Infoshop Events: 2007

Thursday, December 20, 2007

"Russia's Capitalist Revolution" on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 12:00pm in J1-050

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| ) | challenging much of the conventional wisdom, and |
| | Russia's experience is no exception. This book |
| | focuses on the transformation from Soviet Russia |
| | to Russia as a market economy, and explores why |
| | the country has failed to transform into a |
| | democracy. It examines the period from 1985, when |
| | Mikhail Gorbachev became the Soviet Union's |
| | Secretary General of the Communist Party, to the |
| | present Russia of Vladimir Putin. Mr. Åslund |
| | provides a broad overview of Russia's economic |
| | change, highlighting the most important issues |
| | and their subsequent resolutions, including |
| | Russia's inability to sort out the ruble zone |
| | during its revolution, several failed coups, and |
| | the financial crash of August 1998. |
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| | For more information about the book: |
| | http://bookstore.petersoninstitute.org/book-store |
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Anders Åslund has done for the collapse of Russian communism what E.
H. Carr did for the Bolshevik Revolution.
Simon Johnson, Director, Research Department, International Monetary
Fund

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building Auditorium J1 - 050
701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

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OPENING REMARKS BY
Pradeep Mitra
Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank
Mr. Mitra is the World Bank?s Chief Economist for Europe and Central
Asia, a region which includes the countries of Eastern Europe, the
former Soviet Union, and Turkey. He was Chief of Country Operations
for Russia during the mid-nineties and then served as Director in
charge of the Bank?s economists working on poverty reduction,
economic management and public sector institutional reform in the
Europe and Central Asia region. He has published widely in public
economics, macroeconomics and development economics, including
Transition: The First Ten Years, Analysis and Lessons for Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union.
PRESENTED BY
Anders Åslund
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Mr. Åslund, known to repeatedly challenge conventional wisdom on
?transition economies,? is a leading specialist on postcommunist
economic transformation with more than 30 years of experience in the
field. He boldly predicted the fall of the Soviet Union in his
Gorbachev?s Struggle for Economic Reform (1989). In Building
Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc (2002) he
firmly stated that the only choice Russia had was market reform. In
this new book, he explains why Russia?s market reform succeeded and
democracy building failed. Before joining the Peterson Institute he
was the director of the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, and he codirected the Carnegie
Moscow Center?s project on Post-Soviet Economies. Mr. Åslund has
also worked as an economic adviser to the Russian government
(1991?94), to the Ukrainian government, and to the president of the
Kyrgyz Republic. He was founding director of the Stockholm
Institute of Transition Economics and professor at the Stockholm
School of Economics (1989?94).

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About the Peterson Institute
The Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics is a
private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the
study of international economic policy. Since 1981 the Institute has
provided timely and objective analysis of, and concrete solutions
to, a wide range of international economic problems. It is one of
the very few economics think tanks that are widely regarded as
"nonpartisan" by the press and "neutral" by the Congress, and it is
cited by the quality media more than any other such institution.
For more information, please visit:

http://www.petersoninstitute.org/

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Monday, December 17, 2007

"Adapting to the Changing Climate in the Bank on Climate Change" discussed in the InfoShop on Wednesday, January 9 at 3:00pm in JB1-080

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| | Curious about the buzz surrounding |
| | climate change talk? Just can?t get away |
| | from it, can you? Wondering what all the |
| | talk on climate change impact, |
| | mitigation, and adaptation means? |
| | |
| | If you have pondered over these issues |
| | then you are invited to come hear |
| | Professor Robert Mendelsohn from Yale |
| | University, who will share his thoughts |
| | on climate change impacts and adaptation. |
| | He is a leading authority on the |
| | economics of climate change and policy. |
| | Over the last decade, he has developed |
| | insightful techniques for measuring the |
| | impacts from climate change that capture |
| | adaptation. Results of his research have |
| | been used to calibrate global impact |
| | models that predict the consequences of |
| | various climate scenarios. This research |
| | finds that climate change will hit low |
| | latitude countries especially hard but |
| | the net harmful effects of climate change |
| | will only become evident in the second |
| | half of this century. |
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
3:00 - 4:30 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium JB1-080

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calendar

PRESENTED BY
Robert Mendelsohn
Professor of Economics, School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies, Yale University
Mr. Mendelsohn holds dual appointments at the Yale School of
Forestry and Environmental Sciences, and the Yale School of
Management. His area of interest is resource economics, with special
emphasis in valuing the environment. Over the last decade, he has
been involved in measuring the impacts from climate change. Mr.
Mendelsohn has also worked on valuing natural ecosystems, from
valuing nontimber forest products and ecotourism in tropical
rainforests, to coral reefs in the Caribbean and Australia, to
measuring recreation in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

DISCUSSED BY
Shanta Devarajan
Chief Economist, South Asia Region, World Bank
Mr. Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank?s South Asia
Region, and also maintains a popular web blog open to public
opinion: "http://endpovertyinsouthasia.worldbank.org/". Since
joining the World Bank in 1991, he has been a Principal Economist
and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development
Research Group, as well as the Chief Economist of the Human
Development Network. He was the Director of the World Development
Report 2004, Making Services Work for Poor People. Before 1991, he
was on the faculty of Harvard University?s John F. Kennedy School of
Government. Shantayanan Devarajan's research covers public
economics, trade policy, natural resources and the environment, and
general-equilibrium modeling of developing countries.

Homi Kharas
Senior Fellow, Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings
Institution
Mr. Kharas is a Senior Fellow at the Wolfensohn Center for
Development at Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. He is a
member of the Working Group for the Commission on Growth and
Development, chaired by Michael Spence. Previously, Mr. Kharas
served as Chief Economist for the World Bank?s East Asia and Pacific
region, and as Director for Poverty Reduction and Economic
Management, Finance and Private Sector Development, responsible for
the Bank?s advice on structural and economic policies, fiscal
issues, debt, trade, governance and financial markets. In 1990-91,
he was a Senior Partner with Jeff Sachs and Associates, advising
governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union on transition.
His research interests are now focused on global trends, East Asian
growth and development, and international aid for the poorest
countries.

MODERATED BY
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist, World Bank
Prior to joining the East Asia and Pacific Sustainable Development
Department of the Bank, Mr. Sanghi worked on development topics
ranging from infrastructure and climate change to microfinance and
agricultural economics. He has also worked in private sector
consulting, for the Thailand Development Research Institute, a
non-profit think-tank, and has held teaching and research positions
at the University of Chicago, Thammasat University in Bangkok, and
Yale University. His research has focused on the economic impact of
global warming in Brazil and India.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Friday, December 14, 2007

REMINDER: "Transforming the Rural Nonfarm Economy" discussed in the InfoShop on Friday, December 14 at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop & The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) & The
Sustainable Rural and Urban Development Unit of the World Bank?s Development
Research Department

invite you to a discussion featuring a new book from IFPRI, The World Bank,
Johns Hopkins University Press

Transforming the Rural Nonfarm Economy
Opportunities and Threats in the Developing World
Edited by Steven Haggblade, Peter Hazell, and Thomas Reardon

Contrary to the conventional belief that rural economies subsist on agriculture,
nonfarm work actually accounts for between one-third and one-half of rural
incomes in the developing world. The nonfarm rural economy, a vibrant, often
fast-growing, small-scale service and manufacturing sector, holds much promise
both for overall economic growth and pro-poor rural and agricultural
transformation. But it is also threatened by globalization, competition from
larger businesses, and other trends.

How can this rapidly evolving segment of the economy contribute to economic
growth and poverty reduction, despite the many risks? A new book answers this
question in detail. Contributors examine the varied scale, structure, and
composition of the rural nonfarm economy; the role of public intervention in
this sector; the ways that poor people can successfully navigate the rapid
transition underway in rural areas; and the most effective policy environment.

For more information on the book, visit:
http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/jhu/transformrural.asp

?Policymakers focus on macro-magnitudes first, urban-industrial growth next,
agriculture last, and on the rural nonfarm economy hardly at all. Yet it creates
at least one-third of rural income, output, and employment, and faces huge new
prospects, but also huge threats, from post-liberalization supply chains. This
path-breaking book organizes numerous examples and experiences into a new
picture of what causes or impedes rural nonfarm growth, what makes it pro-poor,
and what governments can do about it.?
--Michael Lipton, Research Professor of Economics, Poverty Research Unit,
University of Sussex

Friday, December 14
12:00 - 1:30 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050

MODERATED BY
Regina Birner
Senior Research Fellow, Development Strategy and Governance Division, IFPRI

OPENING REMARKS BY
Forhad Shilpi
Senior Economist, Development Economics Research Group, World Bank
.
PRESENTED BY
Steven Haggblade
Professor of International Development, Michigan State University and co-editor
of the book

Paul Dorosh
Senior economist, Spatial and Local Development Team, Sustainable Development
Network, World Bank and book contributor

DISCUSSED BY
John Horton
Senior natural resource specialist, Inter-American Development Bank
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About IFPRI
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was established in 1975
to provide sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. IFPRI is one of
15 agricultural research centers that receive their principal funding from
governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations,
most of which are members of the Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research.
For more information, visit www.ifpri.org

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Thursday, December 13, 2007

REMINDER: "Transforming the Rural Nonfarm Economy" discussed in the InfoShop on Friday, December 14 at 12:00pm in J1-050

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The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
&
The Sustainable Rural and Urban Development Unit of the World Bank?s
Development Research Department

invite you to a discussion featuring a new book from
IFPRI
The World Bank
Johns Hopkins University Press

Transforming the Rural Nonfarm Economy
Opportunities and Threats in the Developing World
Edited by Steven Haggblade, Peter Hazell, and Thomas Reardon
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| | |
| | Contrary to the conventional belief |
| (Embedded image | that rural economies subsist on |
| moved to file: | agriculture, nonfarm work actually |
| pic18133.jpg) | accounts for between one-third and |
| | one-half of rural incomes in the |
| | developing world. The nonfarm rural |
| | economy, a vibrant, often |
| | fast-growing, small-scale service and |
| | manufacturing sector, holds much |
| | promise both for overall economic |
| | growth and pro-poor rural and |
| | agricultural transformation. But it is |
| | also threatened by globalization, |
| | competition from larger businesses, |
| | and other trends. |
| | |
| | How can this rapidly evolving segment |
| | of the economy contribute to economic |
| | growth and poverty reduction, despite |
| | the many risks? A new book answers |
| | this question in detail. Contributors |
| | examine the varied scale, structure, |
| | and composition of the rural nonfarm |
| | economy; the role of public |
| | intervention in this sector; the ways |
| | that poor people can successfully |
| | navigate the rapid transition underway |
| | in rural areas; and the most effective |
| | policy environment. |
| | |
| | For more information on the book, |
| | visit: |
| |

http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/jhu/transfor

|
| | mrural.asp |
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?Policymakers focus on macro-magnitudes first, urban-industrial
growth next, agriculture last, and on the rural nonfarm economy
hardly at all. Yet it creates at least one-third of rural income,
output, and employment, and faces huge new prospects, but also huge
threats, from post-liberalization supply chains. This path-breaking
book organizes numerous examples and experiences into a new picture
of what causes or impedes rural nonfarm growth, what makes it
pro-poor, and what governments can do about it.?
--Michael Lipton, Research Professor of Economics, Poverty Research
Unit, University of Sussex

Friday, December 14
12:00 - 1:30 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050

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MODERATED BY
Regina Birner
Senior Research Fellow, Development Strategy and Governance Division, IFPRI

Paul Dorosh
Senior economist, Spatial and Local Development Team, Sustainable Development
Network, World Bank and book contributor

DISCUSSED BY
John Horton
Senior natural resource specialist, Inter-American Development Bank

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About IFPRI
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was
established in 1975 to provide sustainable solutions for ending
hunger and poverty. IFPRI is one of 15 agricultural research centers
that receive their principal funding from governments, private
foundations, and international and regional organizations, most of
which are members of the Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research.
For more information, visit www.ifpri.org

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

REMINDER: Knowledge for Development (K4D) Seminar on "Korea as a Knowledge Economy: Evolutionary Process and Lessons Learned" - Thursday Dec 13, 2007 at 3:30 pm in room I2-250

InfoShop & Knowledge for Development, A learning Program
cordially invite you to a dissemination seminar:

Korea as a Knowledge Economy
Evolutionary Process and Lessons Learned

This book on Korea is geared towards policymakers from developing countries who
are interesting in transitioning their countries towards the knowledge economy.
By reviewing its economic development since the 1960s, the book not only
examines the current policies and challenges of today?s high-income Korea, but
also highlights the array of knowledge strategies deployed to propel Korea to
its present state. The book therefore provides compelling policy lessons that
are relevant for developing countries at different stages of economic
development.
For more information or to order the report, please visit the link below:
http://web.worldbank.org/k4d
Thursday, December 13, 2007
3:30 - 5:30 pm
World Bank I Building
Auditorium I2-250
1850 I Street, NW Washington, DC 20433
A reception will follow the presentation
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org

CHAIR
Bruno Laporte
Manager, Knowledge and Human Development, World Bank Institute

OPENING REMARKS
Rakesh Nangia
Acting Vice President, World Bank Institute

Joong-Kyung Choi
Alternate Executive Director-Republic of Korea, The World Bank

PRESENTER
Derek Chen
Economist, Knowledge for Development Program, World Bank Institute

Joonghae Suh
Director General, Ministry of Planning and Budget, Korea

COMMENTARY
Alice Amsden
Professor of Political Economy, Department of Urban Studies and Planning,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ji-Hong Kim
Associate Dean, Korea Development Institute (KDI) School of Public Policy and
Management

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive
events program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has
hosted many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis
Fukuyama, Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and
Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at
headquarters and provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000
titles published by the World Bank, international organizations, and other
publishers on development issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

REMINDER: "Global Warming and Agriculture" on Thursday, December 13 at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop & Peterson Institute for International Economics
cordially invite you to a presentation on

Global Warming and Agriculture
Impact Estimates By Country

William Cline asserts that developing countries have more at risk than
industrial countries as global warming worsens. Using general circulation and
agricultural impact models, Cline boldly examines 2070?99 to forecast the
effects of global warming and its economic impact. This detailed study outlines
existing studies on the agricultural impact of climate change; estimates
projected changes in temperature, precipitation, and agricultural capacity; and
concludes with policy recommendations.
For more information about the book: http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/

Thursday, December 13, 2007

12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building Auditorium J1 - 050
701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

OPENING REMARKS BY
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist in the East Asia and Pacific Region, Sustainable Development
Department of the World Bank
Mr. Sanghi has worked on development topics ranging from infrastructure and
climate change to microfinance and agricultural economics, and has taught
economics at the University of Chicago and Thammasat University in Thailand. He
holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago, where his
dissertation was on the economic impact of climate change on agriculture in
Brazil and India - work on which William Cline draws upon for his own book.

PRESENTED BY
William Cline
Senior fellow jointly at the Center for Global Development and the Peterson
Institute for International Economics
During 1996-2001, Mr. Cline was deputy managing director and chief economist at
the Institute of International Finance. Mr. Cline was a senior fellow at the
Brookings Institution; deputy director of development and trade research, office
of the assistant secretary for international affairs, US Treasury Department;
Ford Foundation visiting professor in Brazil; and lecturer and assistant
professor of economics at Princeton University. He is the author of 22 books,
including The United States as a Debtor Nation (2005), Trade Policy and Global
Poverty (2004), Trade and Income Distribution (1997), International Debt
Reexamined (1995), and The Economics of Global Warming (1992), which was
selected by Choice for its 1993 "Outstanding Academic Books" list and the winner
of the Harold and Margaret Sprout Prize for best book on International
Environmental Affairs, awarded by the International Studies Association.
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About the Peterson Institute
The Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics is a private,
nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of
international economic policy. Since 1981 the Institute has provided timely and
objective analysis of, and concrete solutions to, a wide range of international
economic problems. It is one of the very few economics think tanks that are
widely regarded as "nonpartisan" by the press and "neutral" by the Congress, and
it is cited by the quality media more than any other such institution.
For more information, please visit: http://www.petersoninstitute.org/

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

REMINDER: "Global Warming and Agriculture" on Thursday, December 13 at 12:00pm in J1-050

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Peterson Institute for International Economics
cordially invite you to a presentation on
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| pic22885.jpg | William Cline asserts that developing countries |
| ) | have more at risk than industrial countries as |
| | global warming worsens. Using general circulation |
| | and agricultural impact models, Cline boldly |
| | examines 2070?99 to forecast the effects of |
| | global warming and its economic impact. This |
| | detailed study outlines existing studies on the |
| | agricultural impact of climate change; estimates |
| | projected changes in temperature, precipitation, |
| | and agricultural capacity; and concludes with |
| | policy recommendations. |
| | |
| | |
| | For more information about the book: |
| | http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/

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Thursday, December 13, 2007
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building Auditorium J1 - 050
701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

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OPENING REMARKS BY
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist in the East Asia and Pacific Region, Sustainable Development
Department of the World Bank
Mr. Sanghi has worked on development topics ranging from
infrastructure and climate change to microfinance and agricultural
economics, and has taught economics at the University of Chicago and
Thammasat University in Thailand. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from
the University of Chicago, where his dissertation was on the
economic impact of climate change on agriculture in Brazil and India
- work on which William Cline draws upon for his own book.

http://www.petersoninstitute.org/

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

REMINDER: Knowledge for Development (K4D) Seminar on "Korea as a Knowledge Economy: Evolutionary Process and Lessons Learned" - Thursday Dec 13, 2007 at 3:30 pm in room I2-250

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cordially invite you to a dissemination seminar:
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| | economic development since the 1960s, the book |
| | not only examines the current policies and |
| | challenges of today?s high-income Korea, but |
| | also highlights the array of knowledge |
| | strategies deployed to propel Korea to its |
| | present state. The book therefore provides |
| | compelling policy lessons that are relevant for |
| | developing countries at different stages of |
| | economic development. |
| | For more information or to order the report, |
| | please visit the link below: |
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http://web.worldbank.org/k4d

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Thursday, December 13, 2007
3:30 - 5:30 pm
World Bank I Building
Auditorium I2-250
1850 I Street, NW Washington, DC 20433
A reception will follow the presentation

Note: This button will also add the event to your Lotus Notes calendar
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org

CHAIR
Bruno Laporte
Manager, Knowledge and Human Development, World Bank Institute

OPENING REMARKS
Rakesh Nangia
Acting Vice President, World Bank Institute

Joong-Kyung Choi
Alternate Executive Director-Republic of Korea, The World Bank

PRESENTER
Derek Chen
Economist, Knowledge for Development Program, World Bank Institute

Joonghae Suh
Director General, Ministry of Planning and Budget, Korea

COMMENTARY
Alice Amsden
Professor of Political Economy, Department of Urban Studies and
Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ji-Hong Kim
Associate Dean, Korea Development Institute (KDI) School of Public
Policy and Management

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Monday, December 10, 2007

Launch of "The World Trade Indicators" on Wednesday, December 19 at 11:30am in J1-050

InfoShop and World Bank Institute cordially invite you to the launch of:

The World Trade Indicators: Tools for Policy Analysis

Trade integration plays an important role in national development and poverty
reduction. This compact, user-friendly, and easily accessible interactive
database contains 126 indicators measuring at-the-border and behind-the-border
trade policy performance and outcome for 208 countries. Drawing from
internationally comparable databases and including some new measures of trade
policy, the database groups country performance around five main pillars: border
protection, such as tariffs and non-tariff barriers on goods and services;
constraints to market access in the rest of the world; the overall business and
institutional environment; trade facilitation; and trade outcomes, such as trade
growth, and diversification. These indicators can be used to benchmark and rank
a country?s policy and outcome performance vis-a-vis partners, and current and
potential competitors on world markets. The database may also be used to compare
changes in policy and outcomes during the last decade.

Wednesday, December 19
11:30 am -1:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A buffet lunch will be served.

*RSVP AND PHOTO ID REQUIRED* Please register on:
http://info.worldbank.org/etools/wbiTrade/reg.htm
For more information contact Lucas Bossard:
Email:lbossard1@worldbank.org; Phone: 202-473-0548

WELCOMING REMARKS
Rakesh Nangia
Acting Vice President, World Bank Institute
Mr. Nangia is the World Bank Institute?s (WBI) Acting Vice President and
Director of Operations. The latter position he assumed in September 2006 and he
was appointed Acting Vice President of WBI in March 2007. In his more than 20
years in the World Bank, Mr. Nangia?s career has spanned a wide range of
countries and positions, including development work in Africa, East Asia,
Eastern Europe and South Asia, as well as in the Bank's Corporate Secretariat
and Central Accounting group. Prior to his current position, Mr. Nangia served
as Manager, Portfolio and Country Operations, in Vietnam.

INTRODUCTION
Danny Leipziger
Vice President and Head of Network, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management,
World Bank
Mr. Leipziger has been Vice President of the World Bank's Poverty Reduction and
Economic Management Network since 2004. He provides leadership for the Bank?s
strategic work on growth and poverty reduction and is also the focal point for
economic policy, debt, trade, gender and governance issues. His previous
positions at the Bank have included Director of the Finance, Infrastructure and
Private Sector Group of the Latin America and the Caribbean Region (LAC); and
Lead Departmental Economist in both the LAC and the East Asia and Pacific
Regions. Prior to joining the Bank, he worked with the U.S. Department of State
and with the U.S. Agency for International Development.

PRESENTERS
Roumeen Islam
Manager, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank Institute
Ms. Islam is Manager of the World Bank Institute?s Poverty Reduction & Economic
Management Division. Prior to joining WBI, Ms. Islam was Staff Director of the
World Bank's World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for
Markets.She was advisor to the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President in the
Bank's Development Economics group. Ms. Islam has also worked in World Bank
Operations in several regions. Her professional expertise includes public
expenditure rationalization, fiscal stability, growth strategies, trade and
exchange rate issues, sovereign debt rationalization, financial sector reform,
and private sector development.

Gianni Zanini
Lead Economist, World Bank Institute
Mr. Zanini is a Lead Economist at the World Bank Institute (WBI). Since late
2002, he has led WBI?s trade team, working on capacity building and external
training programs in trade policy reform, trade facilitation, and the
multilateral, regional, and bilateral trade agreements. He has more than 17
years experience at the World Bank, first as a country economist and then as an
evaluator of the performance of Bank programs. Prior to working at the World
Bank, he taught at the University of California, Davis.

DISCUSSANT
Michael Moore
Elliott School of International Affairs and Department of Economics, George
Washington University
Mr. Moore is the founding Director of the Institute for International Economic
Policy at the George Washington University?s Elliott School of International
Affairs. He served as Senior Economist for International Trade at the White
House Council of Economic Advisers from July 2002 through July 2003. He teaches
courses on international economics, at the undergraduate, master's, and PhD
levels. Mr. Moore's most recent research is on antidumping procedures in the
United States, and U.S. and European steel industries and their adjustment to
international competition.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

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Reminder:"The Impact of 21st Century Slavery and Human Trafficking on Development" discussed in the Preston auditorium on Monday, December 10 at noon

To raise awareness and to mark International Human Rights Day 2007, the Human
Development Network, the Infoshop and the Library and Archives of Development
will sponsor a panel discussion on

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Dubbed as the ?the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the
world?, slavery and human trafficking preys on the poorest segments
of population. The panel will present factors that contribute to
the growth of forced labor and trafficking, as well as discuss how
international development institutions can help eradicate slavery.
Gain more knowledge on a topic that devastates over 27 million poor
people around the world today. Join the discussion on

Monday, December 10 at noon in Preston auditorium
For non bank staff, please RSVP to
InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
_______________________________________________________________________________________
About the World Bank Group Library
The World Bank Group Library is part of the Library and Archives of
Development. It is also a member of the Library Network offering a
range of high quality services that support the work of the World
Bank Group and IMF staff. The Library caters to the lending sectors
of the World Bank Group in areas such as Capital Markets, Gender,
Information Technology, Labor, Health, Education, and Rural and
Urban Development.
For more information, visit: http://LAD

About the Social Protection Unit
The Social Protection Unit, as part of the Human Development Hub,
supports the World Bank and client countries to assist individuals,
households and communities to better manage the income and welfare
risks that affect vulnerable groups.

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Friday, December 7, 2007

REMINDER - "The Impact of 21st Century Slavery and Human Trafficking on Development" discussed in the Preston auditorium on Monday, December 10 at noon

To raise awareness and to mark International Human Rights Day 2007, the Human
Development Network, the Infoshop and the Library and Archives of Development
will sponsor a panel discussion on

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Dubbed as ?the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world?, slavery and
human trafficking preys on the poorest segments of population. The panel will
present factors that contribute to the growth of forced labor and trafficking,
as well as discuss how international development institutions can help eradicate
slavery. Gain more knowledge on a topic that devastates over 27 million poor
people around the world today. Join the discussion on

Monday, December 10 at noon in Preston auditorium

Note: This button will also add the event to
your Lotus Notes calendar
For non bank staff, please RSVP to
InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
________________________________________________________________________________________
About the World Bank Group Library
The World Bank Group Library is part of the Library and Archives of Development.
It is also a member of the Library Network offering a range of high quality
services that support the work of the World Bank Group and IMF staff. The
Library caters to the lending sectors of the World Bank Group in areas such as
Capital Markets, Gender, Information Technology, Labor, Health, Education, and
Rural and Urban Development.
For more information, visit: http://LAD

About the Social Protection Unit
The Social Protection Unit, as part of the Human Development Hub, supports the
World Bank and client countries to assist individuals, households and
communities to better manage the income and welfare risks that affect vulnerable
groups.

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Launch of "The World Trade Indicators" on Wednesday, December 19 at 11:30am in J1-050

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cordially invite you to the launch of:
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| The World Trade Indicators |
| Tools for Policy Analysis |
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| Trade integration plays an important role in national |
| development and poverty reduction. This compact, user-friendly, |
| and easily accessible interactive database contains 126 |
| indicators measuring at-the-border and behind-the-border trade |
| policy performance and outcome for 208 countries. Drawing from |
| internationally comparable databases and including some new |
| measures of trade policy, the database groups country |
| performance around five main pillars: border protection, such |
| as tariffs and non-tariff barriers on goods and services; |
| constraints to market access in the rest of the world; the |
| overall business and institutional environment; trade |
| facilitation; and trade outcomes, such as trade growth, and |
| diversification. These indicators can be used to benchmark and |
| rank a country?s policy and outcome performance vis-a-vis |
| partners, and current and potential competitors on world |
| markets. The database may also be used to compare changes in |
| policy and outcomes during the last decade. |
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Wednesday, December 19
11:30 am -1:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A buffet lunch will be served.

Note: This button will also add the event to your Lotus Notes calendar

For more information contact Lucas Bossard:
Email:lbossard1@worldbank.org; Phone: 202-473-0548

WELCOMING REMARKS
Rakesh Nangia
Acting Vice President
World Bank Institute
Mr. Nangia is the World Bank Institute?s (WBI) Acting Vice President
and Director of Operations. The latter position he assumed in
September 2006 and he was appointed Acting Vice President of WBI in
March 2007. In his more than 20 years in the World Bank, Mr.
Nangia?s career has spanned a wide range of countries and positions,
including development work in Africa, East Asia, Eastern Europe and
South Asia, as well as in the Bank's Corporate Secretariat and
Central Accounting group. Prior to his current position, Mr. Nangia
served as Manager, Portfolio and Country Operations, in Vietnam.

INTRODUCTION
Danny Leipziger
Vice President and Head of Network
Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank
Mr. Leipziger has been Vice President of the World Bank's Poverty
Reduction and Economic Management Network since 2004. He provides
leadership for the Bank?s strategic work on growth and poverty
reduction and is also the focal point for economic policy, debt,
trade, gender and governance issues. His previous positions at the
Bank have included Director of the Finance, Infrastructure and
Private Sector Group of the Latin America and the Caribbean Region
(LAC); and Lead Departmental Economist in both the LAC and the East
Asia and Pacific Regions. Prior to joining the Bank, he worked with
the U.S. Department of State and with the U.S. Agency for
International Development.

PRESENTERS
Roumeen Islam
Manager
Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank Institute
Ms. Islam is Manager of the World Bank Institute?s Poverty Reduction
& Economic Management Division. Prior to joining WBI, Ms. Islam was
Staff Director of the World Bank's World Development Report 2002:
Building Institutions for Markets.She was advisor to the Chief
Economist and Senior Vice President in the Bank's Development
Economics group. Ms. Islam has also worked in World Bank Operations
in several regions. Her professional expertise includes public
expenditure rationalization, fiscal stability, growth strategies,
trade and exchange rate issues, sovereign debt rationalization,
financial sector reform, and private sector development.

Gianni Zanini
Lead Economist
World Bank Institute
Mr. Zanini is a Lead Economist at the World Bank Institute (WBI).
Since late 2002, he has led WBI?s trade team, working on capacity
building and external training programs in trade policy reform,
trade facilitation, and the multilateral, regional, and bilateral
trade agreements. He has more than 17 years experience at the World
Bank, first as a country economist and then as an evaluator of the
performance of Bank programs. Prior to working at the World Bank, he
taught at the University of California, Davis.

DISCUSSANT
Michael Moore
Elliott School of International Affairs and Department of Economics
George Washington University
Mr. Moore is the founding Director of the Institute for
International Economic Policy at the George Washington University?s
Elliott School of International Affairs. He served as Senior
Economist for International Trade at the White House Council of
Economic Advisers from July 2002 through July 2003. He teaches
courses on international economics, at the undergraduate, master's,
and PhD levels. Mr. Moore's most recent research is on antidumping
procedures in the United States, and U.S. and European steel
industries and their adjustment to international competition.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Knowledge for Development (K4D) Seminar on "Korea as a Knowledge Economy: Evolutionary Process and Lessons Learned" - Thursday Dec 13, 2007 at 3:30 pm in room I2-250

InfoShop & Knowledge for Development cordially invite you to a dissemination
seminar:

Korea as a Knowledge Economy
Evolutionary Process and Lessons Learned

CHAIR
Bruno Laporte
Manager, Knowledge and Human Development, World Bank Institute

OPENING REMARKS
Rakesh Nangia
Acting Vice President, World Bank Institute

Joong-Kyung Choi
Alternate Executive Director-Republic of Korea, The World Bank

PRESENTER
Derek Chen
Economist, Knowledge for Development Program, World Bank Institute

Joonghae Suh
Director General, Ministry of Planning and Budget, Korea

COMMENTARY
Alice Amsden
Professor of Political Economy, Department of Urban Studies and Planning,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ji-Hong Kim
Associate Dean, Korea Development Institute (KDI) School of Public Policy and
Management
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

"Global Warming and Agriculture" on Thursday, December 13 at 12:00pm in J1-050

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&
Peterson Institute for International Economics
cordially invite you to a presentation on
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| ) | have more at risk than industrial countries as |
| | global warming worsens. Using general circulation |
| | and agricultural impact models, Cline boldly |
| | examines 2070?99 to forecast the effects of |
| | global warming and its economic impact. This |
| | detailed study outlines existing studies on the |
| | agricultural impact of climate change; estimates |
| | projected changes in temperature, precipitation, |
| | and agricultural capacity; and concludes with |
| | policy recommendations. |
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| | For more information about the book: |
| | http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/

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Thursday, December 13, 2007
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building Auditorium J1 - 050
701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

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http://www.petersoninstitute.org/

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Monday, December 3, 2007

Knowledge for Development (K4D) Seminar on "Korea as a Knowledge Economy: Evolutionary Process and Lessons Learned" - Thursday Dec 13, 2007 at 3:30 pm in room I2-250

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cordially invite you to a dissemination seminar:
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| pic19557.jp | policymakers from developing countries who are |
| g) | interesting in transitioning their countries |
| | towards the knowledge economy. By reviewing |
| | its economic development since the 1960s, the |
| | book not only examines the current policies |
| | and challenges of today?s high-income Korea, |
| | but also highlights the array of knowledge |
| | strategies deployed to propel Korea to its |
| | present state. The book therefore provides |
| | compelling policy lessons that are relevant |
| | for developing countries at different stages |
| | of economic development. |
| | For more information or to order the report, |
| | please visit the link below: |
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http://web.worldbank.org/k4d

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