Mr. Issouf Soumaré and a consortium of international researcher has received an award of £ 2.07 million ($ 3.84 million) from "DFID - ESRC Growth Research Program (DEGRP) Call 3 (2015-2016)" for their research project on the development of inclusive finance in African LICs. The project launched on May 30, 2016 at the biannual meeting of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), a Pan-African research organization based in Nairobi, Kenya.