cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent a Palgrave
Macmillan and World Bank publication
Services Trade and Development: The Experience of Zambia
Edited by Aaditya Mattoo and Lucy Payton
Some see services trade reform as irrelevant to the development agenda of a
least developed country like Zambia.
Others see few benefits from past, and hence future, market opening. This book
debunks both views. It finds that there are substantial benefits from reform of
telecommunications, transport, financial and tourism services. But past
liberalization in weak and inappropriate regulatory contexts has led to perverse
results and undermined the case for further reform. Moreover, the failure to
design and implement efficient policies to widen access to services could lead
to a reversion to state capitalism and the use of inefficient instruments of
?empowerment?. The book identifies priorities for domestic reform and
international engagement.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
10:00am - 12:00pm
World Bank J Building
Auditorium J1- 050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)
RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org REQUIRED
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Chair
Benno Ndulu
Regional Advisor, Africa Region, World Bank
Benno Ndulu is a Regional Advisor in the Africa region of the World Bank and
Manager of its Partnership program. Prior to that, he served as a Research
Manager for Bank-wide Research Support in the office of the World Bank?s Chief
Economist and Senior Vice President. He is best known for his involvement in
setting up and developing one of the most effective research and training
network in Africa, the African Economic Research Consortium. He served first as
its Research Director and later as its Executive Director. He received an
honorary doctorate from the ISS in the Hague in recognition of his contributions
to capacity building and research on Africa, and for his intellectual
contributions to the democratic change in South Africa. Following his Ph.D.
degree in economics from Northwestern University in Evanston in 1979, he taught
economics and published widely on growth, adjustment, governance and trade. He
has been involved in policy advisory roles world wide and has served in a wide
range of Boards in Tanzania and internationally.
Speakers
Aaditya Mattoo
Lead Economist, Development Economics, World Bank
Aaditya Mattoo is Lead Economist in the Development Research Group of the World
Bank. He is also leading a project on international trade in services,
specializes in trade policy analysis and the operation of the WTO, and is
helping enhance policy-making and negotiating capacity in developing countries.
Prior to joining the Bank in 1999, Mr. Mattoo was Economic Counsellor at the
Trade in Services Division, WTO, Geneva. He also served as Economic Affairs
Officer in the Economic Research and Analysis and Trade Policy Review Divisions
of the WTO. Mr. Mattoo has lectured in economics at the University of Sussex
and was lector at Churchill College, Cambridge University. Mr. Mattoo is an
Indian national and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from King?s College, University
of Cambridge, and an M.Phil in Economics from St. Edmund Hall, University of
Oxford. He has published widely in journals and edited several books.
Sam Maimbo
Senior Financial Sector Specialist, World Bank
Samuel Munzele Maimbo is a Senior Financial Sector Specialist in the World
Bank?s Africa Finance and Private Sector Unit. He has expertise in a range of
financial sector areas, having focused on developing, emerging, and
conflict-afflicted countries since the mid 1990s. Specific areas of focus have
included banking and financial sector, formal and informal remittance systems,
financial sector reforms in conflict affected countries, rural finance,
micro-finance, housing finance, and private sector development. A Rhodes
Scholar, Samuel obtained a PhD in Public Administration from the Institute for
Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester, England in
2001; a MBA (Finance) Degree from the University of Nottingham, England in 1998;
a Bachelor of Accountancy Degree (with Distinction) from the Copperbelt
University, Zambia in 1994. He is also a Fellow of the Association of Chartered
Certified Accountants (FCCA), United Kingdom and a Fellow of the Zambia
Institute of Certified Accountants (ZICA).
Charles Schlumberger
Senior Transport Specialist, World Bank
Charles Schlumberger, a Swiss national, is the Principal Air Transport
Specialist of the World Bank in Washington DC. In this function he is
responsible for the Bank?s policy and development priorities in the field of air
transport. He supervises or participates directly in several air transport
projects globally, which range from air transport infrastructure financing, air
carrier restructuring and/or privatization, air transport safety and security
projects, and air transport policy advice to governments. Prior to his
appointment to the World Bank in 1998, Mr. Schlumberger has held the position of
Vice-President at Union Bank of Switzerland, responsible for international
credit restructuring. Prior to his activities in financial institutions, he was
the CEO of a Logistics and Transport Group in France, and worked as a lawyer on
aviation related matters in Switzerland. Mr. Schlumberger graduated in 1986
with a Law Degree from Basel Law School, focusing on Aviation Law and Bankruptcy
Procedures, and he received in 1989 a MBA from the Harvard Business School. He
is also an active FAA and JAR licensed pilot and certified flight instructor.
Discussant
Gary Hufbauer
Reginald Jones Senior Fellow, Institute of International Economics
Gary Hufbauer Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at the Institute of International
Economics, was formerly the Marcus Wallenberg Professor of International Finance
Diplomacy at Georgetown University (1985?92), Deputy Director of the
International Law Institute at Georgetown University (1979?81); Deputy Assistant
Secretary for International Trade and Investment Policy of the US Treasury
(1977?79); and Director of the International Tax Staff at the Treasury
(1974?76). He has written extensively on international trade, investment, and
tax issues.
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