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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