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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:middle"><span style="color:black">From
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Tauhidur Rahman, PhD</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please find attached the program for this week’s “<b>University of Arizona and World Bank Development Economics Workshop, 17-19 February 2020</b>.”
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<p class="MsoNormal">The program has a series of keynote speakers who are leaders in their respective fields, and a blockbuster panel discussion on “Gender Equality,” including our Senior Vice-President and Provost, Liesl Folks; Shobha Shetty, Practice Manager,
Africa Region, World Bank; Alison Deming, Regents’ Professor of English, University of Arizona; and Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law, University of Arizona. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The presentation sessions are open to faculty and students. Therefore, I invite you to attend some of the talks.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tauhid<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Tauhidur Rahman, PhD</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Associate Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics (AREC)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Director, The Initiative for Agency and Development (IfAD)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The University of Arizona</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">F: 520.621.6250; T: 520.621.8657</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:tauhid@email.arizona.edu">tauhid@email.arizona.edu</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://cals.arizona.edu/arec/faculty/tauhidur-rahman"><span style="color:blue">https://cals.arizona.edu/arec/faculty/tauhidur-rahman</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:27.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#49595E;font-weight:normal">Empowering the Poor: Reducing Vulnerability, Enhancing Livelihoods<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#403635"><img border="0" width="380" height="214" style="width:3.9583in;height:2.2291in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://compass.arizona.edu/sites/compass.arizona.edu/files/styles/uaqs_small/public/bulletin/Background%20picture_0.jpg?itok=ReXPJN6o" alt="World Bank officials touring developing nations."><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">This 3-day conference brings together a group of development practitioners from governments in South Asia and Africa, World Bank, IFAD,
UNDP, Foundations, and academia who are at the forefront of development, implementation and study of Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods Program. With the financial and professional support from the World Bank and related international development agencies,
various regional governments in Asia and Africa have implemented or are implementing such programs. Individually, these programs have been monitored, evaluated, and studied, but the lessons learned from them are scattered, highlighting the need for a comprehensive,
rigorous synthesis of steps involved in their development; an examination of the challenges in their implementation; and a discussion of the evidence of their impacts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://t.e2ma.net/click/z8y6ln/v5t127/vtkq21c" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#8B0015">https://uanews.arizona.edu/calendar/120603-ua-and-world-bank-development-economi…</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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