Growing Up Global: Can Education Reduce Gender Inequality and Poverty? Cynthia B. Lloyd
Tuesday, 30 Oct 2007 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room/South Ballroom
Cynthia B. Lloyd is a senior associate with the Poverty, Gender, and Youth program and chair of the Bixby Fellowship program at the Population Council. She also serves on the National Research Council's Committee on Population. Prior to her work at the Population Council, she was chief of the fertility and family planning studies section at the United Nations Population Division and an assistant professor of economics at Barnard College, Columbia University. Lloyd's fields of expertise include transitions to adulthood, children's schooling, gender and population issues, and household and family demography in developing countries. She has worked on these issues extensively in Ghana, Egypt, Kenya, Pakistan, and other developing countries as well as comparatively. Part of the World Affairs Series.Cosponsored By:
- Department of Economics
- World Affairs
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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