Brookings will co-host a debate on whether the rate of global poverty reduction in the next two decades is likely to accelerate or decelerate. Each side will present its rationale, providing compelling data and expert testimony to make their case.

Oxfam will co-host a lively discussion to answer this question, beginning with a reflection on the costs of inequality at the country level, followed by thoughts from development professionals and researchers.

This session will be an opportunity for panelist to discuss the relationship between conflict, fragility and extreme poverty. Panelists will discuss the importance of improving state-society relations with a focus on the perspective of civil society, as well as how donors can prioritize and better coordinate activities in order to address extreme poverty in fragile contexts, and how the New Deal has the potential to be a framework to bring all of these voices together.

This session will emphasize the links between power and economic growth and poverty reduction, from large-scale infrastructure to leveraging investments for mini and off-grid access to electricity.

Reducing extreme poverty means reaching groups that tend to be socially marginalized because of ethnicity, gender, LGBT, disability, or geography. This session will present data on marginalization and provide compelling examples of how donors can advance more inclusive development.

Eradicating extreme poverty will depend first and foremost on the policies of the countries where extreme poverty remains most prevalent. This panel will discuss the political dynamics that shape commitments to addressing extreme poverty, as well as the political constraints that exist among donors and other international actors.

This session will focus on efforts to scale productive technologies through science, markets, and policy in ways that benefit the extreme poor.

Participants will understand that effectively reducing extreme poverty must include tailoring programs and interventions to women’s specific needs and will be informed about promising interventions across several programmatic sectors that help achieve this goal.

Co-hosted with World Resources Institute. This session will focus on how investments in low carbon growth and adaptation are essential to eliminating extreme poverty and it will also highlight Global Forest Watch as an exciting innovation in connection with Tropical Forest Alliance (TFA) 2020.

Panelists will present on the response so far and what is needed going forward. The ensuing conversation will also explore ways in which organization and companies can contribute to the effort.

This panel will bring together leaders from USAID, the World Bank and BRAC to stimulate thinking on how systems and processes of aid programming can take into account an explicit focus on ending extreme poverty.