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NOVEMBER 18
8h30 – 09h30 Credentials and welcome coffee
09h30 – 10h Opening session

10h – 12h30

WHAT DOES A WORLD WITHOUT POVERTY MEAN?

Does ending poverty mean overcoming a monetary line? Does it mean to provide a minimum level of well-being? What is the role of the concepts of multidimensional and relative poverty in this discussion?

James Foster, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, George Washington University

Murray Leibbrandt, Professor of Economics, University of Cape Town

Selim Jahan, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP

Coordinator: Deborah Wetzel, World Bank

12h30 – 14h30

Lunch

14h30 – 17h

OVERCOMING EXTREME POVERTY – THE BRAZILIAN EXPERIENCE

Presentation of the Brazilian experience in terms of formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Brazil without Extreme Poverty Plan and its main results, followed by critical evaluation from the commentators.

Speaker

Tereza Campello, Minister of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger, Brazil

Commentators

Margaret Grosh, Lead Economist for Human Development in the Latin American and Caribbean Region, World Bank

Nora Lustig, Professor of Latin American Economics, Tulane University

Emir Sader, Professor at Rio de Janeiro State University

Coordinator: Jorge Chediek, UNDP

17h – 18h Cocktail

NOVEMBER 19
09h30 – 10h Welcome coffee

10h – 12h30

IS A WORLD WITHOUT POVERTY POSSIBLE?

Ending extreme poverty within a generation.

Kaushik Basu, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, World Bank

Magdy Martínez-Solimán, Director of the Bureau for Policy and Program Support, UNDP

Sergei Soares, President of the Brazilian Institute for Applied Economic Research

Coordinator: Tiago Falcão, Brazilian Ministry of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger

12h30 – 14h30 Lunch

14h30 – 17h

A POLICY AGENDA BEYOND THE EXTREME POVERTY

Considering poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon, what is the public policies agenda in order to meet the new and sophisticated demands of those who came out of extreme poverty?

Ana Revenga, Senior Director of the Poverty Global Practice, World Bank

Laís Abramo, ILO Brazil country Director

Francisco Menezes, IBASE/Action Aid

Marcelo Neri, Minister of Strategic Affairs, Brazil

Coordinator: Romulo Paes, RIO+ Centre/UNDP

17h – 18h Closing session
REALIZAÇÃO