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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The Brookings Institution
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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