Preliminary Programme
Monday 29 August 2005
Registration: 8.00 to 9.00
Opening Ceremony: 9.00 to 10.45
Welcome and introductory remarks:
Shoji Nishimoto, Director, Bureau for Development Policies – BDP/UNDP, New York, USA
Carlos Lopes, United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Brazil
Glauco Arbix, President, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada – IPEA, Brazil
Patrus Ananias, Minister, Ministry for Social Development and Fight Against Hunger, Brazil
Carlos Eduardo Velez, Inter-American Development Bank – ID B/ BID, Washington, USA
Nanak Kakwani, Director/Chief Economist, International Poverty Centre, Brasilia, Brazil
Keynote Lecturer :
Peter Townsend, London School of Economics, The United Kingdom
Panel Discussion (11.15 – 12.30): The policy challenge of eliminating human poverty
Chair: Barbara Barungi, UNDP Regional Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa
Participants:
Kaushik Basu, Cornell University and MIT, USA
Miguel Szekely Pardo, Vice Minister of Prospective, Planning and Evaluation, Social Development Ministry, Mexico
Terry McKinley, Poverty Reduction Group - BDP/UNDP, New York
Session I (14.00 – 15.20) Perspectives on the Dimensions of Poverty Analysis
Session II (15.50 – 16.45): Perspectives on the Dimensions of Poverty Analysis (cont.)
Session III (16.45-18.00): Perspectives on the Dimensions of Poverty Analysis (cont.)
Tuesday 30 August 2005
Session IV (8.00-9.50): The Many Dimensions of Poverty Analysis: The Choice of Indicators
Session V (10.10-12.00): The Many Dimensions of Poverty Analysis: The Choice of Indicators (cont.)
Session VI (14.00-15.00): The Many Dimensions of Poverty Analysis: The Choice of a Unit of Analysis
Session VII (15.00-16.20): The Quantification of Multi-Dimensional Poverty
Session VIII (16.40-17.40): The Quantification of Multi-Dimensional Poverty (cont.)
Session IX (17.40-18.30): The Quantification of Multi-Dimensional Poverty (cont.)
Wednesday 31 August 2005
Session X (8.00 – 9.00): The Quantification of Multi-Dimensional Poverty (cont.)
Session XI (9.15 – 10.10): The Quantification of Multi-Dimensional Poverty (cont.)
Session XII (10.10 – 11.30): The Quantification of Multi-Dimensional Poverty (cont.)
Session XIII (11.45 –12.45): The Many Dimensions of Poverty: Country Experiences
Session XIV (14.15 –16.10): The Many Dimensions of Poverty: Country Experiences – Africa
Session XV (16.30 –18.40): The Many Dimensions of Poverty: Country Experiences – Latin America
Closing Session: 18.40 – 19.00
Chair: Eduardo Zepeda, International Poverty Centre, Brasilia, Brazil
Participants
Jacques Silber , Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Nanak Kakwani, Director/Chief Economist, International Poverty Centre, Brasilia, Brazil
