5.06.2008 - 03:32pm ET

(CSRwire) STANFORD, Calif., May 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- What works to reduce poverty, what doesn’t and what you can do. Listen to speakers, who from their own experience, deal with the issues of energy, food, infrastructure, education and finance in the developing world and at home.

The SIEPR Policy Forum brings together students, academic researchers, business leaders and policy makers to discuss and analyze economic policy issues of the day. The Forums which occur twice a year look at different topics of importance and how they affect our economy. Join us on:

WHEN: Friday, May 9, 2008

WHERE: Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall, Stanford campus

TIME: 10:00am–5:00pm

TOPICS of INTEREST:

Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability
Biofuels and the World Food Crisis
Education and Poverty Reduction in India
Students Changing the World
Foreign Aid and World Poverty
Economic Tools for Reducing Poverty

Panelists and presenters include a host of poverty experts: Jeffery Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University and special advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; William Easterly, Professor of Economics, New York University, joint with Africa House, and Co-Director of NYU’s Development Research Institute; David Grusky, Professor of Sociology and director, Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University; Anjini Kochar, senior research scholar and India Program director at the Stanford Center for International Development (SCID); Johannes Linn, Senior Fellow and Executive Director, Wolfensohn Center for Development, The Brookings Institution; James Patell, Herbert Hoover Professor of Public and Private Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Scott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Agricultural Economics Association; Paul Gertler, Professor of Economics and Health Services, UC Berkeley; Hilary Hoynes, Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis. Also in attendance will be students from various student organizations dedicated to alleviating poverty.

The Policy Forum is sponsored by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), an independent, non-partisan economic research institute at Stanford University.

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