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  August 27, 2008

  Combating Global Poverty

  Speakers:

  Ben Affleck, Actor; Supporter, Ngo-Led Poverty Reduction Initiatives Madeleine K. Albright, Chairman, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, Former Secretary Of State Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development John J. Danilovich, Chief Executive Officer, Millennium Challenge Corporation Tom Daschle, Former Senator (D-sd), Co-Chair, One Vote '08 Health and Poverty Initiative Hernando de Soto, President, Institute For Liberty and Democracy; Co-Chair, Commission on Legal Empowerment ff the Poor Donald M. Payne, Representative (D-nj) Timothy E. Wirth, Chief Executive Officer, United Nations Foundation James D. Wolfensohn, Chairman, Wolfensohn & Co.; Former President, World Bank

  Presider:

  Gayle Smith, Senior Fellow, Center For American Progre

  Experts discuss the challenges global poverty presents and recommend approaches that can help to overcome poverty, inequality, and the concomitant barriers to opportunity for the world's poor at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, cosponsored with the National Democratic Institute, the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies, and the City and County of Denver's 2008 Rocky Mountain Roundtable.

  This roundtable was underwritten, in part, by Chevron Corporation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

   

   

   

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