MIT Sloan
Executive Education Faculty
Tavneet Suri
Assistant Professor
Tavneet Suri is a development economist who studies the evolution of markets and various market failures in the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa. Her main areas of focus are agriculture and formal and informal financial access, such as the adoption of seed technologies in Kenya and the extent of informal risk-pooling mechanisms in rural Kenya... Read More»
Tavneet Suri is a development economist who studies the evolution of markets and various market failures in the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa. Her main areas of focus are agriculture and formal and informal financial access, such as the adoption of seed technologies in Kenya and the extent of informal risk-pooling mechanisms in rural Kenya. Suri's ongoing research includes understanding the adoption and impact of mobile money (M-PESA) in Kenya; the role of infrastructure in agricultural markets in Sierra Leone; the diffusion of improved coffee-farming practices through social networks in Rwanda; and the role of different types of formal and informal collateral in credit markets for assets in Kenya. She regularly spends time in the field, managing her various research projects and data collection activities.
Suri is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); an affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR); and co-director of the Agriculture Research Program at the International Growth Center. Close«
Website: http://www.mit.edu/~tavneet/
Group(s):
Applied Economics
General Expertise:
Africa; Applied economics; Applied microeconomics; Developing countries; Developing countries
economics; Econometrics; Economics
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Contact Information:
Office: E62-517
Tel: (617) 253-7159
Fax:
Email: tavneet@mit.edu
Support Staff:
Name: Rose Ziv Carpenter
Tel: (617) 253-9746
Email: roseziv@mit.edu
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Reaching the Poor: Mobile Banking and Financial Inclusion
In a recent Slate article, Jamie Zimmerman and Sascha Meinrath lament the exclusion of the poor from Kenyas much-touted expansion of mobile money,... more
MIT Sloans Tavneet Suri Shows How M-PESA, a Cell Phone-ased Payment System, is Helping Kenyans
As the developed world begins its recovery from the global economic meltdown, the financial architecture in parts of the developing world is being... more
Best Prof: Tavneet Suri
n Fact: I am fluent in English; Punjabi (a language indigenes to the region in the Indian sub-continent that straddles the border between India and... more
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