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#BLPA16 Agenda

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Presentations from #BLPA16

• Anna Fruttero 
• Saurabh Bhargava
• Nadine Dechausay

Speakers & their Organizations

Keynotes:

• Hon Chris Ballard, Minister of Housing and Minister Responsible for the Poverty Reduction Strategy, Government of Ontario 

• Anna Fruttero, Lead Economist/Senior Economist, Poverty and Equity Global Practice at the World Bank

Research Presenters:

• Saurabh Bhargava, Assistant Professor of Economics, Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon; Fellow, Russell Sage Foundation

• Nadine Dechausay, Research Associate, MDRC

Panel Discussion:

• Karen Glass, Assistant Deputy Minister, Poverty Reduction Strategy Office (PRSO) at Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS), Government of Ontario

• May Wong, Executive Director, Omega Foundation

• Stephen Vanderherberg, Senior Manager, Community & Volunteer Engagement at WoodGreen Community Services

• Lynne Woolcott, Director of Community Response and Advocacy, West Neighbourhood House

Our Work on Poverty Alleviation Strategy

• Effectiveness of Conditional vs. Unconditional Cash Transfer Programs (whiteboard animation) by BEAR
• Tackling Global Poverty by Joseph Wong
• Earmarking and Partitioning: Increasing Savings by Low-Income Households by Amar Cheema and Dilip Soman
• Innovating for the Global South: Towards an Inclusive Innovation Agenda by Dilip Soman, Janice Gross Stein, and Joseph Wong

Contact

Academic Lead:

Avni Shah, BEAR Research Fellow, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Toronto- Scarborough

Email: Avni.Shah@rotman.utoronto.ca 

Event Lead:

Liz Kang, Research Coordinator, Behavioural Economics in Action at Rotman (BEAR)

Email: Liz.Kang@rotman.utoronto.ca