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The World Bank's Development Research Group
cordially invite you to a book launch and panel discussion featuring a new World
Bank report
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| | Finance for All? |
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| pic01679.jpg) | This policy research report is a |
| | wide-ranging review of research focusing |
| | on access to finance, its measurement, |
| | determinants and impact. It presents |
| | indicators to measure financial access and |
| | evaluates the impact of access on growth, |
| | equity and poverty reduction, drawing on |
| | research utilizing data at both the firm |
| | and household level. It also discusses the |
| | role of governments in advancing financial |
| | inclusion. |
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| | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 |
| | 10:30 am |
| | World Bank J Building, J1- 050 |
| | 701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and |
| | Pennsylvania Ave. |
| | Refreshments will be served following the |
| | event |
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CHAIR
Giovanni Majnoni
Executive Director, World Bank
Mr. Majnoni has served as an Executive Director for Albania, Greece,
Italy, Malta, Portugal, S. Marino, and Timor Leste since November
2006. He has been with the institution since 1998, conducting
financial sector work in East Europe, Latin America, and Asia and
leading several joint World Bank-IMF missions. From 1982 to 1998, he
worked at the Bank of Italy, where he was Manager in the Supervision
Department and Head of the Financial Market Office in the Research
Department.
SPEAKERS
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt
Senior Research Manager, Finance and Private Sector, Development
Research Group, World Bank
Ms. Demirgüç-Kunt, lead author of the report "Finance for All?
Policies and Pitfalls in Expanding Access", joined the World Bank in
1989. Since then, she has worked in various parts of the Bank on
external finance and domestic financial sector issues. Her research
interests include how financial development contributes to economic
growth and poverty reduction; and how best to improve the stability,
efficiency and reach of financial systems around the world.
Thorsten Beck
Senior Economist, Finance and Private Sector, Development Research
Group, World Bank
Mr. Beck is a co-author of the report. His recent research has
concentrated on access to financial services, including SME finance,
as well as the incentive-compatible design of financial safety nets.
DISCUSSANTS
Stijn Claessens
Assistant Director, Research Department, IMF
Mr. Claessens, now with the IMF and also Professor of International
Finance Policy at the University of Amsterdam, has previously worked
for fourteen years at the World Bank. His policy and research
interests are firm finance; corporate governance;
internationalization of financial services; and risk management.
Over his career, Mr. Claessens has provided policy advice to
emerging markets in Latin America and Asia and to transition
economies. A widely published researcher, he has edited several
books, including "A Reader in International Corporate Finance"
(2006).
Peer Stein
Manager, Financial Infrastructure & Institution Building, Global
Financial Markets Department, IFC
As business line leader for access to finance, Mr. Stein oversees
and supports IFC?s technical assistance and advisory services in
financial markets world-wide, including SME banking, housing
finance, microfinance, leasing, securities markets and energy
efficiency finance. He leads IFC?s and the World Bank?s advisory
work in financial infrastructure, specifically supporting the
development of credit bureaus to support greater access to finance
in developing and emerging markets as well as managing the World
Bank?s Payment Systems Development Group. Mr. Stein has been with
the IFC since 1996.
Augusto de la Torre
Chief Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank
Mr. de la Torre has worked for The World Bank since 1997. Before
becoming Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean, he has
been Senior Advisor in charge of the Financial Systems Department
and Senior Financial Sector Advisor for Latin America and the
Caribbean. He has published extensively on a broad range of
macroeconomic and financial development topics. Mr. De la Torre
headed the Central Bank of Ecuador from 1993 to 1996. Before this,
he was an Economist with the International Monetary Fund and during
1991-1992 was the IMF?s Resident Representative in Venezuela.
Joong-Kyung Choi
Alternate Executive Director, World Bank
Mr. Choi, now an Alternate Executive Director for Australia,
Cambodia, Kiribati, Korea, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia,
New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and
Vanuatu, served as Executive Director from 2005 to 2007. Before
this, he served as Director General for the International Finance
Bureau of Korea's Ministry of Finance and Economy from 2003 to 2005,
after holding the post of Chief of Staff at the office of the Deputy
Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economy for two years.
Having joined the Ministry in 1980, Mr. Choi's key areas of
involvement were macro-economic and financial policies and
international finance at home and abroad.
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