Event Date: March 7, 2016 - 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Location: Social Sciences Building, 120 University Pvt., room 4004 (4th floor)

Presented by CIPS and the Fragile States Research Network.

Over the past two decades, global extreme poverty has decreased rapidly. According to the World Bank (WB), since 1990, the share of the world population living below the extreme poverty line of $1.25 per day has more than halved.  Against this backdrop, international development actors such as the United Nations or the WB, as well as some bilateral development agencies, have recently united around a goal of ‘ending’ extreme poverty by 2030. This goal has been defined either as complete eradication (United Nations, 2014) or as 3% of the world’s population (World Bank, 2014).  At the same time, the development policy debate is increasingly highlighting the importance of distributionally sensitive measures of growth and thus inequality. Mario Negre will discuss his recent paper which simulates global extreme poverty until 2030 under different scenarios for shared growth and thus quantifies how inclusive growth can help to achieve the goal of eradicating extreme poverty.

Mario Negre is a senior economist in the World Bank Development Research Group seconded by the German Development Institute. He has worked at the European Parliament, first as an adviser to the chairman of the Development Committee and then for all external relations committees. Since 2012, he has been a senior researcher at the German Development Institute. His fields of specialization are pro-poor growth, inclusiveness, inequality and poverty measurement, as well as development cooperation policy, particularly European. Mario holds a BSc in physics from the University of Barcelona, an MA in development policies from the University of Bremen, and a PhD in development economics from the Jawharlal Nehru University, India

Free. In English. Registration is not required but seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis.

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