Financial and Private Sector Development Forum 2007
Finance and Markets for All: What, Why, When, and How?
World Bank Headquarters, Washington, D.C., April 25-26, 2007
Well-functioning finance markets and a robust private sector play critical roles in increasing productivity and growth, and spreading equality of opportunity.
This year's Financial and Private Sector Development Forum offered an opportunity for World Bank Group staff, developing country clients, and the donor community to discuss key challenges facing clients.
Sessions in the Forum addressed such questions as:
- What will trigger the next financial crisis?
- Where are the best practices in small and medium enterprise (SME) banking?
- How to apply corporate governance principles to financial institutions?
- What lessons to draw from financial sector and business environment diagnostics?
- What are the business opportunities in markets at the bottom of the economic pyramid?
- What is the importance of new delivery technologies to achieve universal access to finance?
- What are the best strategies to curb money-laundering?
- How will knowledge be stored, transmitted, and used in the future and what does this mean for setting rules of the game for the private sector?
Forum material
Speakers and presentations Video: New delivery technologies for financial services Video: Egypt case study on financial sector reform Photo gallery Program at a glance (PDF, 89KB) Full program agenda and bios (PDF, 940KB)
