Reminder: "Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole" discussed at the InfoShop on May 7, 2007, 12:00-2:00pm in JB1-080

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cordially invites you to a book launch:
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| | Disturbing, provocative, and compelling, |
| | Consumed examines phenomena as seemingly |
| | disparate to show how the freedoms of the |
| | free market have undermined the freedoms of |
| | the deliberative adult citizen. With |
| | brilliance and depth, Barber confronts the |
| | likely consequences for our children, our |
| | liberty, and our citizenship, and shows |
| | finally how citizens can resist and overcome |
| | the "civic schizophrenia" in which our |
| | impulses as consumers are forever in conflict |
| | with our convictions as citizens. |
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Monday, May 7, 2007 from 12:00 - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building
Lower Level Auditorium JB1 - 080
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

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Author
Benjamin Barber
Benjamin Barber is a Professor at the University of Maryland, as
well as president and director of the international NGO CivWorld,
and its annual Interdependence Day event, and distinguished senior
fellow at Demos. An internationally renowned political theorist,
Mr. Barber brings an abiding concern for democracy and citizenship
to issues of politics, culture and education in America and abroad.
Mr. Barber consults regularly with political and civic leaders in
the United States and around the world.

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___________________________________________________________________________________________________

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center and development
bookstore of the World Bank. It functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters, providing internal and external
audiences access to over 6000 titles published by the World Bank,
other international organizations, and other publishers on
development issues. It is a space where information and documents
on World Bank development operations, economic data, and strategies,
can be read easily and comfortably at workstations designed for
public use. In addition, the InfoShop hosts book launches,
exhibits, seminars, receptions, and other community outreach events,
and also carries videos, posters, CD-ROMs, and gift items.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/InfoShop

Reminder: "Financing Cities: Fiscal Responsibility and Urban Infrastructure in Brazil China India Poland and South Africa"Monday, May 7, 2007 2:30 - 4:00 pm J Building JB1-080

InfoShop,Municipal Finance Thematic Group, Urban Development Team, Finance
Economics and Urban Development Departmentand Sustainable Development Network
cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent World Bank
publication
Financing Cities
Fiscal Responsibility and Urban Infrastructure
in Brazil, China, India, Poland and South Africa
Edited by George E. Peterson and Patricia Clarke Annez

Urbanization is not a side effect of economic growth; it is an integral part of
the process. While creating tremendous economic opportunities, urbanization
also makes demands for infrastructure investment that can unbalance government
budgets and stymie growth at the macro level. How can the goal of increasing
public investment in urban infrastructure be reconciled with the need for
prudent fiscal management?

Different countries have approached this challenge in different ways--from tight
central controls on local investment to decentralized fiscal choice. Their
experiences are recounted and assessed in this book--from the perspective both
of central government fiscal managers and local government officials who must
provide infrastructure services to their citizens. The chapters compare the
approaches taken by Brazil, China, India, Poland, and South Africa and examine
the fiscal implications of different infrastructure financing options. The book
offers a rare perspective on intergovernmental policy design and the politics of
policy implementation.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Monday, May 7, 2007
2:30 - 4:00 pm
World Bank J Building - Lower Level Auditorium JB1-080
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)
A reception will follow the presentation

Authors
George E. Peterson
Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
George E. Peterson is Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C.,
working on international public finance and intergovernmental relations.
Previously he has been Director of Public Finance Center at the Urban Institute,
where he directed the institute's programme in intergovernmental finance in the
United States. He is also the recipient of the Donald C. Stone Award for
intergovernmental management and research from American Society for Public
Management. He recently published Decentralisation in Asia and Latin America: A
Political and Economic Comparison.

Patricia Clarke Annez
Urban Advisor, World Bank
Patricia Clarke Annez is the Urban Advisor in the Finance Economics and Urban
Department at the World Bank. She has worked in World Bank?s Operations and
Finance Departments as well as the Research and Policy section of the Bank, and
has operational experience in South Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin
America. She was a member of the core team of the WDR 1992 on Development and
the Environment. As chief of the Urban Division, she managed the Bank?s
contributions to the Habitat II Conference in Istanbul in 1996. Ms. Annez is
now the head of the Municipal Finance Thematic Group. She has also worked as an
economic and financial advisor for ABB in Canada, and for US corporate clients
in New York.

Introduction
Katherine Sierra
Vice President & Head of Network, Sustainable Development Network, World Bank

Chair
Sonia Hammam
Sector Manager SASEI, World Bank

Speakers
Vijay Kelkar
Chairman, India Development Foundation and Non-executive Chairman,
IDFC-Asset Management Company
Dr. Vijay Kelkar is Chairman, India Development Foundation and Non-executive
Chairman of IDFC-Asset Management Company. Dr. Kelkar has held a number of high
level positions in the Government of India. Most recently, he was advisor to
the Minister of Finance of India, and Executive Director for India, Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh and Bhutan at the International Monetary Fund. Prior to that, Dr.
Kelkar was Finance Secretary; Chairman of the Tariff Commission; Secretary,
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Chairman, Bureau of Industrial Costs
and Prices, all in the Government of India. He has also served as the Chairman
of the Task Force for Implementation of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget
Management Act in the Ministry of Finance.

Rudolph G. Penner
Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
Rudolph G. Penner is a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, holding the Arjay
and Frances Miller chair in public policy. He was a Managing Director of the
Barents Group, was president of the American Tax Policy Institute in 2005 and
President of the National Economists Club. He received the Abramson Prize and
the prize for the best article published in 2002 in Public Budgeting and Finance
. He chaired a Commission on Metro Financing for the Washington Metropolitan
Area Council of Governments, and now chairs a Committee on the Future of the
Fuel Tax for the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of
Sciences. He has authored numerous books, pamphlets, articles and columns for
various newspapers including the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles
Times. His most recent book, co-authored with Isabel Sawhill and Timothy
Taylor, is Updating America's Social Contract.

Otaviano Canuto
Executive Director, World Bank
Mr. Otaviano Canuto dos Santos Filho, a Brazilian, is an Executive Director on
the Boards of the World Bank Group. Mr. Canuto came to the World Bank Group
from the Ministry of Finance, Brazil, where he served as the Director of
International Affairs. He joined the Ministry of Finance in 2003 following a
distinguished academic career, and is still a licensed Professor of Economics
at the University of Sao Paulo. Mr. Canuto is the author of numerous research
publications on a wide range of topics in economics and finance. Mr. Canuto was
also a columnist for two Brazilian newspapers: O Estado de Sao Paulo and Valor
Economico. Mr. Canuto has a Ph.D. in Economics from the State University of
Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil, a Master?s degree in Economics from
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, and a Bachelor?s degree in Economics
from the Federal University of Sergipe, Aracaju-SE, Brazil.

Robert D. Ebel
Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Chief Economist,
District of Columbia Government
Robert D. Ebel is Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Chief Economist for the
Washington DC government. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the
Local Government and Public Sector Service Initiative (Open Society
Institute/Budapest) and of the Panel of Experts of the Fiscal Affairs Division
of the International Monetary Fund. He was a Senior Fellow at the joint Urban
Institute/Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center and Lead Economist in the
World Bank Institute. He served as the World Bank?s technical representative to
the Sudan Peace Consultations, and for the African Union as a resource person at
the Inter-Sudanese Peace Consultations on Darfur. He has published widely and
been a regular columnist for two major US newspapers, the Honolulu Advertiser
and the St. Paul Pioneer Press/Dispatch. He is the recipient of the Steven D.
Gold Award and the World Bank Award for Excellence.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center and development bookstore of the
World Bank. It functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters,
providing internal and external audiences access to over 6000 titles published
by the World Bank, other international organizations, and other publishers on
development issues. It is a space where information and documents on World Bank
development operations, economic data, and strategies, can be read easily and
comfortably at workstations designed for public use. In addition, the InfoShop
hosts book launches, exhibits, seminars, receptions, and other community
outreach events, and also carries videos, posters, CD-ROMs, and gift items.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Reminder: "Financing Cities: Fiscal Responsibility and Urban Infrastructure in Brazil China India Poland and South Africa"Monday, May 7, 2007 2:30 - 4:00 pm J Building JB1-080

(Embedded image moved to file: pic17650.gif) & (Embedded image moved to
file: pic13290.jpg)

Urban Development Team, Finance Economics and Urban Development
Department,
and Sustainable Development Network
cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent World
Bank publication
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| | |
| | |
| | Financing Cities |
| | Fiscal Responsibility and Urban Infrastructure |
| | in Brazil, China, India, Poland and South |
| | Africa |
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| to file: pic03335.jpg) | Clarke Annez |
| | |
| | Urbanization is not a side effect of economic |
| | growth; it is an integral part of the process. |
| | While creating tremendous economic |
| | opportunities, urbanization also makes demands |
| | for infrastructure investment that can |
| | unbalance government budgets and stymie growth |
| | at the macro level. How can the goal of |
| | increasing public investment in urban |
| | infrastructure be reconciled with the need for |
| | prudent fiscal management? |
| | |
| | Different countries have approached this |
| | challenge in different ways--from tight central |
| | controls on local investment to decentralized |
| | fiscal choice. Their experiences are recounted |
| | and assessed in this book--from the perspective |
| | both of central government fiscal managers and |
| | local government officials who must provide |
| | infrastructure services to their citizens. The |
| | chapters compare the approaches taken by |
| | Brazil, China, India, Poland, and South Africa |
| | and examine the fiscal implications of |
| | different infrastructure financing options. |
| | The book offers a rare perspective on |
| | intergovernmental policy design and the |
| | politics of policy implementation. |
| | |
| | |
| | |
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| | |
| | |
| Monday, May 7, 2007 | |
| 2:30 - 4:00 pm | |
| World Bank J Building | |
| - Lower Level | |
| Auditorium JB1-080 | |
| (701 18th St. NW | |
| corner of 18th St. and | |
| Pennsylvania Ave.) | |
| A reception will | |
| follow the | |
| presentation | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
|--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|

Authors
George E. Peterson
Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
George E. Peterson is Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute in
Washington, D.C., working on international public finance and
intergovernmental relations. Previously he has been Director of
Public Finance Center at the Urban Institute, where he directed the
institute's programme in intergovernmental finance in the United
States. He is also the recipient of the Donald C. Stone Award for
intergovernmental management and research from American Society for
Public Management. He recently published Decentralisation in Asia
and Latin America: A Political and Economic Comparison.

Patricia Clarke Annez
Urban Advisor, World Bank
Patricia Clarke Annez is the Urban Advisor in the Finance Economics
and Urban Department at the World Bank. She has worked in World
Bank?s Operations and Finance Departments as well as the Research
and Policy section of the Bank, and has operational experience in
South Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. She was a
member of the core team of the WDR 1992 on Development and the
Environment. As chief of the Urban Division, she managed the Bank?s
contributions to the Habitat II Conference in Istanbul in 1996. Ms.
Annez is now the head of the Municipal Finance Thematic Group. She
has also worked as an economic and financial advisor for ABB in
Canada, and for US corporate clients in New York.

Introduction
Katherine Sierra
Vice President & Head of Network, Sustainable Development Network,
World Bank

Chair
Sonia Hammam
Sector Manager SASEI, World Bank

Speakers
Vijay Kelkar
Chairman, India Development Foundation and Non-executive Chairman,
IDFC-Asset Management Company
Dr. Vijay Kelkar is Chairman, India Development Foundation and
Non-executive Chairman of IDFC-Asset Management Company. Dr. Kelkar
has held a number of high level positions in the Government of
India. Most recently, he was advisor to the Minister of Finance of
India, and Executive Director for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and
Bhutan at the International Monetary Fund. Prior to that, Dr.
Kelkar was Finance Secretary; Chairman of the Tariff Commission;
Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Chairman,
Bureau of Industrial Costs and Prices, all in the Government of
India. He has also served as the Chairman of the Task Force for
Implementation of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management
Act in the Ministry of Finance.

Rudolph G. Penner
Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
Rudolph G. Penner is a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, holding
the Arjay and Frances Miller chair in public policy. He was a
Managing Director of the Barents Group, was president of the
American Tax Policy Institute in 2005 and President of the National
Economists Club. He received the Abramson Prize and the prize for
the best article published in 2002 in Public Budgeting and Finance.
He chaired a Commission on Metro Financing for the Washington
Metropolitan Area Council of Governments, and now chairs a Committee
on the Future of the Fuel Tax for the Transportation Research Board
of the National Academy of Sciences. He has authored numerous
books, pamphlets, articles and columns for various newspapers
including the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.
His most recent book, co-authored with Isabel Sawhill and Timothy
Taylor, is Updating America's Social Contract.

Otaviano Canuto
Executive Director, World Bank
Mr. Otaviano Canuto dos Santos Filho, a Brazilian, is an Executive
Director on the Boards of the World Bank Group. Mr. Canuto came to
the World Bank Group from the Ministry of Finance, Brazil, where he
served as the Director of International Affairs. He joined the
Ministry of Finance in 2003 following a distinguished academic
career, and is still a licensed Professor of Economics at the
University of Sao Paulo. Mr. Canuto is the author of numerous
research publications on a wide range of topics in economics and
finance. Mr. Canuto was also a columnist for two Brazilian
newspapers: O Estado de Sao Paulo and Valor Economico. Mr. Canuto
has a Ph.D. in Economics from the State University of Campinas
(UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil, a Master?s degree in Economics from
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, and a Bachelor?s degree in
Economics from the Federal University of Sergipe, Aracaju-SE,
Brazil.

Robert D. Ebel
Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Chief Economist,
District of Columbia Government
Robert D. Ebel is Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Chief Economist
for the Washington DC government. He is also a member of the
Steering Committee of the Local Government and Public Sector Service
Initiative (Open Society Institute/Budapest) and of the Panel of
Experts of the Fiscal Affairs Division of the International Monetary
Fund. He was a Senior Fellow at the joint Urban Institute/Brookings
Institution Tax Policy Center and Lead Economist in the World Bank
Institute. He served as the World Bank?s technical representative
to the Sudan Peace Consultations, and for the African Union as a
resource person at the Inter-Sudanese Peace Consultations on Darfur.
He has published widely and been a regular columnist for two major
US newspapers, the Honolulu Advertiser and the St. Paul Pioneer
Press/Dispatch. He is the recipient of the Steven D. Gold Award and
the World Bank Award for Excellence.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center and development
bookstore of the World Bank. It functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters, providing internal and external
audiences access to over 6000 titles published by the World Bank,
other international organizations, and other publishers on
development issues. It is a space where information and documents
on World Bank development operations, economic data, and strategies,
can be read easily and comfortably at workstations designed for
public use. In addition, the InfoShop hosts book launches,
exhibits, seminars, receptions, and other community outreach events,
and also carries videos, posters, CD-ROMs, and gift items.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

"Financing Cities: Fiscal Responsibility and Urban Infrastructure in Brazil China India Poland and South Africa" Monday, May 7 2007 2:30 - 4:00 pm J Building JB1-080

InfoShop, Municipal Finance Thematic Group, Urban Development Team, Finance
Economics and Urban Development Department, and Sustainable Development Network
cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent World Bank
publication

Fiscal Responsibility and Urban Infrastructure
in Brazil, China, India, Poland and South Africa
Edited by George E. Peterson and Patricia Clarke Annez

Urbanization is not a side effect of economic growth; it is an integral part of
the process. While creating tremendous economic opportunities, urbanization
also makes demands for infrastructure investment that can unbalance government
budgets and stymie growth at the macro level. How can the goal of increasing
public investment in urban infrastructure be reconciled with the need for
prudent fiscal management?

Different countries have approached this challenge in different ways--from tight
central controls on local investment to decentralized fiscal choice. Their
experiences are recounted and assessed in this book--from the perspective both
of central government fiscal managers and local government officials who must
provide infrastructure services to their citizens.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Monday, May 7, 2007
2:30 - 4:00 pm
World Bank J Building - Lower Level Auditorium JB1-080
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

A reception will follow the presentation.

RSVP REQUIRED - PHOTO I.D. REQUIRED

Please send an email to infoshopevents@worldbank.org
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Authors
George E. Peterson
Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
George E. Peterson is Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C.,
working on international public finance and intergovernmental relations.
Previously he has been Director of Public Finance Center at the Urban Institute,
where he directed the institute's programme in intergovernmental finance in the
United States. He is also the recipient of the Donald C. Stone Award for
intergovernmental management and research from American Society for Public
Management. He recently published Decentralisation in Asia and Latin America: A
Political and Economic Comparison.

Patricia Clarke Annez
Urban Advisor, World Bank
Patricia Clarke Annez is the Urban Advisor in the Finance Economics and Urban
Department at the World Bank. She has worked in World Bank?s Operations and
Finance Departments as well as the Research and Policy section of the Bank, and
has operational experience in South Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin
America. She was a member of the core team of the WDR 1992 on Development and
the Environment. As chief of the Urban Division, she managed the Bank?s
contributions to the Habitat II Conference in Istanbul in 1996. Ms. Annez is
now the head of the Municipal Finance Thematic Group. She has also worked as an
economic and financial advisor for ABB in Canada, and for US corporate clients
in New York.

Introduction
Katherine Sierra
Vice President & Head of Network, Sustainable Development Network, World Bank

Chair
Sonia Hammam
Sector Manager SASEI, World Bank

Speakers
Vijay Kelkar
Chairman, India Development Foundation and Non-executive Chairman,
IDFC-Asset Management Company
Dr. Vijay Kelkar is Chairman, India Development Foundation and Non-executive
Chairman of IDFC-Asset Management Company. Dr. Kelkar has held a number of high
level positions in the Government of India. Most recently, he was advisor to
the Minister of Finance of India, and Executive Director for India, Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh and Bhutan at the International Monetary Fund. Prior to that, Dr.
Kelkar was Finance Secretary; Chairman of the Tariff Commission; Secretary,
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Chairman, Bureau of Industrial Costs
and Prices, all in the Government of India. He has also served as the Chairman
of the Task Force for Implementation of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget
Management Act in the Ministry of Finance.

Rudolph G. Penner
Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
Rudolph G. Penner is a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, holding the Arjay
and Frances Miller chair in public policy. He was a Managing Director of the
Barents Group, was president of the American Tax Policy Institute in 2005 and
President of the National Economists Club. He received the Abramson Prize and
the prize for the best article published in 2002 in Public Budgeting and
Finance. He chaired a Commission on Metro Financing for the Washington
Metropolitan Area Council of Governments, and now chairs a Committee on the
Future of the Fuel Tax for the Transportation Research Board of the National
Academy of Sciences. He has authored numerous books, pamphlets, articles and
columns for various newspapers including the New York Times, Washington Post and
Los Angeles Times. His most recent book, co-authored with Isabel Sawhill and
Timothy Taylor, is Updating America's Social Contract.

Otaviano Canuto
Executive Director, World Bank
Mr. Otaviano Canuto dos Santos Filho, a Brazilian, is an Executive Director on
the Boards of the World Bank Group. Mr. Canuto came to the World Bank Group
from the Ministry of Finance, Brazil, where he served as the Director of
International Affairs. He joined the Ministry of Finance in 2003 following a
distinguished academic career, and is still a licensed Professor of Economics
at the University of Sao Paulo. Mr. Canuto is the author of numerous research
publications on a wide range of topics in economics and finance. Mr. Canuto was
also a columnist for two Brazilian newspapers: O Estado de Sao Paulo and Valor
Economico. Mr. Canuto has a Ph.D. in Economics from the State University of
Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil, a Master?s degree in Economics from
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, and a Bachelor?s degree in Economics
from the Federal University of Sergipe, Aracaju-SE, Brazil.

Robert D. Ebel
Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Chief Economist,
District of Columbia Government
Robert D. Ebel is Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Chief Economist for the
Washington DC government. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the
Local Government and Public Sector Service Initiative (Open Society
Institute/Budapest) and of the Panel of Experts of the Fiscal Affairs Division
of the International Monetary Fund. He was a Senior Fellow at the joint Urban
Institute/Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center and Lead Economist in the
World Bank Institute. He served as the World Bank?s technical representative to
the Sudan Peace Consultations, and for the African Union as a resource person at
the Inter-Sudanese Peace Consultations on Darfur. He has published widely and
been a regular columnist for two major US newspapers, the Honolulu Advertiser
and the St. Paul Pioneer Press/Dispatch. He is the recipient of the Steven D.
Gold Award and the World Bank Award for Excellence.

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center and development bookstore of the
World Bank. It functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters,
providing internal and external audiences access to over 6000 titles published
by the World Bank, other international organizations, and other publishers on
development issues. It is a space where information and documents on World Bank
development operations, economic data, and strategies, can be read easily and
comfortably at workstations designed for public use. In addition, the InfoShop
hosts book launches, exhibits, seminars, receptions, and other community
outreach events, and also carries videos, posters, CD-ROMs, and gift items.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

"Financing Cities:Fiscal Responsibility and Urban Infrastructure in Brazil China India Poland and South Africa"Monday, May 7, 2007 2:30 - 4:00 pm J Building JB1-080

(Embedded image moved to file: pic16343.jpg)
& (Embedded image moved to file: pic00754.jpg)

Urban Development Team, Finance Economics and Urban Development
Department,
and Sustainable Development Network
cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent World
Bank publication
|--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|
| | |
| | |
| | Financing Cities |
| | Fiscal Responsibility and Urban Infrastructure |
| | in Brazil, China, India, Poland and South |
| | Africa |
| (Embedded image moved | Edited by George E. Peterson and Patricia |
| to file: pic02481.jpg) | Clarke Annez |
| | |
| | Urbanization is not a side effect of economic |
| | growth; it is an integral part of the process. |
| | While creating tremendous economic |
| | opportunities, urbanization also makes demands |
| | for infrastructure investment that can |
| | unbalance government budgets and stymie growth |
| | at the macro level. How can the goal of |
| | increasing public investment in urban |
| | infrastructure be reconciled with the need for |
| | prudent fiscal management? |
| | |
| | Different countries have approached this |
| | challenge in different ways--from tight central |
| | controls on local investment to decentralized |
| | fiscal choice. Their experiences are recounted |
| | and assessed in this book--from the perspective |
| | both of central government fiscal managers and |
| | local government officials who must provide |
| | infrastructure services to their citizens. The |
| | chapters compare the approaches taken by |
| | Brazil, China, India, Poland, and South Africa |
| | and examine the fiscal implications of |
| | different infrastructure financing options. |
| | The book offers a rare perspective on |
| | intergovernmental policy design and the |
| | politics of policy implementation. |
| | |
| | |
| | |
|--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|
| | |
| | |
| Monday, May 7, 2007 | |
| 2:30 - 4:00 pm | |
| World Bank J Building | |
| - Lower Level | |
| Auditorium JB1-080 | |
| (701 18th St. NW | |
| corner of 18th St. and | |
| Pennsylvania Ave.) | |
| A reception will | |
| follow the | |
| presentation | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
|--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------|

Authors
George E. Peterson
Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
George E. Peterson is Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute in
Washington, D.C., working on international public finance and
intergovernmental relations. Previously he has been Director of
Public Finance Center at the Urban Institute, where he directed the
institute's programme in intergovernmental finance in the United
States. He is also the recipient of the Donald C. Stone Award for
intergovernmental management and research from American Society for
Public Management. He recently published Decentralisation in Asia
and Latin America: A Political and Economic Comparison.

Patricia Clarke Annez
Urban Advisor, World Bank
Patricia Clarke Annez is the Urban Advisor in the Finance Economics
and Urban Department at the World Bank. She has worked in World
Bank?s Operations and Finance Departments as well as the Research
and Policy section of the Bank, and has operational experience in
South Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. She was a
member of the core team of the WDR 1992 on Development and the
Environment. As chief of the Urban Division, she managed the Bank?s
contributions to the Habitat II Conference in Istanbul in 1996. Ms.
Annez is now the head of the Municipal Finance Thematic Group. She
has also worked as an economic and financial advisor for ABB in
Canada, and for US corporate clients in New York.

Introduction
Katherine Sierra
Vice President & Head of Network, Sustainable Development Network,
World Bank

Chair
Sonia Hammam
Sector Manager SASEI, World Bank

Speakers
Vijay Kelkar
Chairman, India Development Foundation and Non-executive Chairman,
IDFC-Asset Management Company
Dr. Vijay Kelkar is Chairman, India Development Foundation and
Non-executive Chairman of IDFC-Asset Management Company. Dr. Kelkar
has held a number of high level positions in the Government of
India. Most recently, he was advisor to the Minister of Finance of
India, and Executive Director for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and
Bhutan at the International Monetary Fund. Prior to that, Dr.
Kelkar was Finance Secretary; Chairman of the Tariff Commission;
Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Chairman,
Bureau of Industrial Costs and Prices, all in the Government of
India. He has also served as the Chairman of the Task Force for
Implementation of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management
Act in the Ministry of Finance.

Rudolph G. Penner
Senior Fellow, Urban Institute
Rudolph G. Penner is a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, holding
the Arjay and Frances Miller chair in public policy. He was a
Managing Director of the Barents Group, was president of the
American Tax Policy Institute in 2005 and President of the National
Economists Club. He received the Abramson Prize and the prize for
the best article published in 2002 in Public Budgeting and Finance.
He chaired a Commission on Metro Financing for the Washington
Metropolitan Area Council of Governments, and now chairs a Committee
on the Future of the Fuel Tax for the Transportation Research Board
of the National Academy of Sciences. He has authored numerous
books, pamphlets, articles and columns for various newspapers
including the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.
His most recent book, co-authored with Isabel Sawhill and Timothy
Taylor, is Updating America's Social Contract.

Otaviano Canuto
Executive Director, World Bank
Mr. Otaviano Canuto dos Santos Filho, a Brazilian, is an Executive
Director on the Boards of the World Bank Group. Mr. Canuto came to
the World Bank Group from the Ministry of Finance, Brazil, where he
served as the Director of International Affairs. He joined the
Ministry of Finance in 2003 following a distinguished academic
career, and is still a licensed Professor of Economics at the
University of Sao Paulo. Mr. Canuto is the author of numerous
research publications on a wide range of topics in economics and
finance. Mr. Canuto was also a columnist for two Brazilian
newspapers: O Estado de Sao Paulo and Valor Economico. Mr. Canuto
has a Ph.D. in Economics from the State University of Campinas
(UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil, a Master?s degree in Economics from
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, and a Bachelor?s degree in
Economics from the Federal University of Sergipe, Aracaju-SE,
Brazil.

Robert D. Ebel
Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Chief Economist,
District of Columbia Government
Robert D. Ebel is Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Chief Economist
for the Washington DC government. He is also a member of the
Steering Committee of the Local Government and Public Sector Service
Initiative (Open Society Institute/Budapest) and of the Panel of
Experts of the Fiscal Affairs Division of the International Monetary
Fund. He was a Senior Fellow at the joint Urban Institute/Brookings
Institution Tax Policy Center and Lead Economist in the World Bank
Institute. He served as the World Bank?s technical representative
to the Sudan Peace Consultations, and for the African Union as a
resource person at the Inter-Sudanese Peace Consultations on Darfur.
He has published widely and been a regular columnist for two major
US newspapers, the Honolulu Advertiser and the St. Paul Pioneer
Press/Dispatch. He is the recipient of the Steven D. Gold Award and
the World Bank Award for Excellence.

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About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center and development
bookstore of the World Bank. It functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters, providing internal and external
audiences access to over 6000 titles published by the World Bank,
other international organizations, and other publishers on
development issues. It is a space where information and documents
on World Bank development operations, economic data, and strategies,
can be read easily and comfortably at workstations designed for
public use. In addition, the InfoShop hosts book launches,
exhibits, seminars, receptions, and other community outreach events,
and also carries videos, posters, CD-ROMs, and gift items.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

"Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole" discussed at the InfoShop on May 7, 2007, 12:00-2:00pm in JB1-080

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cordially invites you to a book launch:
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| | Disturbing, provocative, and compelling, |
| | Consumed examines phenomena as seemingly |
| | disparate to show how the freedoms of the |
| | free market have undermined the freedoms of |
| | the deliberative adult citizen. With |
| | brilliance and depth, Barber confronts the |
| | likely consequences for our children, our |
| | liberty, and our citizenship, and shows |
| | finally how citizens can resist and overcome |
| | the "civic schizophrenia" in which our |
| | impulses as consumers are forever in conflict |
| | with our convictions as citizens. |
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Monday, May 7, 2007 from 12:00 - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building
Lower Level Auditorium JB1 - 080
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

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Author
Benjamin Barber
Benjamin Barber is a Professor at the University of Maryland, as
well as president and director of the international NGO CivWorld,
and its annual Interdependence Day event, and distinguished senior
fellow at Demos. An internationally renowned political theorist,
Mr. Barber brings an abiding concern for democracy and citizenship
to issues of politics, culture and education in America and abroad.
Mr. Barber consults regularly with political and civic leaders in
the United States and around the world.

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About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center and development
bookstore of the World Bank. It functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters, providing internal and external
audiences access to over 6000 titles published by the World Bank,
other international organizations, and other publishers on
development issues. It is a space where information and documents
on World Bank development operations, economic data, and strategies,
can be read easily and comfortably at workstations designed for
public use. In addition, the InfoShop hosts book launches,
exhibits, seminars, receptions, and other community outreach events,
and also carries videos, posters, CD-ROMs, and gift items.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/InfoShop

REMINDER: Israeli & Palestinian Exhibit and Presentation "Offering Reconciliation" at Preston May 2, 2007, 12:00pm RSVP REQUIRED

The InfoShop, The Art Program, and the Middle East and North Africa Region,
World Bank
cordially invite you to attend the launch of the MC atrium exhibit:
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| | Each artist?s rendering reflects |
| "O F F E R I N G R E C O N C I L | stunningly diverse feelings of |
| I A T I O N" | pain, hope, fracture and unity, |
| | reconciliation and peace in the |
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| | Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, |
| MC Atrium exhibit will run from | Dani Karavan, Mohammad Said Kalash, |
| April 30, 2007-May 5, 2007 | Hanan Abu Hussein. |
| Made possible by a generous | |
| donation from James Wolfensohn | Offering Reconciliation is an |
| | exhibit of 135 ceramic plates |
| | created by prominent Israeli and |
| | Palestinian painters, sculptors, |
| | designers and photographers. |
| | Participating artists were given an |
| | identical blank ceramic bowl |
| | through which individual |
| | expressions of pain and hope would |
| | be depicted. |
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| PALESTINIAN SPEAKERS | |
| MAY 2, 2007 | |
| 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM | |
| Main Complex Bldg * PRESTON | |
| AUDITORIUM | |
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? The Parents Circle?s work is praiseworthy. They unite hundreds of Israeli and
Palestinian families who have lost loved ones as a result of the Arab Israeli
conflict.Better than anyone, these families understand the cost of the
continuing violence in the Middle East and they work to end the fighting through
peaceful means.?
Bill Clinton, July 22, 2005
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OPENING INTRODUCTION
by Middle East North Africa Region Spokesperson

PARENTS CIRCLE SPEAKERS
Robi Damelin
Robi Damelin lives in Tel Aviv. She immigrated from South Africa in 1967. Robi?s
son, David, was killed by a sniper while on military reserve duty, in March
2002. David was 28 years old, and was studying for his Masters Degree in the
Philosophy of Education at the Tel-Aviv University. After David?s death , Robi
felt a burning need to do something to try and prevent other parents from
experiencing the dreadful pain of losing a child. She closed her succesful
Public Relations firm to devote her entire time and energy to the Parents Circle
? Families Forum and its activities promoting dialogue, tolerance and
reconciliation.

Ali Abu Awad
Ali Abu Awwad is a resident of Beit Ummar, Hebron, where his family relocated in
1948. Ali grew up in a politically active family and was active in resisting the
Israeli occupation during the first intifada (Palestinian uprising). He was
arrested for his political activities and served four years of the 10 he was
sentenced until his release following the Oslo accords. During the second
intifada, Ali was shot by an Israeli settler and was hospitalized in Saudi
Arabia. While there, he received the grave news that his brother had been shot
and killed by an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint at the entrance to their
village. Ali and other members of his family later joined the Bereaved Families
Forum where they are active in spreading a message of reconciliation and
non-violence to Palestinians and Israelis.

For more information about the exhibition, please also visit:
http://www.theparentscircle.com/exhibition/
For more information about the Parents Circle Family Forum, please visit
http://www.theparentscircle.com/

Sponsored by the Parents Circle, the Foundation for Middle East Peace, James
Wolfensohn, the Middle East North Africa Region, the Art Program, and the
InfoShop

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About the Parents Circle Family Forum
The PARENTS CIRCLE ? BEREAVED FAMILES FORUM for Peace, Reconciliation and
Tolerance is home for hundreds of bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families who
have chosen a path of reconciliation rather than revenge in order to prevent
other families from experiencing their terrible pain. They have chosen to
convert the feelings of anger and revenge, helplessness and despair, into
energies of hope and action, as messengers of a process of reconciliation.
Members of the forum conduct intensive educational, public, and media activities
to promote the path of reconciliation.
www.theparentscircle.com

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center and development bookstore of the
World Bank. It functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters,
providing internal and external audiences access to over 6000 titles published
by the World Bank, other international organizations, and other publishers on
development issues. It is a space where information and documents on World Bank
development operations, economic data, and strategies, can be read easily and
comfortably at workstations designed for public use. In addition, the InfoShop
hosts book launches, exhibits, seminars, receptions, and other community
outreach events, and also carries videos, posters, CD-ROMs, and gift items.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop