Presentations

Design for Savings
A session moderated by Jamie Zimmerman at the 2008 Boulder-Bergamo Forum on Access to Financial Services.
Speaker: Jamie M. Zimmerman

Global Savings, Assets and Financial Inclusion

Hanoi: Plenary presentation at the Asia Microfinance Forum. August 2008.
Speaker: Jamie M Zimmerman

Lessons from South Africa
Webinar hosted by Center for Financial Services Innovation (CSFI). April 2008.
Speaker: Seidman, Ellen; Financial Services and Education Project (FSEP)

Overcoming Barriers to Savings and Asset Building (video) Washington: Presentation at the World Bank, sponsored by the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, 23 January 2007.
Speakers: Sherraden, Michael, Ray Boshara, Kate McKee, Allyn Moushey, and Thierry van Bastelaer

Savings and Asset Development for the Poor in Developing Countries
Washington: Presentation at the World Bank, "Overcoming Barriers to Savings and Asset-Building for Poor People in Developing Countries." sponsored by the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, 23 January 2007
Speaker: Boshara, Ray

The Impact of Child Savings Accounts on Health and Educational Outcomes of Orphaned Children in Uganda
Washington: Presentation at USAID
Speaker: Ssewamala, Fred

Asset-based Social Policy: The Potential of Child Development Accounts
Seoul: Presentation to Korean Institute of Labor and Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, November 2006
Speaker: Sherraden, Michael

Building Assets: The Potential of Child Development Accounts
Hong Kong: Invited seminar, Chinese University of Hong Kong, November 2006
Speaker: Sherraden, Michael

Building Assets: The Potential of Child Development Accounts
Hong Kong: Plenary at Conference on Child Poverty, Government of Hong Kong, November 2006
Speaker: Sherraden, Michael

Children’s Savings Accounts
Caguas, Puerto Rico: Presentation at the Forum on Building Wealth for the Next Generation sponsored by Center for the New Economy and the New York Federal Reserve, 11 October 2005.
Speaker: Boshara, Ray

The U.S. Experience with Asset-Building Policies and Programs
Ottawa, Canada: Assets Roundtable sponsored by the Government of Canada: 19 June 2006.
Speaker: Boshara, Ray

The “Ownership Society” and Social Policy in the 2nd Bush Administration
Tokyo, Japan: Presentation at the Tokyo American Center, 14 January 2005.
Speaker: Boshara, Ray

Assets, poverty, and public policy
Sydney, Australia: Presentation at The Sydney Institute, 1 September 2005.
Speaker: Sherraden, Michael

Policies to Promote growth and economic development
Mexico City: Presentation at OECD Forum on Mexico: Policies to Promote Growth and Economic Development, 3 November 2004.
Speaker: Boshara, Ray

Assets— An Intergenerational Perspective
Quebec: Presentation for the Policy Research Initiative (Government of Canada), 8 December 2003.
Speaker: Ray Boshara

Financing strategies for learning and asset development
Bonn, Germany: International Policy Conference: A Systematic Approach to Co-financing Lifetime Learning, organized by the Organization for Economic Development (OECD) and the Ministry of Education and Research, 8-10 October 2003.
Authors: Boshara, Ray, Reid Cramer, and Leslie Parrish

Asset-Based Policy and the Child Trust Fund
Seminar organized by Prime Minister Tony Blair, 10 Downing, and speech at dinner hosted by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, 11 Downing, London, September 2002.
Speaker: Sherraden, Michael

Toward a Universal and Progressive Asset-Based Domestic Policy
Speech at the Meeting of the Labour Party, Brighton, UK, 2 October 2001
Speaker: Sherraden, Michael