CID Graduate Student Lunch Seminar
"Moving Out of Poverty: Understanding Freedom, Democracy and Growth from the Bottom-Up"
Speaker: Soumya Kapoor, Associate, Center for International Development and Consultant, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network, the World Bank
Friday, 28
September 2007
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lunch served
Perkins Room, 4th Floor,
Rubenstein
Building, KSG
Soumya Kapoor is Consultant with the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network of the World Bank. She is currently working on a book with Dr. Deepa Narayan at the World Bank and Prof. Lant Pritchett at KSG summarizing findings from a global study entitled Moving Out of Poverty: Understanding Freedom, Democracy and Growth from the Bottom Up. A follow up study to Voices of the Poor, the current research explores how people move out of poverty permanently from the perspectives of men and women who have experienced it first-hand.
Ms. Kapoor has been working extensively on the study for the past four years, coordinating in particular the research in the South Asia region, including fieldwork and analysis of data in over 300 communities across India. Her areas of interest include participatory development and research, finance and linking these two for poverty reduction. Prior to the World Bank, Ms. Kapoor worked as a Corporate and Investment Banker with a leading bank in India, and as a credit analyst with Moodys.
Among her recent papers (all under publication) are: "Moving Up and Out of Poverty: Countries, Communities, and Individuals" (with Deepa Narayan and Lant Pritchett); "Beyond Ideologies: Creating Wealth for the Poor" (with Deepa Narayan); "People’s Organizations and Moving out of Poverty: Rural Andhra Pradesh" (with Deepa Narayan and Giovanna Prennushi); and "Caste Discrimination and Moving out of Poverty: Evidence from Rural Uttar Pradesh" (with Deepa Narayan and others).
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