"The Persistence of Poverty" launched on Monday, April 28 at 12:30pm in J1-050

The World Bank Public Information Center and the Office of the Publisher

invite you to a presentation of an important Yale University Press publication
followed by a light lunch

The Persistence of Poverty
Why the Economics of the Well-Off Can't Help the Poor

In this important book, one of America's boldest and most original thinkers
charges that conventional explanations of poverty are mistaken, and that the
anti-poverty policies built upon them are doomed to fail. Using science,
history, fables, philosophical analysis, and common observation, Charles Karelis
engages us and takes us to a deeper grasp of the link between consumption and
satisfaction?and from there to a new explanation of what keeps poor people poor.
Above all, he shows how this fresh perspective can reinspire the campaign
against poverty.

Finalist for the 2007 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the Philosophy
category.

Monday, April 28, 2008
12:30 - 2:30 pm
World Bank J Building
Auditorium J1-050
701 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC

*RSVP REQUIRED* Please send an email to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Charles Karelis
Research Professor of Philosophy, The George Washington University
Formerly Professor of Philosophy at Williams College, Director of the Fund for
the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, and President of Colgate University.
Mr. Karelis lives in Washington, D.C.

DISCUSSED BY
Steven Pearlstein
Business Columnist, The Washington Post and
2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner
Mr. Pearlstein, who has been a television news reporter and congressional
staffer, began his newspaper career with reporting jobs in New Hampshire at the
Concord Monitor and Foster's Daily Democrat. He also launched a monthly magazine
of liberal opinion, The Boston Observer. Mr. Pearlstein was recently awarded
the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his "insightful columns that explore the nation's
complex economic ills with masterful clarity".

Daniel Hardy
Division Chief, IMF Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Mr. Hardy has worked on economic policy issues in a wide range of
industrialized, emerging market, and developing countries. His current research
interests include the political economy of regulation, and the linkage between
innovation and stability in the financial sector.
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