Savings: The Next Frontier in Financial Inclusion

Monday, December 16, 2013

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Mary Ellen Iskenderian

President and CEO, Women's World Banking

Steve Hollingworth

President and CEO, Freedom from Hunger

Presider

Isobel Coleman

Senior Fellow and Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative; Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program; Council on Foreign Relations

CFR Senior Fellow Isobel Coleman leads a conversation with Mary Ellen Iskenderian of Women's World Banking and Steve Hollingworth of Freedom from Hunger about how savings are blazing the next frontier in poverty eradication.

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