We are here to discuss what is emerging from the G20 Financial Inclusion Action Plan to improve the livelihoods of the poor, and to support Micro Small and Medium Enterprises, the engines of economic growth and job creation – in much of the world, and not just in Africa.
Therefore, on 1 December 2005 the Governing Council decided to increase the key ECB interest rates by 25 basis points, after two and a half years of maintaining these rates at historically low levels.