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PEGNet Conference 2011: "Poor Countries, Poor People, and the New Global Players"
"The Poverty Reduction, Equity, and Growth Network (PEGNet) conference 2011 on poor countries, poor people, and the new global players was held at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany, September 7 to 9, 2011.
The Conference provided a platform for high-level dialogue between development researchers, practitioners and policy-makers. Parallel-sessions based on invited and contributed papers and project presentations . These will be complemented by a debate, a roundtable discussion, and keynote speeches by renowned speakers from academia, economic policy and development practice. Speakers included Justin Yifu Lin (World Bank), John Page (Brookings Institution), and Nancy Qian (Yale University).
In addition, the PEGNet Best Practice Award for effective cooperation between research and practice was granted to Habib Benzian and his colleagues from Fit for School."
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