Date: Wednesday 21 September 2011
Time: 6.00-7.30pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Sergio Cabral, N K Singh, Professor Tony Venables
Chair: Professor Enrico Moretti

Update: Wednesday 7 September 2011, please note that this event will now start at 6pm, not 6.30pm as previously advertised.

Update: Tuesday 20 September 2011, due to unforeseen circumstances Nadeem ul Haque is no longer able to take part in this event.

Urban areas are the most productive parts of the developing world, yet concentrated urban poverty presents some of the biggest policy challenges. This debate will address the potential and the challenges of economic development in urban areas.

Sergio Cabral is Governor of the State of Rio de Janeiro.

N K Singh is a member of the Indian Parliament.

Tony Venables is professor of economics at Oxford University.

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This event is part of the International Growth Centre's Growth Week, a unique three-day conference taking place between 19 and 21 of September at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Growth Week is the annual conference of the IGC, based at the London School of Economics. It brings together the IGC's international network of scholars, institutional partners and policy makers in partner countries in Africa and South Asia for three days.

This event is just one of three public events in Growth Week. Further information on the other Growth Week public events is available - Building Effective States on Monday 19 September and Relevant Capabilities and Industrial Development: stories from Sub-Saharan Africa on Tuesday 20 September.

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