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Hope Over Fate: Fazle Hasan Abed and the Science of Ending Global Poverty

September 29, 2022
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Thursday, Sep 29 | 6:00 AM PT | 9:00 AM EDT | 5:30 PM (Kabul) | 6:00 PM (Male, Islamabad) | 6:30 PM (New Delhi, Colombo) | 6:45 PM (Kathmandu) | 7:00 PM (Dhaka, Thimphu)

The Office of the Chief Economist for South Asia invites you to join the book launch of Scott MacMillan's Hope Over Fate: Fazle Hasan Abed and the Science of Ending Global Poverty. The untold story of BRAC and its influential founder, it is also the biography of an idea—the idea that hope itself has the power to overcome poverty.

“For too long, people thought poverty was something ordained by a higher power, as immutable as the sun and the moon,” Abed wrote in 2018. His life’s mission was to put that myth to rest.

Chair | Maurizio Bussolo, Lead Economist, Office of the Chief Economist for South Asia Region, World Bank 

 

OPENING REMARKS

9:00-9:10 AM  | Martin Raiser, Vice President, South Asia Region, World Bank 

 

PRESENTATION

9:10-9:30 AM | Scott MacMillan, Author and Director of Learning and Innovation, BRAC USA 

 

REFLECTIONS

9:30-9:35 AM | Mercy Tembon, Vice President and Corporate Secretary, Corporate Secretariat, World Bank 

 

Q&A

9:35-10:00 AM | Open discussion

 

*Light breakfast will be served 30 min prior to the event. 

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