Beatriz Armendáriz

Beatriz Armendáriz de Aghion (born September 20, 1959 in Comitán de Domínguez ) is a Mexican economist whose research focus is generally in the field of development economics and specifically on the economic effects of microfinance .

Life

Beatriz Armendáriz grew up in Mexico . In 1984 she received her BA in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), where she worked as an assistant professor of microeconomics from 1981 to 1982 . From 1982 to 1984 she was a research fellow at the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI). In 1986 she completed her M.Phil. in Economics from the University of Cambridge . She then began studying at the Paris School of Economics , where she received a Ph.D. in economics with a dissertation Foreign Debt Negotiations: An Historical and Theoretical Analysis . She then worked as a research associate for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris until 1991 , but then switched to the position of lecturer at the London School of Economics (LSE) until 1996 , where she taught the course in International Economics. As part of her work at the LSE, she attended the Toulouse School of Economics as a visiting professor in 1995/96, the Faculty of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1997 to 1999 and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies from 1998 to 1999 at Harvard University . Armendáriz has so far spent her further academic career alternating between University College London and Harvard University, where she currently holds the positions of Senior Lecturer and Lecturer in Economics. Since 2003 she has lectured at Harvard University on the Latin American economy and on the subjects of poverty and development.

Armendáriz is also currently an Associate Fellow of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi), the Université libre de Bruxelles and a board member of Bank Grameen Credit Agricole. She is also one of the founders of Microfinance Enterprises AlSol and the Grameen Trust Chiapas, two microfinance institutions that have been providing financial services to low-wage earners in southern Mexico - especially women - since 1996. Armendáriz is also the founder of the Gender Equity Fund.

research

While Armendáriz's research in the 1990s was still dominated by the topic of international debt, it turned more and more to the area of microfinance towards the end of the 1990s . In 1998, at a meeting with Jonathan Morduch ( Princeton University ), the interest arose in writing a comprehensive book on the state of the art in microfinance, which was included in the 2005 edition of The Economics of Microfinance , which, for example, is compulsory literature at the University of Cambridge to get started with the topic of microfinance. The book was re-published in a second, expanded edition in 2010 and, with exercises, is directly geared towards use in the classroom. Armendáriz's research is currently focused specifically on the relationship between microfinance and gender balance. For example, several studies suggest that women might be “better debtors” because they have a higher repayment rate than men and a more productive use of microcredit. In this context, Armendáriz relies on her experiences and work in the microfinance institutes she (co) founded in southern Mexico.

Web links

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Beatriz Armendáriz ( Memento of December 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), University College London, February 2011 (English)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Beatriz Armendáriz ( Memento from December 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Harvard University, June 2008 (English)
3. ↑ Compulsory literature for the course "Credit and Microfinance" by Dr. Kumar Aniket, University of Cambridge (English) (PDF; 35 kB)