Eric White, Integra LLC’s Lead Economist and Managing Associate, will join a panel next Wednesday, May 15th at the World Bank Info Shop. At the event, entitled“Breaking the Rural – Urban Divide”, panelists will be discussing two books released by the World Bank Press; Structural Transformation and Rural Change Revisited and Financing Africa’s Cities. As a co-author of the former, Mr. White will take part in a discussion about the structural transformation process, from both a rural and urban perspective.

The event will be chaired by Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Africa Region, Shantayan Devarjan. He will be joined by discussants Peter Hazell, Visiting Professor at the University of London, and Ira Peppercorn, Senior Housing Finance Specialist at the World Bank. Mr. White will be accompanied by fellow authors Bruno Losch, Lead Economist and Research Director at the Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpment (CIRAD), and Thierry Paulais, Deputy Director of the Africa Department, Agence Francaise de Developpement.

The event is scheduled to take place May 15, 2013 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm, EST in Auditorium J1-050 of the World Bank J Building, 701 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433.

To RSVP for this event, please click here or email infoshopevents@worldbank.org.

Eric White leads Integra’s Development Analytics practice and serves as a manager and consultant in the firm’s work on Agriculture and on ICT for Development. He is a skilled practitioner of the Growth Diagnostics methodology, and co-author of the book “Structural Transformation and Rural Change Revisited”. He has consulted directly to several African governments, as well as to the African Development Bank. He holds a Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) degree from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a BA in Economics from the University of Virginia.