Getting Back to Business
Financial and Private Sector Development Forum 2010
World Bank Headquarters, Washington, D.C., March 2-3, 2010
The Financial and Private Sector Development Vice Presidency is pleased to announce FPD Forum 2010: Getting Back to Business. The forum will present an exciting blend of the latest thinking on crisis recovery and the "new normal" for job creation, private sector growth, and the financial sector.
The two-day forum will convene leaders and World Bank Group specialists in development, economics, and finance who will share their experiences from around the world. Clients of the World Bank and IFC -- senior government officials and private sector executives -- will be at the heart of the Forum participating as panelists and discussants, reflecting on what's important, what works, and why.
In conjunction with the forum, there will be an Investment Climate Research Conference updating donors and practitioners on the depth of the Bank Group’s research and data, how these are used around the world for development, and what the results are.
Confirmed Keynote Speaker
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| Niall Ferguson Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School. Author of acclaimed best seller The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. |
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Agenda
Download preliminary agenda (PDF, 122KB)
The forum will address these topics:
- Helping Firms Innovate: What, How, and When?
- How can the Private Sector take Base of the Pyramid Opportunities to Scale?
- International Standards for Bank Regulation and Failure Resolution - Implications for Clients
- Financial Literacy and Consumer Protection in Financial Services
- Policies for Industrialization in Low-Income Countries
- Social Investments - The Next Very Big Thing?
- State Ownership of Financial Institutions - Time to Exit?
- Catastrophe Insurance
- Job Creation and the Recovery
- Safe Financial Inclusion: Revisiting Access to Financial Services in light of the Crisis
- Restructuring and Insolvency - How Have Insolvency Regimes Responded in the Crisis and Where to From Here?
- Managing Climate Change Risk and Financing Climate Change Adaptation
Who Should Attend?
World Bank Group staff working on financial and private sector development issues at headquarters and in country offices.
World Bank Group staff can register