Fwd: "Inexcusable Absence" discussed at the InfoShop on April 5, 2007, at 12:00pm in J1-050

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Subject: "Inexcusable Absence" discussed at the InfoShop on April 5, 2007, at 12:00pm in J1-050
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                                            and
                   Human Development Network Vice Presidency, World Bank
             Invite you to a discussion featuring a recent publication from the
                               Center for Global Development
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            |                      |            Inexcusable Absence            |
            |   (Embedded image    |   Why 60 Million Girls Still Aren't in    |
            |    moved to file:    | School and What to Do about It by Maureen |
            |    pic02695.jpg)     |       Lewis and Marlaine E Lockheed       |
            |                      | Girls' education, indisputably crucial to |
            |                      | development,   has   received  a  lot  of |
            |                      | attention-but     surprisingly     little |
            |                      | hardheaded  analysis  to inform practical |
            |                      | policy solutions. In Inexcusable Absence, |
            |                      | Maureen   Lewis   and  Marlaine  Lockheed |
            |                      | propose  new  strategies for reaching the |
            |                      | 70 percent of out-of-school girls who are |
            |                      | "doubly     disadvantaged"    by    their |
            |                      | ethnicity,  language,  or  other factors. |
            |                      | The  book  will  be an important tool for |
            |                      | policymakers,   informing   interventions |
            |                      | that  can  make  a profound impact on the |
            |                      | lives  of  the  60  million out-of-school |
            |                      | girls.                                    |
            |                      |                                           |
            |                      |  Thursday, April 10, 2007 from 12:00pm -  |
            |                      |                  2:00pm                   |
            |                      |      World Bank J Building - J1-050       |
            |                      |            701 18th Street, NW            |
            |                      |                                           |
            |                      |     Contact: Jan-Marie Hopkins, HDN,      |
            |                      |  202-473-8071 or jhopkins@worldbank.org   |
            |                      |          for further information          |
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                                           Chair:
                                        Joy Phumaphi
            Vice President and Head of Human Development Network, The World Bank
            Prior  to  this,  Joy  Phumaphi  was  Assistant Director General for
            Family and Community Health at the World Health Organization and was
            the  Director  General's  Representative on Gender Equality. She was
            also Health Minister of Botswana.

                                        Presenters:
                                       Maureen Lewis
             Acting Chief Economist, Human Development Network, The World Bank.
            Prior  to  this,  Maureen  Lewis  was  Chief  Economist of the Human
            Development Network of the World Bank.

                                     Marlaine Lockheed
                       Visiting Fellow, Center for Global Development
            Prior  to  this  Marlaine  Lockheed was Education Sector Manager and
            Acting  Director  for  Education at the World Bank and head of WBI's
            Evaluation   Group.   She  currently  teaches  education  policy  at
            Princeton's  Woodrow  Wilson  School  of  International  and  Public
            Policy.

                                        Discussants:
                                       Maurya Buvenic
                              Gender Director, The World Bank
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