The Financial Crisis and Developing Nations

Friday, December 12, 2008

Speakers

Danny M. Leipziger

Vice President for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, The World Bank Group

Nancy Birdsall

President, Center for Global Development

Presider

Jerry Seib

Washington Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal

The global financial crisis has been difficult for the world’s most advanced economies, but its impact on developing nations may prove more severe. Join Nancy Birdsall and Danny Leipziger for a discussion of the political and economic consequences of the crisis on the world’s most vulnerable nations.

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