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The Central Bank of Barbados in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank IDB) and the World Bank’s Office of the Chief Economist for the Caribbean Region will host the Eighth Workshop of the Latin American Finance Network (LFN). This is the first time this Workshop will be hosted in the Caribbean and will be held at The Crane Hotel, St. Philip on September 13-14, 2012.
The focus for this year’s Workshop will be on the changing face of global and regional finance. There will be several thematic sessions based on presented papers ranging from ‘The Effects on Credit Subsidies on Development’ to ‘The Impact of Formal Credit on Informal Households’. These papers and several more will see Presenters and Discussants from the International Monetary Fund, University of Cambridge, Brown University, World Bank, Central Bank of Barbados, World Bank and several other leading financial and academic institutions.
Participants will hear from the Barbados’ Minister of Finance, The Honourable Christopher Sinckler and Professor Avinash Persaud, Senior Fellow, London Business School and Chairman, Intelligence Capital Limited. This event attracts practitioners from the fields of banking and finance along with academic staff. Discussion promises to be rich and enlightening. Barbados welcomes participants to the inaugural hosting of the VIII Workshop of the LFN.