Impact change. That will be focused on the rise of technologies, this is about 90 minutes. I would like to welcome you to our forum on Financial Inclusion, we are web casting this event live, so wed like to welcome our viewers and also those of you who have tuned in via cspan for those of you who are wishing to post comments during the forum, we have set up a feed at financialinclusion, you are willing to make any comments you would like. There are nearly 2 billion adults globally, who do not have Bank Accounts. This makes it difficult to Access Financial services, pay bills or transfer money to relatives. In those situations, its difficult to be an entrepreneur. The good news is that many nations have made commitments to expanding Financial Services to the poor, they understand that Financial Inclusion is vital to economic development. They are developing Financial Inclusion policies and implem t implementing a new framework that encourages inclusion, today, robin lewis and myself are
I think its true that in general private sector firms really do care about reputational risk, dont want to deal with people that are involved with illicit finance. I think its also true that the work of tfi over this last set of years and sort of putting up the mirror and reminding people of this proposition and reminding them that theyre watching and that there are consequences to people who are insufficiently attentive to this set of things has been critically important in both reminding folks and sort of heightening their sensitivities because its not every private sector actor, certainly not globally. Certainly not in geographies, you know, near and far, that have over time given this sufficient attention. I think its the combination of it being in the economic interest of private sector entities and the work that tfi, david, and stewart, their colleagues, and others in the u. S. Government have done to help keep that kind of in the top of consciousness consistently that has been t
Attractiveness of the dollar as compared to other things, its also true that a lot of these regimes are pretty multilateral, so in those circumstances, it doesnt really create competitive advantages to the dollar. I would say more importantly, the basic dimensions of why the dollar is the worlds reserve currency, at least as far as my eye can see, are unlikely to go away, and in particular, since its a comparative judgment, because Something Else would have to replace the dollar as the worlds reserve currency, as far as my eye can see, i couldnt see Something Else being a meaningful competitor. You know, not what i would call short and intermediate time horizons. You think about the alternatives, the euro, as someone said earlier, steve hadley or tom donovan, it wasnt 18 months ago we were worried about whether the euro was done. I think lots of questions about contract sanctity and other kinds of things, obviously currency is doing well relative to its history and certainly to chinas
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