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Measuring Poverty: The State of the Art

Bristol, United Kingdom
22-23 January 2011

For free tickets please send an e-mail to: townsend-memorial@bristol.ac.uk

This free 1½ day memorial conference will examine the current state of the art of poverty measurement around the world. Many of the world’s leading researchers will explain the latest advances in poverty measurement methodology for policy purposes in their own countries and regions. Each session will include time for discussion.

Speakers will include:

• Aya Abe (National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan)
• Petra Böhnke
• Julio Boltvinik (El Colegio de México)
• Jonathan Bradshaw (University of York)
• Eldin Fahmy (University of Bristol)
• Madior Fall (INSEE, France & Afristat, Mali)
• David Gordon (University of Bristol)
• Björn Halleröd (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
• Daniel He-chiun Liou (Asia University, Taiwan)
• Ruth Levitas (University of Bristol)
• Brian Nolan (University College Dublin)
• Bryan Perry (Ministry of Social Development, New Zealand)
• Veli-Matti Ritakallio (University of Turku, Finland)
• Pedro Sáinz (UN Expert Group on Poverty Statistics, Rio Group, Brazil)
• Melissa Wong (University of NSW, Australia)

This conference is being funded by the ESRC as part of a Large Grant on Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK.

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