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The Symposium's Achievement:
Making the Business Case for Private Capital in Microfinance
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Geneva
Symposium Addresses Investing Private Capital in Microfinance:
Attracts Broad Private Sector Participation, by Ximena
Escobar de Nogales, Deputy Director, Centre for Applied
Studies in International Negotiations (CASIN)
On October 10 &11 2005 Geneva -a centre of major
international organisations and a global financial hub-
made the business case for micro and small business
finance, thus providing a lasting contribution to the
UN Year of Microcredit 2005.
The symposium showcased today's leading investment
vehicles and business models in micro & small business
finance and appealed to the financial community, from
institutional to "field" investors, to explore
this new asset class. Give us your feedback
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TWO DAYS OF FRUITFUL &
INSPIRING EXCHANGES
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The two-day Symposium was centred on full-assembly
roundtables, designed to provide input and debate on:
 The demand for private
capital in micro and small business finance;
Sources of private
capital in micro and small business finance;
Today's leading approaches and successful business models
for attracting capital to micro and small businesses;
Critical factors and enabling conditions for private
investment in micro and small business finance. Including
a lively debate on teh differnetiated roles of private
and public actors and resources.
The Symposium presented the leading microfinance investment
vehicles in two series of interactive workshops. This
allowed participants --private and public investors,
leading micro and small enterprise finance providers,
regulators, intermediaries, and entrepreneurs-- to network
and engage in small group discussions.
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The Geneva Symposium brought together leading individuals
from the financial community who can play (or already
play) an important role in providing, channelling, and
deploying private capital for micro and small business
finance. Participants included public, institutional,
and individual private investors, pension fund managers
and pension fund consultants, fund managers, bankers,
high-level social investors, microfinance operators
and intermediaries, rating agencies, enterprise managers,
public officials, and other actors engaged in microfinance.
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PROGRAMME
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PROMOTERS OF THE GENEVA CONFERENCE
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We would like to thank the following organisations
for their contributions in developing this Symposium.
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