POSTPONED and a new date will be announced shortly - "Inexcusable Absence" discussed at the InfoShop

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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 |
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| | 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. |
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| | 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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