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Financial inclusion to overcome exclusions

Bhanoji Rao

Social cohesion and national unity are mere words unless backed by government action that ensures decent income levels and assets such as housing for each and every Indian family. If financial inclusion could contribute sufficiently to help improving the well-being of the citizenry, we can then declare that we have achieved something in the direction of moving towards a developed society.

John Bryant, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Operation Hope and Vice-Chairman, U.S President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, Unites States, Speaks at OECD International Conference on Financial Education

Here is a link to the video from this presentation at the Hall of American States in Washington, DC. Click here.

U.S. Treasury Department and OECD Host International Conference on Financial Education in Nation's Capital to Take Financial Education to the Next Level on World Policy Stage

In New Role as Vice Chairman of the U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, Operation HOPE Founder John Hope Bryant Outlines Global "Silver Rights" Agenda During Address to Promote Financial Access for Underserved

LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - May 13, 2008) - Operation HOPE Founder and CEO John Hope Bryant, who serves as Vice Chair of the U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy (Council), furthered global "silver rights" during his address to participants at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) "International Conference on Financial Education" on May 7-8, 2008. In addition to his role as President's Council vice chair, Bryant was recently tapped to lead the Committee on the Underserved by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Council Chairman Charles Schwab.