The First International Seminar WWP was held on November 18 and 19, 2014, at the Royal Tulip Hotel in Brasilia. Brazilian authorities and experts from around the world were invited to discuss the anti-poverty policy agenda at the global level.
The first day of the seminar brought together James Foster, George Washington University, USA; Murray Leibbrandt, University of Cape Town, South Africa; and Selim Jaham, Director of the UNDP’s Human Development Report, in a panel on the concept of poverty. The Brazilian experience was the subject of a session attended by Tereza Campello, Brazil’s Minister of Social Development and Fight against Hunger; Margaret Grosh, World Bank’s chief economist of Human Development for Latin America and the Caribbean; Professor Nora Lustig, from Tulane University (USA); and Professor Emir Sader, from the State University of Rio de Janeiro.
The following day, Kaushik Basu, senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank; Madgy Martínez-Solimán, director of the UNDP’s Department for Development Policy; and Sergei Soares, president of the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), debated whether a world without poverty is, indeed, possible. To conclude the event, Ana Ravenga, director of Global Poverty Practice at the World Bank; Marcelo Neri, Minister of the SAE; Laís Abramo, ILO Brazil country Director; and Francisco Menezes, from IBASE / Action Aid, presented a series of public proposals for a scenario beyond extreme poverty.
Lecture by James Foster, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University, in the panel “What does a world without poverty mean?” during the 1st International WWP Seminar. The event was held on 18-19 November, 2014, in Brasília, Brazil. Brazilian government practitioners and experts from different countries met to discuss the current policy agenda concerned with fighting poverty throughout the world and to focus on Brazil´s experience in this area.