20121015_EDD12_Full_Agenda

HLPs | INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ERADICATION OF POVERTY
11:00 – 12:30 Confronting Inequality
Auditorium C
#Inequality
#EDD12
Joyce Banda, President of the Republic of Malawi
Dr Thomas Boni Yayi, President of the Republic of Benin,
Acting Chairperson of the African Union
Paul Engel, Director, European Centre for Development Policy
Management
Charles Goerens, Member of the Development Committee, Rapporteur
on ‘Agenda for Change’, European Parliament
Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Secretary General of the African, Caribbean
and Pacific Group of States
Andris Piebalgs, European Commissioner for Development
This panel puts the word ‘inclusive’ under the spotlight, focussing specifically
on the challenge to EU development policy posed by inequality in developing
countries. There is growing evidence that persistent high inequality is detrimental
to poverty reduction, sustainable growth and political stability. Middleincome
countries such as China, India, Indonesia and Nigeria remain home to
over 70 % of the world’s poor and many less developed countries also have a
growing inequality problem. Is there a role for Europe in supporting countries
that want to tackle inequality? What implications would this have for aid allocation
criteria and for green growth strategies?
Moderated by Simon Maxwell, Senior Research Associate, Overseas
Development Institute
Organised by German Development Institute – DIE, European Centre for Development
Policy Management – ECDPM, European ThinkTank Group, Fundación para las
Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior – FRIDE, Overseas Development
Institute – ODI
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