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Ten Years of Poverty: What Have We Learned since 2009 and What Should We Do 2010-2020?
The Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI), University of Manchester
This event will bring together leading poverty researchers and actors for poverty reduction to:
- review the ‘state of the art' in poverty reduction;
- showcase CPRC's key research findings on chronic poverty;
- set the research and policy agenda on poverty research for the next 10 years (2010-2020).
The conference will take place just two weeks before the UN General Assembly convenes to review progress towards achieving the MDGs.
Among the keynote speakers are:
- Prof Fazle Abed (BRAC)
- Prof Angus Deaton (Princeton University)
- Prof Ravi Kanbur (Cornell University)
- Prof Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University and University of Manchester)
- Prof Michael Woolcock (The World Bank and University of Manchester)