(IAPA/IFEX) – The following is an 5 June 2001 IAPA press release: IAPA, World Bank to look at media role in war on poverty in Latin America MIAMI, Florida (June 5, 2001) – Implementation of actions to “tackle poverty” in Latin America is the focus of a meeting this week of editors and publishers of […]
(IAPA/IFEX) – The following is an 5 June 2001 IAPA press release:
IAPA, World Bank to look at media role in war on poverty in Latin America
MIAMI, Florida (June 5, 2001) – Implementation of actions to “tackle poverty” in Latin America is the focus of a meeting this week of editors and publishers of media belonging to the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) and officials of the World Bank.
The seminar, organized jointly by the IAPA Press Institute and the World Bank, aims to form the basis of a discussion and analysis of the role that newspapers and magazines in the Americas might play in the battle to eradicate poverty.
The event, to which some 30 editors and World Bank officials have been invited, is scheduled for Friday (June 8) at the IAPA headquarters, in the Jules Dubois Building in Miami. The participants intend to come up with an action plan for tackling the poverty issue.
IAPA President Danilo Arbilla and David de Ferranti, World Bank Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, will co-chair the meeting. Michael Walton, adviser to the World Bank on poverty, will make a presentation on “the public debate on development strategies” in the region and Enrique Zuleta Puceiro, a specialist consultant to the Bank, will address “the current and projected role of the media in the future development of the region’s social agenda.”
Among the newspapers and agencies to be represented at the event are: Clarín and La Nacion (Argentina), O Estado de S. Paulo and O Globo (Brazil), El Tiempo (Colombia), El Mercurio (Chile), Hoy (Ecuador), Prensa Libre (Guatemala), El Universal (Mexico), La Prensa (Nicaragua), El Comercio (Peru), Diario Las Américas, The Miami Herald, The New York Times and World Times, Inc. (United States), Búsqueda and El País (Uruguay), El Nuevo País (Venezuela), EFE News Service and Reuters.
