and the
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 |
| pic01340.jpg) | |
| | by Maureen A. Lewis and Marlaine E. |
| | Lockheed |
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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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| | Thursday, June 21, 2007 from 12:00pm - |
| | 2:00pm |
| | World Bank J Building - J1-050 |
| | 701 18th Street, NW |
| | |
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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 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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