"Inexcusable Absence" discussed at the InfoShop on June 21, 2007, at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop and the Human Development Network Vice Presidency, World Bank
Invite you to a discussion featuring a recent publication from the Center for
Global Development
Inexcusable Absence
Why 60 Million Girls Still Aren't in School and What to Do about It

by Maureen A. 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, June 21, 2007 from 12:00pm - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building - J1-050
701 18th Street, NW

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 A. Lewis
Acting Chief Economist, Human Development Network, The World Bank
Maureen Lewis is Acting Chief Economist for Human Development at the World Bank.
She was formerly a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development for two
years and prior to that managed a unit in the World Bank dedicated to economic
policy and human development research and programs in Eastern Europe and Central
Asia. Before joining the World Bank, she established and directed the
International Health and Demographic Policy Unit at the Urban Institute.

Marlaine E. 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:
Mayra Buvinic
Gender Director, The World Bank
Mayra Buvinic is Sector Director for Gender and Development, PREM Network at the
World Bank. Before joining the Bank in 2005, she worked at the Inter American
Development Bank and is founding member and past President of the International
Center for Research on Women.
Cynthia B. Lloyd
Senior Associate, The Population Council
Cynthia B. Lloyd is a senior associate with the Poverty, Gender, and Youth
program at the Population Council. Her fields of expertise include transitions
to adulthood, children's schooling, gender and population issues, and household
and family demography in developing countries. Lloyd has worked on these issues
extensively in Ghana, Egypt, Kenya, Pakistan, and other developing countries as
well as comparatively. Her recent research has concentrated on school quality in
developing countries and the relationship between school quality, school
attendance, and transitions to adulthood.

Harry Patrinos
Lead Education Economist, The World Bank
Harry Anthony Patrinos is Lead Education Economist at the World Bank. He
specializes in all areas of education, especially school-based management,
demand-side financing and public-private partnerships. He managed education
lending operations and analytical work programs in Argentina, Colombia and
Mexico, as well as a regional research project on the socioeconomic status of
Latin America?s Indigenous Peoples.
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