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| | Building Inclusive Financial Systems: |
| (Embedded image | A Framework for Financial Access |
| moved to file: | Michael Barr, Anjali Kumar, and Robert E. |
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| | Broad-based and inclusive financial |
| | systems can significantly aid financial |
| | development, reduce poverty, and expand |
| | economic opportunity in developing |
| | countries. Poor households and |
| | individuals often have difficulty |
| | obtaining financial services for a |
| | multitude of reasons, including |
| | transaction costs, perceived risk, |
| | inadequate legal and financial |
| | infrastructure, and information barriers. |
| | Yet many financial institutions have |
| | begun making profitable inroads into |
| | these underserved markets through the |
| | continuing expansion of financial access |
| | and microfinance. |
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| | Building Inclusive Financial Systems |
| | offers an indispensable guide for |
| | governments and the private sector to |
| | increase access effectively and |
| | responsibly. Panelists will share their |
| | experience and views on new directions in |
| | work in the area of financial access, |
| | building upon and extending themes in the |
| | book. |
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Presentation: 4:00-5.15 pm; Reception: 5.15 to 6.00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
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MODERATED BY
Elizabeth Littlefield
Director, World Bank and CEO of CGAP
Ms. Littlefield comes to CGAP from the investment bank JP Morgan,
where she was the Managing Director in charge of JP Morgan?s
Emerging Markets Capital Markets. As such, she was responsible for
Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, Central Asia, Middle East and
Africa until leaving to join CGAP.
PRESENTED BY
Anjali Kumar
Adviser, Financial and Private Sector Development VP, World Bank
Ms. Kumar is an Adviser in the Financial and Private Sector vice
presidency, currently leading a unit engaged in building world wide
indicators on financial access. Her previous responsibilities
included Lead Financial Economist, Latin American region and
Principal Economist, East Asian region. Her prior country
experience span the European region, the Middle East, South Asia and
Africa. She has been a consultant to the Ministry of Industry,
Government of India, and held a Fellowship at the Institute of
Economic Growth, Delhi.
Marilou Uy
Sector Director, Africa Finance and Private Sector Development
Department, World Bank
Ms. Uy is the Sector Director for the Africa Finance and Private
Sector Development Department at the World Bank. Previously, she
served as Director of the Financial Sector Operations and Policy
Department in the Financial Sector Vice-Presidency (FSE) as well as
Chair of the Financial Sector Board since September 2002. Ms. Uy has
worked on trade policy, investment climate, and financial sector
issues in various operational departments in Latin America, Middle
East, and South Asia.
Liliana Rojas-Soares
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Ms. Rojas-Soares is the Chair of the Latin American Shadow Financial
Regulatory Committee (CLAAF). She has served as Managing Director
and Chief Economist for Latin America at Deutsche Bank, as the
Principal Advisor in the Office of Chief Economist at the
Inter-American Development Bank, and as Deputy Chief of the Capital
Markets and Financial Studies Division of the Research Department at
the International Monetary Fund.
Peer Stein
Manager of Financial Infrastructure & Institution Building,
International Finance Corporation
Mr. Stein is overseeing and supporting 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. Further, he is leading 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.
Hanns-Martin Hagen
Vice President, KfW Bankengruppe
Mr. Hagen is Vice President of the unit for Financial and Private
Sector Development, Europe/Caucasus. Mr. Hagen is responsible for
the development of equity and debt instruments adapted to the needs
of microfinance institutions and local banks in developing and
transitions countries. Prior to his current position Mr. Hagen
served as Senior Project Manager in the Asia and Pacific Department
(1999-2002) which followed a posting as Capital Markets Analyst in
KfW's treasury department (1997-1999). Prior to joining KfW he
worked with Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt (Germany) and Duisburg
(Germany) where he received his training.
Michael Barr
Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Mr. Barr is a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
in Washington, D.C. He conducts large-scale empirical research on
low- and moderate-income households, including as the Principal
Investigator for the Detroit Area Household Financial Services Study
at the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan and as a
key researcher for the FDIC?s study of bank services for LMI
households. Mr. Barr previously served as Treasury Secretary Robert
E. Rubin?s Special Assistant, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Community Development Policy, and as Special Advisor to
President William J. Clinton.
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