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ADB-ESCAP Joint Workshop on Mobilizing Domestic Finance for Development

Reassessment of Bank Finance and Debt Markets in Asia and the Pacific
UN Headquarters
Bangkok, Thailand
22-23 November 2001

Objectives

• Exchange views on financial sector development, in particular on how to reduce over-reliance on bank borrowing through the development of debt markets especially for small and medium sized businesses
• Discussions will focus on major issues on bank lending, bond market, microfinance, and small and medium enterprise finance

Expected Outputs

Discussion results will provide critical inputs to an ESCAP-ADB position paper which will be prepared soon after the Workshop, and to be presented to the UN High-Level Conference on Financing for Development on 18-23 March 2002 in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Workshop Participants

The participating countries in the seminar - India, Malaysia, the Republic of Korea, and Thailand - have been chosen on the basis of their varying levels of financial development.

View complete list of participants.

Resource Speakers

Experts from:

• the Asian Development Bank
• ADB Institute
• BIS Regional Office in Hong Kong, China
• the World Bank

Workshop Documents

• View Program, Papers and Presentations

Contacts

Yun-Hwan Kim
EDRC/ADB
yhkim@adb.org

Seok-Dong Wang
DRPAD/ESCAP
wang.unescap@un.org

Visit UN-ESCAP's Development Research and Policy Analysis Division (DRPAD