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(May 17, 2007/ Bled, Slovenia)
CALD Program Officer, Carlo Religioso, arrived today in the
Slovenian resort town of Bled to attend the 9th Annual Bank
Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), a joint venture of
the World Bank and Slovenian government.
He received a support grant from
the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Slovenia to attend
the 9th ABCDE.
This annual program, which
started in 1998, is co-organized by the Paris-based World Bank.
This year’s theme: “Private Sector and Development”, includes
plenary sessions on financial inclusions, investment climate,
and the provision of the public services by non-state actors.
The event, which was held last year in Tokyo, Japan, attracted
about 400 participants from over 90 countries, representing the
academia, civil society, the private sector and policy makers.
Slovenian Prime Minister Janez
Jansa and his Minister of Finance Andrej Bajuk and World Bank’s
Senior Vice President Francois Bourgugnon were the major
speakers during the opening ceremony.
Mr. Religioso is the second CALD
Program Officer to attend an ABCDE event after Mr. Brian
Gonzales in 2005. |
