Volume 1, Issue 3: July 2003

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Plenary Session: Financing Microfinance for Poverty Reduction

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Plenary Session: Financing Microfinance for Poverty Reduction
Original transcription by Myka Reinsch

A panel discussion on the paper Financing Microfinance for Poverty Reduction, authored by David Gibbons and Jennifer Meehan, and chaired by Jaques Attali, President and Chairman, PlaNet Finance. Discussants were Luis Ernesto Derbez Bautista, Secretary of External Affairs (formerly Secretary of the Economy), Mexico, Normand Lauzon, UN Capital Development Fund, and Carlos Cuevas, The World Bank.

Financing Microfinance for Poverty Reduction

Remarks by Jennifer Meehan

Remarks by Luis Ernesto Derbez Bautista

Remarks by Normand Lauzon

Remarks by Carlos Cuevas

Remarks by David Gibbons

Questions and Answers for Plenary Panelists