8:30 – 9:00 AM: Breakfast and Registration
9:00 – 9:15 AM: Opening Remarks
- Forrest Maltzman, Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, GWU
- M. Ayhan Kose, Director, Development Prospects Group, World Bank
9:15 – 9:35 AM: Overview of Global Monitoring Report
- Philip Schellekens, Lead Author and Manager of the Global Monitoring Report, and Lead Economist in the Prospects Group, World Bank
9:35 – 10:30AM: Session 1: Depth of Poverty
- Stephen C. Smith, Director of the Institute for International Economic Policy, GWU
- Discussant: Francisco Ferreira, Senior Adviser, Development Research Group, World Bank
10:30 – 10:50AM: Break with a View
10:50 – 11:45AM: Session 2: Breadth of Poverty
- Sabina Alkire, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, GWU; and Director, Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
- Discussant: Joao Pedro Azevedo, Lead Economist, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank
11:45AM – 12:40PM: Session 3: Shared Prosperity
- Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva, co-Director of the World Development Report (WDR) 2017; Lead Economist, Poverty Global Practice, World Bank
- Discussant: Danny Leipziger, Professor of International Business, GWU
12:40 – 1:30PM : Wrap-up and Lunch
- James Foster, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, GWU; and External Advisor, Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016
