Invitation: Launch of the WIDER study: "Impact of Globalization on the World's Poor" on May 16 from 3:30 to 5:00 pm at Brookings Institution

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Invite you to a discussion featuring a recent publication
Impact of Globalization on the World's Poor
by Carol Graham, Machico Nissanke, Erik Thorbecke and Nancy Birdsall

Globalization offers new opportunities for accelerating development and poverty
reduction, but also poses new challenges for policymakers. And there is much
concern about the distribution of benefits; in particular whether the poor gain
from globalization, and under what circumstances it may actually hurt them.

To meet this important agenda, World Institute for Development Economics
Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) has sought to provide a
framework upon which to build strategies for ?pro-poor globalization?. The
research is particularly focussed in understanding better the mechanisms through
which globalization ultimately affects poverty, evaluating how different poor
groups are affected in different ways by globalization (the rural versus urban
poor for example).

The speakers are the directors and authors of the WIDER Study on the Impact of
Globalization on the World?s Poor and will discuss the main findings of the
research in relation to current issues.

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Wednesday,May 16, 2007
3:30 p.m. ? 5:00 p.m.
Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
RSVP: Please call the Brookings office of Communications at 202-797-6105
Reception to Follow
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CHAIRPERSON

Carol Graham is Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings
Institution, where she co-directs the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics,
and Professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland.

SPEAKERS

Machico Nissanke is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London, UK. She previously worked at Birkbeck College,
University College London and the University of Oxford, and was also Research
Fellow of Nuffield College and the Overseas Development Institute.

Erik Thorbecke is the H.E. Babcock Professor of Economics Emeritus, Graduate
School Professor and former Director of the Program on Comparative Economic
Development at Cornell University, USA.

DISCUSSANT

Nancy Birdsall is the founding President of the Center of Global Development.
Prior to launching the Center, she was Senior Associate and Director of the
Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Earlier Nancy Birdsall was Executive Vice-President of the Inter-American
Development Bank.
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