Duncan Green

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From Poverty to Power

Friday, Nov. 14, 2008
From Poverty to Power
Co-sponsored with Center for International Development
Duncan Green (Head of Research, Oxfam GB)
Lant Pritchett (Professor of the Practice of International Development, HKS)
3:00 – 4:30 pm, Fainsod Room, Littauer 324, HKS

Duncan Green discusses his new book, From Poverty to Power, which proposes realistic solutions to the human and economic costs of global inequality and poverty. A new take on development for the 21st century, he argues for active citizenship, effective states, and a redistribution of the power within markets to make economic growth work for poor people. Mr. Green will highlight the implications for international development NGOs and their approach to reducing poverty, with Lant Pritchett responding to these ideas and setting them in the context of the latest thinking in development economics.

Praise for From Poverty to Power 
“In telling us what can be achieved by ordinary people through organized action, this book generates hope even as it enhances understanding of what is involved in the removal of poverty. The world does need hope as well as the know-how, and we have reason to be grateful for what we get from this important study of a rich collection of collaborative social action.”
Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University

“Oxfam's great strength is that it channels the moral outrage that global poverty evokes into effective action based on solid research. FROM POVERTY TO POWER is a comprehensive look at development in this tradition.”
Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School

Duncan’s blog: http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/
Duncan Green is Head of Research at Oxfam GB (http://www.oxfam.org.uk/) and author of From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States can Change the World (Oxfam International, June 2008). He was previously a Senior Policy Adviser on Trade and Development at the Department for International Development (DFID), where he covered agricultural and non-agricultural trade in goods. He went to DFID on secondment from CAFOD, the Catholic aid agency for England and Wales, where he was a Policy Analyst on trade and globalization (www.cafod.org.uk/policy). Prior to going to DFID, he was also Head of Research and Engagement at the Just Pensions project on socially responsible investment (various papers on www.justpensions.org), an advisory board member of the Globalisation and Poverty Programme (www.gapresearch.org) and a board member of the Ethical Trading Initiative (www.ethicaltrade.org). He is the author of several books on Latin America including Silent Revolution: The Rise and Crisis of Market Economics in Latin America (2003, 2nd edition) and Faces of Latin America (2006, 3rd edition).

Lant Pritchett is Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. After receiving his PhD from MIT in economics in 1988, Dr. Pritchett joined the World Bank, holding a number of positions in Washington, Indonesia and India. At the World Bank, he participated in the preparation of a number of major reports, including World Development Report 1994, Better Health Systems for India’s Poor (2003), and Economic Growth in the 1990s: Learning from a Decade of Reform (2005). He serves as a consultant to Google.org, is a non-resident fellow of the Center for Global Development, and is a senior fellow of BREAD. He is co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics.