Location: University of California’s Washington Center, 1608 Rhode Island Avenue, NW. Washington, DC

Please join UNDP Washington and SID-Washington for a Roundtable discussion on the progress of the Millennium

The Roundtable will address this question of “inclusive globalization” and the MDGs. What are the continuing challenges of globalization for developing countries in their efforts to reduce poverty? How can developing countries best address these challenges so that they can achieve the MDGs by 2015?

Keynote Speaker:

Hafiz Pasha, Assistant Secretary-General, UN; Director, UNDP’s Bureau for Asia and the Pacific; former finance minister in Pakistan

Commentators:

Johannes Linn, Executive Director, Wolfensohn Center at the Brookings Institution
Geeta Rao Gupta, President, International Center for Research on Women

Moderator:

David Yang, Senior Advisor & Coordinator of UNDP Washington Roundtable, Washington Office, UNDP

Please RSVP by Monday, July 9, by sending an email to wdc.events@undp.org

For more information, please visit http://www.sidw.org/midpoint-to-2015