NATIONAL BANK OF SERBIA  Introductory speech at the presentation of the Inflation Report – August 2021 Dr Jorgovanka Tabaković, Governor  Belgrade, 18 August 2021  Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed members of the press, dear colleagues, Allow me to bid you welcome to the live presentation of the August Inflation Report after more than a year, with a sincere wish that in the coming period we continue to hold press conferences in this manner.
The odyssey took all of us – our Deputy Governors, Executive Directors and myself – to villages across the country – typically off-main road, away from urban influence, unbanked villages – to see and understand how grassroots institutions – self-help women’s groups, micro-finance institutions, non-government organizations, rural cooperatives, rural branches of regional and mainstream commercial banks-operate, and to listen first-hand to the hopes and aspirations  BIS central bankers’ speeches  9  of village India.