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Economist asks: Can poverty be made history?

Posted on 10 February 2006

Leading economist Lord Meghnad Desai will discuss ways to tackle global poverty when he gives the Dixon Lecture at the University of York next week.

Lord Desai, who is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, will ask "Can poverty be made history?" in the Dixon Lecture hosted by the University's Department of Economics and Related Studies.

Educated at the Mumbai School of Economics and Pennsylvania University in the USA, Lord Desai first came to the UK in the early 1960s. He was made a Life Peer in 1991.

The Dixon Lecture will be held in the Room A/TB/056-057 in the Seebohm Rowntree Building on the University's Heslington Campus on Monday 13 February 2006 at 5.30pm. Admission is free and the lecture is open to all.