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Free Talk Tonight on Extreme Poverty, Global Inequality

Economist John W. McArthur is speaking at Washington University tonight.

International development economist John W. McArthur is slated to speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, at Washington University's Brown Hall Lounge.

McArthur will appear as part of the Brown School’s Policy Forum. His talk is titled “The Millenium Development Goals, the Eradication of Extreme Poverty, and the Future of Global Inequality.”

The event is free and open to the public.

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According to Washington University, McArthur is an economist focused on economic growth, technological advance, sustainability, poverty reduction and global collaboration.

He is a senior fellow with the United Nations Foundation; senior fellow with the Fung Global Institute’s project on Evolving Growth Models; and a nonresident senior fellow with the Brookings Institution.

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McArthur was previously the CEO of Millennium Promise, an international non-governmental organization committed to supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to cut extreme poverty by half by 2015.

His writing has appeared in publications such as The Bangkok Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Foreign Affairs, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The National Post and Stanford Social Innovation Review.


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