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

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| | MOVING OUT OF POVERTY |
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| ) | 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. |
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| | 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. |
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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

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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