and
Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), World Bank
cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent World
Bank publication
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| A Decade of Action in Transport |
| An Evaluation of World Bank Assistance to the Transport Sector, |
| 1995-2005 |
| by Peter Nigel Freeman |
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|The World Bank committed over $30 billion to transport related |
|projects during the past decade, making it one of the largest |
|sectors of Bank support. The evaluation considers the Bank's |
|performance over the last ten years, including the encouragement of|
|greater participation by the private sector, and the improvement of|
|infrastructure maintenance and accessibility for the poor. It |
|concludes with an assessment of the readiness of the Bank to meet |
|future challenges that include worsening traffic congestion, |
|concern about vehicle emissions - and possible implications for |
|climate change - road accidents, and improving the affordability |
|and efficiency of public transport. |
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| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 from 12:00pm - 2:00pm |
|World Bank J Building - J1- 050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St.|
| and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
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| Presentation followed by Light Lunch Reception |
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Opening Remarks by
Vinod Thomas
Director-General Evaluation, World Bank
Vinod Thomas is Director-General, Independent Evaluation Group (IEG)
for the World Bank Group. He was formerly Country Director for
Brazil. Prior to that, he was Vice President of the World Bank
Institute (WBI). Before heading WBI, he held positions as Chief
Economist for the World Bank in the East Asia and Pacific Region. He
was the staff Director for the 1991 World Development Report,
entitled ?The Challenge of Development? which assessed the world?s
development experience. He was also Chief of Trade Policy and
Principal Economist for Colombia.
Presentation by
Peter Freeman
Lead Evaluation Officer, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank
Peter Freeman is the Lead Evaluation Officer responsible for
transport projects at the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group
(IEG). Mr. Freeman is Lead Author of the book ?A Decade of Action
in Transport: an Evaluation of World Bank Assistance to the
Transport Sector, 1995-2005.? Peter joined IEG from South Africa in
2003. Mr. Freeman has many years of both operational and evaluation
experience in infrastructure and was formerly Group Head:
Infrastructure at the Development Bank of Southern Africa and
Business Development Manager at the Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research in Pretoria.
Comments by
Jamil Saghir
Director, Energy, Transport and Water, in the Sustainable Vice
Presidency (SDNVP), World Bank
Jamil Saghir is the chair of the Energy and Mining Sector Board,
Transport Sector Board, and Water Sector Board. Mr. Saghir joined
the Bank in 1990 and worked on a variety of private sector
development, privatization and restructuring assignments in Africa,
Latin America, the CIS countries and the Middle East and North
Africa. In 1994, Mr. Saghir joined the Middle East Country
Department then transferred to the Private Sector Development and
Infrastructure Division in 1995. In 1999, Mr. Saghir was appointed
Sector Manager, in the Infrastructure Development Group in MENA.
Kenneth Button
Professor and Director, Center for Transportation Policy, Operations
and Logistics, George Mason University
Kenneth Button is a Professor of Public Policy at the George Mason
School of Public Policy and a world-renowned expert on
transportation policy. Prof. Button has published some 80 books and
over 400 academic papers in the field of transport economics,
transport planning, environmental analysis and industrial
organization. Before coming to the School of Public Policy, Dr.
Button served as advisor to the Secretary General of the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development where he
headed up the OECD work on International Aviation (which produced
The Future of International Air Transport Policy: Responding to
Global Change).
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