i181 Technology and Poverty

Spring 2011

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West Coast launch of 2010 Human Development Report at UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley will host the West Coast launch of the 2010 Human Development Report (HDR) on Wednesday, February 9th at 2:30PM. Please join us!

The HDR is the annual report of the U.N. Development Program; it tracks countries’ progress toward poverty alleviation and income equality. The 2010 Report introduces the inequality-adjusted Human Development Index, as well as multi-dimensional measures of poverty and gender inequality.

Speakers:

Francisco Rodriguez, Economist, UNDP
Pranab Bardhan, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley
Edward Miguel, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley

Event details:

February 9th, 2011
2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall
Sponsored by the Center of Evaluation for Global Action

Please register at http://cega.berkeley.edu/hdr2010

For
more information on the report, please visit http://hdr.undp.org/en/mediacentre/

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