Matthew Bishop
Business Editor, The Economist
London, U.K.
Advisor for the International Year of Microcredit 2005

"Affordable financial services are the ladder on which poor people can climb out of their poverty. Helping to make affordable finance, from bank accounts and insurance to loans, available to everyone, however poor, is what the International Year of Microcredit is all about."

Matthew Bishop is The Economist's Business Editor, based in London. Until September 2002 he served as New York Bureau Chief, covering US business and finance. Matthew has also served as Economics Correspondent in the London bureau, writing about the world's economies and financial markets. He has appeared on CNBC, CNNfn and BBC television and radio, and is the author of Essential Economics, a layman's guide to economics.

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