Financial Exclusion and Over-Indebtedness: Challenges and Policy Responses
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Date: Tuesday 8 March 2010
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Venue: ESRI, Whitaker Square, Sir John Rogerson's Quay
The Social Inclusion Division, Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs along with the Economic and Social Research Institute, The Policy Institute and the Social Finance Foundation held a conference on financial exclusion and over-indebtedness: challenges and policy responses.
Programme
The aims of the conference were to examine recent findings from national research on financial exclusion and over-indebtedness in Ireland and to examine policy responses to these issues based on European and national experience.
The conference will feature inputs from Irish and European experts and panel discussions with key stakeholder on the way forward.
Professor James Wickham, Chair of the Policy Institute will chair Session 2: Policy Responses to Promoting Financial Inclusion.
Presentation
Georges Gloukoviezoff, a former Visiting Research Fellow at the Policy Institute, presented a summary of his forthcoming report titled “Understanding and Combating Financial Exclusion and Overindebtedness in Ireland: A European Perspective”.