Economist to discuss poverty, gender at Rice’s Baker Institute

CONTACT: Franz Brotzen
PHONE: 713-348-6775
E-MAIL: franz.brotzen@rice.edu

Caren Grown, economist-in-residence at American University, will present “Poverty, Gender and the Millennium Development Goals: Debates, Progress and Ways Forward” at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy at noon Oct. 26. Lunch will be served.
 
Grown’s research focuses on assets and women’s well-being, gender equality and public finance, and international trade and gender. She was formerly senior scholar and co-director of the Gender Equality and Economy Program at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College and director of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Governance Team at the International Center for Research on Women.

Grown is a member of the External Gender Forum of the Asian Development Bank, a founding member of the International Working Group on Gender and Macroeconomics and an associate editor of Feminist Economics. She has edited and authored books and articles on gender equality, development and macroeconomics.
 
Her most recent books are “The Feminist Economics of Trade,” co-edited with Irene van Staveren, Diane Elson, and Nil