Seminar Information
Trade and Gender Issues
Monday, May 7th, 6:00p.m.
Chair
Winnie Byanyima, Gender Group, UNDP
Speakers
Caren Grown, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
Toward a Feminist Economics of Trade (presentation)
Yana Rodgers, Rutgers University
Trade Policy Liberalization and Gender Equality in the Labor Market:
New Evidence for India (paper_1 paper_2) (presentation)
Ramya Vijaya, Richard Stockton College
Trade and Education Divergence: A gender Perspective (presentation) (paper)
Discussants
Darryl McLeod, Fordham University
Baybars Karacaovali, Fordham University
Previous Seminars
Women's Access to Financial Resources
Monday, April 30th, 6:00p.m
Chair
Selim Jahan, Poverty Group, UNDP
Speakers
Michelle Adato, IFPRI
Gender, Culture and Cash: The relevance of Sociocultural Context in
Conditional Cash Transfer Programs (presentation)
Jonathan Morduch, NYU
Gender Targeted Microfinance (presentation)
Nisreen Alami, UNIFEM
Gender Budgeting: What have we learned? (presentation)
Discussants
Gwendolyn Tedeschi, Fordham University
Rathin Roy, UNDP
Women's Health: Challenges and New Directions
Monday, March 19th, 6:00pm
Chair
Nancy Busch, Dean GSAS, Fordham University
Speakers
Deborah Balk, CUNY - “Setting the Stage for Equity-Sensitive Monitoring of the Health Millennium Development Goals"
Elizabeth Lule, World Bank- “Gender, poverty and HIV/AIDS”
Kayode Oyegbite, UNICEF- “Perspectives on Gender and Health”
Discussants
Sophie Mitra, Fordham University
Thomas Franklin, UNICEF
Janis Barry, Fordham University
Improving Women's Access to Education
January 30th, 6:00p.m.
Chair
Nora Lustig, Director BDP-UNDP's Poverty Group
Speakers
Marlaine Lockheed, Center for Global Development - Inexcusable Absence. Why 60 million girls are still out of school and what to do about it
Darryl McLeod, Fordham University - “The Female Education-Growth Puzzle: A New Perspective"
Cream Wright, Chief of Education, UNICEF - "Addressing Gender Dimensions of Poverty and Development: New Pathways in Girl's Education"
Discussants
Gwendolyn Alexander, Fordham University
Selim Jahan, Senior Adviser, Strategies and Policies for Poverty Reduction, UNDP
Chandrika Bahadur, Policy Adviser, Education, UNDP
