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The Growth Report

Launch

Wednesday 21 May 2008 11:00 to 12:30

Location

What Does It Take To Achieve High, Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in Developing Countries? An Examination of Lessons Learned and Key Policy Ingredients for Inclusive Growth.

This event will launch the 'Growth Report' - the result of two years work by some of the world's leading policy makers and economists on the requirements for sustained and inclusive growth in developing countries.

The launch will be followed by a discussion chaired by Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times.

The Panel

• Martin Wolf
  Chief Economics Commentator, the Financial Times (Moderator)
• Michael Spence
  Commission Chair, Nobel Laureate and Professor Emeritus Stanford University
• Lord Browne of Madingley
  Commissioner and former Chief Executive Officer, BP
• Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
  Commissioner, Former Finance Minister, Nigeria, Managing Director, World Bank
• Professor Anthony J. Venables
  Professor of Economics, the University of Oxford and Chief Economist, UK Department for International Development.

Background to the Commission

Launched in April 2006, the Commission on Growth and Development is an independent body consisting of 21 leaders - many of them economists and many of whom have been political leaders - who have been brought together to deepen the understanding of sustained, rapid and inclusive growth and development. For a full list of commissioners, see www.growthcommission.org.

Working on the premise that future global challenges are best met in conditions of rising and sustained prosperity and drawing on the experiences of the 12 countries that have been able to grow at more than 7% for periods of more than 25 years since World War 2, the Commission has been addressing the long-term forces that underpin economic growth.

The Commission's conclusions will highlight the actions that are most likely to improve developing countries' growth prospects. The goal is to provide leaders in developing countries with a framework within which country specific growth strategies and policies can more effectively be developed.

The Commission is supported by the Governments of Australia, Sweden, the Netherlands, and United Kingdom and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the World Bank Group.