Global Assets Project
The Global Assets Project’s mission is to advance public policies that build savings and assets for poor, low- and moderate-income persons -- tackling poverty and financial exclusion -- around the world. The Project also aims to serve as a bridge across the key elements of microfinance, financial education, social policy, and commercial financial services. In the future, these seemingly diverse areas will be much more integrated than they are today. The Global Assets Project will work to inform and stimulate innovations to achieve this integration. For example, the Global Assets Project recently:
- Created The Global Assets Resource Center, a key component of the Project's newly launched website, www.GlobalAssetsProject.org. The site services as a clearinghouse of information on asset building activities worldwide. These activities are currently taking place in the public, private, and non-profit sectors, ranging from microfinance providers and NGOS, to commercial financial institutions and private enterprise, to research institutes and think tanks, to local and national governments, to multilateral organizations.
- Hosted the first Global Symposium on Savings, Assets and Financial Inclusion, in Singapore from June 25-27, 2007. The Symposium, sponsored by Citi Foundation, convened 100 leading experts, policymakers, and practitioners in the fields of asset building and financial services from developing and developed countries to discuss ways to increase savings and asset building around the world.
