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Explaining and Reducing Poverty in Lithuania: Prospects and Reality
On May 30, 2002 in Vilnius the Lithuanian Free Market Institute and UNDP held a conference Explaining and Reducing Poverty in Lithuania: Prospects and Reality. The goal of the conference was to discuss the causes of poverty in Lithuania and to propose ways and measures for reducing it. The event drew around eighty participants from the Presidents Office, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour, the Lithuanian Labour Exchange, Vilnius Municipality, UNDP, LFMI, various public organisations as well as business and media representatives.
Bellow is the programme of the conference and several photos from the event.
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AGENDA
09:50 Registration
10:00 Welcome Address from the President of Lithuania
10:05 Welcome Speech
Ms. Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Minister of Social Affairs and Labour
Ms. Cihan Sultanoglu, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative
10:20 Poverty and Social Separation in Lithuania
Mr. Algis Dobravolskas, Poverty Monitoring Commission
10:45 Comments
Ms. Skirmantė Kondratienė, Lithuanian Presidents Office
Ms. Gražina Jalinskienė, Ministry of Social Security
Mr. Jonas Mickus, Association of Municipalities
11:05 Discussion
11:30 Coffee break
11:45 The Causes of Poverty and Possibilities of Reducing It
Ms. Guoda Steponavičienė, Lithuanian Free Market Institute
12:10 Discussion
13:00 Lunch Break
14:00 Unemployment Increases the Risk to Become Poor
Mr. Albertas Šlekys, Lithuanian Labor Exchange
14:25 Comments
Ms. Violeta Toleikienė, Vilnius Municipality, Department of Health and Social Security
Mr. Remigijus Šimašius, Lithuanian Free Market Institute
14:45 Discussion
15:10 How the Business People See the Unemployment Problem
Mr. Ignas Staškevičius, Vilniaus prekyba
Mr. Remigijus Šydeikis, Kalnapilis
Agnė Zinkevičiūtė, Vilniaus konsultacinė grupė
15:40 Comments
Mr. Boguslavas Gruževskis, Institute of Labor and Social Research
15:50 Discussion
16:20 Closing remarks
Mr. Ugnius Trumpa, Lithuanian Free Market Institute
16:30 End
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Konferencijos akimirkos
Ms. Skirmantė Kondratienė,
Presidents Advisor
for Social Affairs |
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Ms. Minister of Social Affairs and Labour Vilija
Blinkevičiūtė
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Ms. Cihan Sultanoglu, UN Resident
Coordinator and UNDP Resident
Representative |
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(from the left) Mr. Algis Dobravolskas, Poverty
Monitoring Commission, Ms. Vilija Blinkevičiūtė,
Minister, and Mr. Ugnius Trumpa, LFMI's President |
Ms. Guoda Steponavičienė, LFMI's Vice President
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Mr. Ugnius Trumpa and Mr. Artūras Melianas, MP
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Mr. Albertas Šlekys, Lithuanian Labour
Exchange |
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Mr. Remigijus Šimašius, LFMI's Policy Analyst |
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(from the Left) Mr. Albertas Šlekys, Mr. Ignas Staškevičius, Vilniaus prekyba ,
Mr. Ugnius Trumpa, Mr. Remigijus Šydeikis, Kalnapilis , and Ms. Agnė Zinkevičiūtė,
Vilniaus konsultacinė grupė |
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