Brookings Blum Roundtable on Global Poverty
The Brookings Blum Roundtable is an annual forum for global leaders to discuss innovative ideas and advance groundbreaking initiatives to alleviate global poverty. Because of generous funding from Brookings Trustee Richard C. Blum, Roundtable participants have convened each August to explore timely subjects ranging from the emergent new players in the international donor community to the poverty-insecurity nexus. Through these valuable dialogues and connections, the Brookings Blum Roundtable is taking promising steps forward in shaping the policy debate and affecting broad changes on the ground in the fight against global poverty.
July 30, 2009
Forty experts gathered for the Brookings Blum Roundtable to discuss the impact of climate change and the global financial crisis on the world's poor. The experts formed recommendations for global leaders as they prepare to meet in Copenhagen in December to address solutions to global climate change.
August 1, 2008
In its fifth annual gathering, the Brookings Blum Roundtable addressed the challenges of climate change and development and convened leaders from both the development and climate change communities to discuss and debate policy ideas that could benefit both fronts. By examining common challenges—accountability, effective deployment of resources, agenda-setting, mobilizing the public and financial resources, and achieving scale and sustainability—the roundtable established a solid foundation for collaboration among the climate change and development communities and fostered ideas for policy action.
August 1, 2007
On August 1-3, 2007, the Brookings Blum Roundtable gathered representatives reflective of this dynamic landscape to discuss these trends. Through robust discussion and continuing cross-sector partnerships, the conference hopes to foster lasting and widespread improvements in this new field of development.
August 2, 2006
Poverty is both a cause of insecurity and a product of it. To explore this tangled web, in August 2006, the Brookings Blum Roundtable discussed the challenges and possible solutions with a diverse group of leaders, including policymakers, business executives and academics, and developed recommendations for change.