Today’s forum has participants from diverse backgrounds, from the banking, microfinance, and telecommunication sectors, as well as donors and government agencies, setting the stage for a creative and fruitful working session. 2. There are about 4 billion unbanked people 1 in the world, which is more than twothirds of the population of low and middle-income countries.
For example, the initially quite high government budget deficits of almost 6% of GDP in 1992 were reduced completely and transformed into a slight surplus (1999: 1.0% of GDP). In Germany, reunification confronted fiscal policy with its most difficult task since the period of reconstruction following World War II.