Moving Out of Poverty (Volume 1): Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility on October 3 at 11:00am in JB1-080

InfoShop & The Poverty Reduction Group (PRMPR)

Invite you to a book launch featuring a recent publication
MOVING OUT OF POVERTY
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility (Volume 1)
Edited by Deepa Narayan , Patti Petesch

This book makes a case for focusing on mobility to better understand the
barriers to reducing poverty. Leading development practitioners and scholars
from the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology
critically examine the literature from their disciplines and contribute new
frameworks and evidence from their own works.

While covering a vast body of conceptual and empirical knowledge about economic
and social mobility, the authors take the reader on compelling journeys of
multigenerational accounts of mobility in two villages in Kanartaka, India,
three favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the life of a street child in Burkina
Faso, and much more.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
World Bank J Building, JB1-080
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org

Chair:
Luca Barbone
Sector Director, Poverty Reduction Group, World Bank

Introductory Remarks:
Deepa Narayan
Senior Advisor, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank

Patti Petesch
Consultant, Poverty Reduction Group, World Bank

Keynote Address:
"Democracy and Mobility"
Charles Tilly
Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University

Discussants:
Steen Lau Jorgensen
Sector Director, Social Development Department, World Bank

Vijayendra Rao
Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank

The Moving Out of Poverty series, launched in 2007, is under the editorial
direction of Deepa Narayan, Senior Advisor of the World Bank and former director
of the Voices of the Poor series. Future volumes will feature the results of new
comparative research across more than 500 communities in 17 countries to
understand how and why people move out of poverty.

For more information or to order the report, please visit:
http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=6361596
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