type private research organization headquarters chicago il key people robert m. townsend juliano assuncao abhijit banerjee francisco buera douglas diamond weerachart kilenthong gabriel de abreu madeira roberto rigobon kenneth singleton tavneet suri christopher udry christopher woodruff website http www.cfsp.org the consortium on financial systems and poverty cfsp is a private economic research consortium dedicated to studying the interaction of financial systems and poverty using a variety of economic approaches in a range of developing countries . the cfsp was established in 2009 by a grant to the university of chicago from the bill and melinda gates foundation 1 with robert m. townsend mit as principal investigator and economists juliano assuncao puc rio abhijit banerjee mit francisco buera ucla douglas diamond booth school of business weerachart kilenthong university of the thai chamber of commerce gabriel de abreu madeira university of s o paulo roberto rigobon mit sloan school of management kenneth singleton stanford tavneet suri mit christopher udry yale christopher woodruff ucsd as members . 2 the cfsp shares members with several other organizations that work in development economics including the abdul latif jameel poverty action lab the financial access initiative and innovations for poverty action . in contrast to these organizations however which tend to focus on rigorous randomized evaluations to generate policy recommendations 3 4 5 the cfsp attempts to connect traditional approaches in developmental economics to a wider range of approaches and models including general equilibrium models applied to both macro and regional financial systems . 6 references edit http www.gatesfoundation.org grants 2009 pages university of chicago opp51935.aspx http www.cfsp.org about members http www.povertyactionlab.org methodology http financialaccess.org research http poverty action.org about mission http www.cfsp.org about about consortium cfsp vision statement external links edit consortium on financial systems and poverty 1 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title consortium on financial systems and poverty & oldid 578803005 categories university of chicagoeconomics organizationsthink tanks established in 2009hidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 26 october 2013 at 09 59 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view