In addition, it is hard in the circumstances to be an entrepreneur when you are outside the foremost Financial System. It is difficult to gain access to capital or form a business when you lack basic Financial Services but the good news is that many nations have made commitments to expanding Financial Service services for the poor and they understand that it is vital to Economic Development and social inclusion. As a result, they are developing Financial Inclusion policies and implementing a new framework that encourages inclusion. Today, robin lewis, john and myself are wanting our third annual Brookings Square card metering progress on Financial Access and usage with the support of the bill we have embarked on a threeyear study of inclusion in 26 developing countries. The short summary is that weve seen progress on Financial Services in many places and there are efforts to help marginalized populations and this is happening through mobile money and digital Financial Services. As part
Thank you very much for your interesting perspectives of their. The next question relates to the us and this is the third year in which we have done this. Our project specifically looking at the set of countries that robin alluded to a few moments ago, but theres a significant challenge here in the us depending on how you measure with the tens of millions of people either excluded from or at the margins of the Financial System, so the reasonable question is to ask what can we learn. So, what can we learn now that we have this incredibly rich tapestry of solutions explored around the world with global effort to improve the ecosystem. How can you bring some of those Lessons Learned for inclusion in the us. I will start with camille, but perhaps diego you have some as well. Id be interested in hearing your answer to that question, diego. From my perspective there are three areas where we can learn from the rest of the world. First in the regulatory arena. I think whats interesting about t
For those of you who are wishing to post comments during the forum, we have set up a twitter feed at financialinclusion. So youre welcome to make any comments that you would like. So there are nearly two billion adults globally who do not have Bank Accounts. This makes it very difficult to Access Financial services, pay bills or transfer money to relatives. In addition, it is hard in those circumstances to be an entrepreneur when you are outside the formal Financial System. Its difficult to gain access to capital or form a business when you lack basic Financial Services. But the good news is that many nations have made commitments to expanding Financial Services for the poor. They understand the Financial Inclusion is vital to Economic Development and social inclusion. As a result they are developing Financial Inclusion policies and implementing a new frame works that encourage inclusion. So today robin lewis, john, and myself are launching our third annual brookings scorecard measurin
Jennifer im jennifer granholm. Tonight in the war room, so the thinking goes that responsible gun owners will support responsible gun safety laws. Today the president went to the heartland to make the responsible case for just that. Jennifer when you think about who buys the most guns you might think its hunters or tour get shooters or gun clubs, but some of the biggest gun consumers are actually city police. The nydps budget this year 4. 5 million. Not all of that goes to weapons but millions do. Not only does that improve gun makers bottom line it also gives them a very powerful marketing tool, the prestige that coming with arming officers. Gun companies have designed entire Marketing Campaigns around the idea that every day citizens can be just like cops if they have the same guns that cops do. Some ads even imply that if you have these guns you wont even need the police like this new spot for glock. [ dramatic music ] somebody picked the wrong girl. Jennifer now the lesson there se
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