Capital Markets and the Crisis (Presentation)

The first session in the USAID Microenterprise Development office's mini-series on the impact of the current global financial crisis on microfinance institutions and their clients: "Capital Markets and the Crisis" took place at the offices of QED Group LLC in Washington, DC, on December 10, 2008, and simultaneously as a webinar in order to enable remote participation. Eliza Erikson of Calvert, Monica Brand of ACCION, John Wasielewski of USAID/ODC and Martin Holtmann of IFC discussed the effects the current financial crisis is having on capital markets, and the opportunities the situation might offer for the field to reassess its strategy.