Limits to Liberalization: Local Culture in a Global Marketplace on May 22, 2007, 3:00-5:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop and Cultural Heritage Thematic Group
cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent Cornell University
Press publication

Limits to Liberalization: Local Culture in a Global Marketplace
by Patricia M. Goff

The culture industries are noteworthy exceptions to the rhetorical commitment of
Western countries to free trade as a major goal. Patricia Goff traces the
rationale for "cultural protectionism" in trade policies of Canada, France, and
the European Union. The result is a larger understanding of the forces that
shape international trade agreements and a book that speaks to current
theoretical concerns about national identity as it plays out in politics and
international relations.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
3:00 - 5:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)
Cookies and Coffee will be served

Moderator
Mark Woodward
Senior Social Development Specialist, Sustainable Development Department, Europe
and Central Asia Region, World Bank
Mark Woodward is a Senior Social Development Specialist in the World Bank's
Europe and Central Asia Region where he has been working on a variety of issue
areas including mobilizing cultural heritage in support of sustainable
development, notably in the Balkans and the South Caucasus. Mr. Woodward has a
Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University.

Author
Patricia Goff
Associate Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University and
Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation
Patricia Goff specializes in International Political Economy and International
Relations Theory. She holds an Honours
B.A. in French and Political Science from the University of Western Ontario, an
M.A. in French Literature from McMaster
University, a Diplôme d?études approfondies in Comparative Politics from the
University of Paris, and a Ph.D. in
Political Science from Northwestern University. She is co-editor with Kevin C.
Dunn of Identity and Global Politics
(Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2004) and co-editor with Paul Heinbecker of
Irrelevant or Indispensable: the United Nations
in the 21st Century (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005).

Commentary
JP Singh
Assistant professor in the Communication, Culture and Technology Program at
Georgetown University
J. P. Singh is a professor and an Editor of Research Policy Review. Mr. Singh
authored Leapfrogging Development? The Political Economy of Telecommunications
Restructuring and co-edited (with James N. Rosenau) Information Technologies and
Global Politics. His current book project is titled Negotiating the Global
Information Economy. He has authored nearly thirty journal articles and book
chapters. He is Chair of the Science, Technology and Environmental Politics
section of the American Political Science Association; President of the
International Communication Section of the International Studies Association;
and Vice President of the Policy Studies Organization.

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
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Limits to Liberalization: Local Culture in a Global Marketplace on May 22, 2007, 3:00-5:00pm in J1-050

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and Cultural Heritage Thematic Group
cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent
Cornell University Press publication
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| | Limits to Liberalization: |
| | Local Culture in a Global |
| | Marketplace |
| | by Patricia M. Goff |
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| file: pic14218.jpg) | The culture industries are |
| | noteworthy exceptions to the |
| | rhetorical commitment of Western |
| | countries to free trade as a major |
| | goal. Patricia Goff traces the |
| | rationale for "cultural |
| | protectionism" in trade policies of |
| | Canada, France, and the European |
| | Union. The result is a larger |
| | understanding of the forces that |
| | shape international trade agreements |
| | and a book that speaks to current |
| | theoretical concerns about national |
| | identity as it plays out in politics |
| | and international relations. |
| | |
| | Tuesday, May 22, 2007 |
| | 3:00 - 5:00pm |
| | World Bank J Building, Auditorium |
| | J1-050 |
| | (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. |
| | and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| | Cookies and Coffee will be served |
| | |
| | |
| | |
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Moderator
Mark Woodward
Senior Social Development Specialist, Sustainable Development Department, Europe
and Central Asia Region, World Bank
Mark Woodward is a Senior Social Development Specialist in the World
Bank's Europe and Central Asia Region where he has been working on a
variety of issue areas including mobilizing cultural heritage in
support of sustainable development, notably in the Balkans and the
South Caucasus. Mr. Woodward has a Ph.D. in Political Science from
Stanford University.

Author
Patricia Goff
Associate Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier
University and
Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation
Patricia Goff specializes in International Political Economy and
International Relations Theory. She holds an Honours
B.A. in French and Political Science from the University of Western
Ontario, an M.A. in French Literature from McMaster
University, a Diplôme d?études approfondies in Comparative Politics
from the University of Paris, and a Ph.D. in
Political Science from Northwestern University. She is co-editor
with Kevin C. Dunn of Identity and Global Politics
(Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2004) and co-editor with Paul Heinbecker
of Irrelevant or Indispensable: the United Nations
in the 21st Century (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005).

Commentary
JP Singh
Assistant professor in the Communication, Culture and Technology
Program at Georgetown University
J. P. Singh is a professor and an Editor of Research Policy Review.
Mr. Singh authored Leapfrogging Development? The Political Economy
of Telecommunications Restructuring and co-edited (with James N.
Rosenau) Information Technologies and Global Politics. His current
book project is titled Negotiating the Global Information Economy.
He has authored nearly thirty journal articles and book chapters.
He is Chair of the Science, Technology and Environmental Politics
section of the American Political Science Association; President of
the International Communication Section of the International Studies
Association; and Vice President of the Policy Studies Organization.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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

"Services Trade and Development: The Experience of Zambia" on May 22, 2007 at 10:00 am in J1-050

Infoshop and Development Economics Research Group, World Bank
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.

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

"Services Trade and Development: The Experience of Zambia" on May 22, 2007 at 10:00 am in J1-050

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and
Development Economics Research Group, World Bank
cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent a
Palgrave Macmillan and World Bank publication
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| Services Trade and Development: |
| The Experience of Zambia |
| Edited by Aaditya Mattoo and Lucy Payton |
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| 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. |
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| | (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and |
| | Pennsylvania Ave.) |
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| | |
| | Copies of the executive |
| | summary will be available at the launch |
| | For more information or to |
| | buy this book, visit |
| | Services Trade and Development: |
| | The Experience of Zambia |
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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.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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

Invitation: Humor at Work - Come share a laugh with Queen Aishah on May 22 at 12 in JB1-080

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Humor at Work - Come share a laugh with Queen Aishah on May 22 at 12 in JB1-080

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Invitation: Launch of the WIDER study: "Impact of Globalization on the World's Poor" on May 16 from 3:30 to 5:00 pm at Brookings Institution

InfoShop and The Brookings Institution
Invite you to a discussion featuring a recent publication
Impact of Globalization on the World's Poor
by Carol Graham, Machico Nissanke, Erik Thorbecke and Nancy Birdsall

Globalization offers new opportunities for accelerating development and poverty
reduction, but also poses new challenges for policymakers. And there is much
concern about the distribution of benefits; in particular whether the poor gain
from globalization, and under what circumstances it may actually hurt them.

To meet this important agenda, World Institute for Development Economics
Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) has sought to provide a
framework upon which to build strategies for ?pro-poor globalization?. The
research is particularly focussed in understanding better the mechanisms through
which globalization ultimately affects poverty, evaluating how different poor
groups are affected in different ways by globalization (the rural versus urban
poor for example).

The speakers are the directors and authors of the WIDER Study on the Impact of
Globalization on the World?s Poor and will discuss the main findings of the
research in relation to current issues.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Wednesday,May 16, 2007
3:30 p.m. ? 5:00 p.m.
Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
RSVP: Please call the Brookings office of Communications at 202-797-6105
Reception to Follow
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
CHAIRPERSON

Carol Graham is Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings
Institution, where she co-directs the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics,
and Professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland.

SPEAKERS

Machico Nissanke is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London, UK. She previously worked at Birkbeck College,
University College London and the University of Oxford, and was also Research
Fellow of Nuffield College and the Overseas Development Institute.

Erik Thorbecke is the H.E. Babcock Professor of Economics Emeritus, Graduate
School Professor and former Director of the Program on Comparative Economic
Development at Cornell University, USA.

DISCUSSANT

Nancy Birdsall is the founding President of the Center of Global Development.
Prior to launching the Center, she was Senior Associate and Director of the
Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Earlier Nancy Birdsall was Executive Vice-President of the Inter-American
Development Bank.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

Invitation: Launch of the WIDER study: "Impact of Globalization on the World's Poor" on May 16 from 3:30 to 5:00 pm at Brookings Institution

(Embedded image moved to file: pic28022.gif)
and
The Brookings Institution
Invite you to a discussion featuring a recent publication
Impact of Globalization on the World's Poor
by Carol Graham, Machico Nissanke, Erik Thorbecke and Nancy
Birdsall

Globalization offers new opportunities for accelerating development
and poverty reduction, but also poses new challenges for
policymakers. And there is much concern about the distribution of
benefits; in particular whether the poor gain from globalization,
and under what circumstances it may actually hurt them.

To meet this important agenda, World Institute for Development
Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) has
sought to provide a framework upon which to build strategies for
?pro-poor globalization?. The research is particularly focussed in
understanding better the mechanisms through which globalization
ultimately affects poverty, evaluating how different poor groups are
affected in different ways by globalization (the rural versus urban
poor for example).

The speakers are the directors and authors of the WIDER Study on the
Impact of Globalization on the World?s Poor and will discuss the
main findings of the research in relation to current issues.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Wednesday,May 16, 2007
3:30 p.m. ? 5:00 p.m.
Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
RSVP: Please call the Brookings office of Communications at
202-797-6105
Reception to Follow
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
CHAIRPERSON

Carol Graham is Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the
Brookings Institution, where she co-directs the Center on Social and
Economic Dynamics, and Professor in the School of Public Policy at
the University of Maryland.

SPEAKERS

Machico Nissanke is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental
and African Studies, University of London, UK. She previously worked
at Birkbeck College, University College London and the University of
Oxford, and was also Research Fellow of Nuffield College and the
Overseas Development Institute.

Erik Thorbecke is the H.E. Babcock Professor of Economics Emeritus,
Graduate School Professor and former Director of the Program on
Comparative Economic Development at Cornell University, USA.

DISCUSSANT

Nancy Birdsall is the founding President of the Center of Global
Development. Prior to launching the Center, she was Senior Associate
and Director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace. Earlier Nancy Birdsall was
Executive Vice-President of the Inter-American Development Bank.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: India Case Study: From Competition At Home to Competing Abroad, May 15 at 3:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop & South Asia Region

South Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management
cordially invite you to a discussion of a recent publication:

From Competition At Home to Competing Abroad:
A Case Study of India?s Horticulture
Aaditya Mattoo, Deepak Mishra, and Ashish Narain

A new World Bank and OUP report examines the paradox that while India is a
large, low cost agricultural producer, its share in global agriculture exports
is minuscule. India produces nearly 11 per cent of all the world?s vegetables
and 15 per cent of all fruits, yet its share in global exports of vegetables is
only 1.7 per cent and in fruits a meager 0.5 per cent. Based on an integrated
analysis of the sector?from farm to market?on the basis of primary surveys of
farmers, agents, and exporters across fifteen Indian states, the report lists
three major factors that are undermining India?s potential for reaching
supermarkets across the globe: (i) The high delivery costs of getting
agricultural produce from farm to market; (ii) The existence of a huge gap
between the health, safety, and quality standards required abroad and the weak
standards and assessment mechanisms in India; and (iii) Pernicious forms of
trade protection and a system of special safeguards that is a source of
considerable uncertainty for successful exporters.

Tuesday, May 15 2007
3:00 - 4:30pm
World Bank J Building J1 - 050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chair
Praful Patel
Vice President, South Asia Region
Praful Patel, a Ugandan national, is one of the senior corporate leaders of the
World Bank. He is currently the Regional Vice President of South Asia. Mr.
Patel joined the World Bank in 1974 through the Young Professional Program after
completing his higher education from the University of Nairobi in Kenya and
later the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA. In a career
spanning 29 years, Mr. Patel has provided strategic leadership in managerial and
corporate positions in various parts of the Bank taking forward the
institution?s mission of poverty alleviation in regions as varied as Africa,
East Asia, Latin America and Northern Africa and the Middle East. In the
process, he has covered different sectors including urban, infrastructure,
private sector, financial sector and macro-economic management. He has also
taken on senior management oversight of complex Bank-supported initiatives in
countries confronting major macro-economic shocks, post-conflict countries, and
countries involving international cross-boundary undertakings, and piloted in
Southern Africa the Bank?s increasing shift to country dialogue based on
knowledge management and support of local capacity.

Authors
Aaditya Mattoo
Lead Economist, DECRG
Aaditya Mattoo is Lead Economist in the Development Research Group of the World
Bank. He has been leading a World Bank project to help the Government of India
develop a strategy for international trade reform and negotiations on
agriculture and services. 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.

Deepak Mishra
Senior Economist, South Asia PREM
Deepak Mishra is Senior Economist in the Poverty Reduction and Economic
Management Unit in the South Asia region of the World Bank. He has been leading
a World Bank project to help the Government of India to develop an informed
strategy for reform and negotiations in trade in services and agriculture. He
also specializes in sub-national issues?as the task manager of policy-based
budget support operations to Andhra Pradesh and Bihar and as one of the leading
authors of sub-national economic reports on Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Sindh
(Pakistan). Prior to joining the Bank, he worked for the Federal Reserve Board
and Tata Motors in various capacities. Mr. Mishra is an Indian national and
holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Maryland, College Park, and an
M.A. in Economics from Delhi School of Economics

Discussant
Will Martin
Lead Economist, DECRG
Will Martin specializes in analysis of trade policy reforms in developing
countries, with an emphasis on reforms related to the WTO, and a regional focus
on East and South Asia. He has written extensively on policy reforms in
agricultural trade, textiles and clothing, and non-agricultural trade generally.
Mr. Martin has a particular interest in using detailed data on trade barriers to
build up a complete picture of the effects of trade barriers on trade and
welfare. Mr. Martin has published widely in journals, and several books,
including recent studies of global trade reform and of China?s accession to the
WTO.

____
__________________________________________________________________________________________________

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

MENA Development Report on Water discussed at the InfoShop on May 22, 2007, from 12:00 to 2:00 pm in J1-050

InfoShop and Sustainable Development Department (MNSSD), Middle East and North
Africa Region,
World Bank
cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent World Bank
publication
MENA Development Report on Water
Making the Most of Scarcity
Accountability for Better Water Management in the Middle East and North Africa

Water in the Middle East and North Africa region is a source of major social and
economic challenges stemming from scarcity, variability, unreliable services,
and environmental degradation. Current population growth will put further
stress on this situation in the near future, unless current practices change.
In addition, climate change is predicted to increase the temperature and
thereby, water demand in agriculture, and will cause more droughts and floods.
While water professionals have been advocating comprehensive water reforms for
years and many countries have improved their water policies and institutions,
some of the most politically sensitive elements of reform remain untouched. The
book suggests that a series of factors are now emerging that represent a
potential opportunity to break this impasse.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 from 12:00pm - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building - J1- 050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and
Pennsylvania Ave.)
Presentation followed by Light Lunch Reception
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Opening Remarks by
Inger Andersen
Director, Sustainable Development Department, Middle East and North Africa
Region, World Bank
Inger Andersen is the Director of the Sustainable Development Department
(MNSSD), Middle East and North Africa Region, of the World Bank Group. Prior to
that, she held positions as Senior Water Resources Specialist leading the Africa
Urban and Water II [West and Central Africa (AFTU2)] resources program where she
worked closely with the Nile Basin, and subsequently Sector Manager of AFTU2.
Prior to joining the World Bank, Ms. Andersen held various positions at UNDP,
including managing environment and water operations and policy dialogue in both
Africa and the Middle East regions. She also worked in Sudan, where she managed
an NGO supporting drought, famine, and war relief and rehabilitation in Western
and Southern Sudan.

Presentation by
Julia Bucknall
Lead Natural Resources Management Specialist, World Bank
Julia Bucknall is the main author of the report. She is presently a Lead
Natural Resources Management Specialist in the Sustainable Development
Department (MNSSD), Middle East and North Africa Region of the World Bank Group.
She has worked on water projects for the Bank in Latin America, East Asia, ECA
and MENA. Before that, she was an environmental consultant in Europe. She is
an environmental policy specialist by training.

Comments by
Jamal Saghir
Director, Energy, Transport and Water, in the Sustainable Vice Presidency
(SDNVP), World Bank
Jamal Saghir is the chair of the Energy and Mining Sector Board, Transport
Sector Board, and Water Sector Board. The position also includes management of
the network functions for the Energy, Transport, and Water sectors Bank-wide.
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.

Carlos Silva-Jauregui
Advisor to the Chief Economist, Social and Economic Development Group (MNSED),
Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank
Carlos Silva-Jauregui is Advisor to the Chief Economist in the Social and
Economic Development Group (MNSED), Middle East and North Africa Region of the
World Bank Group. He began his professional career working in the research
department of the Banco Nacional de Mexico (BANAMEX), the largest commercial
bank in Mexico, and spent a number of years in academia, doing research and
lecturing in areas such as macroeconomics, microeconomics, statistics and
econometrics in Mexico, Spain and the US. In 1991, he joined the World Bank as
an Economist and has worked in the Latin America, ECA and the MENA regions. He
is author and co-author and team leader of numerous studies at the World Bank.
Mr. Silva-Jauregui is also a member of the regional Gender Advisory Group.

Dale Whittington
Professor of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, City & Regional Planning, and
Public Policy, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dr. Whittington is a Professor of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, City &
Regional Planning, and Public Policy, at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. Since 1986, he has worked for the World Bank and other
international agencies on the development and application of techniques for
estimating the economic value of environmental resources in developing
countries, with a particular focus on water and sanitation and vaccine policy
issues. He has designed and carried out valuation studies in Haiti, Guatemala,
Mexico, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Tanzania,
Pakistan, Nepal, China, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Bulgaria, and
Ukraine. His current research focuses on the following four areas: (1)
development of planning approaches and methods for the design of improved water
and sanitation systems for the rapidly growing cities of Asia; (2) the design of
municipal water tariffs in developing countries; (3) estimating the economic
benefits of vaccines for malaria, typhoid, cholera, and HIV/AIDS; and (4) Nile
water management issues. Professor Whittington is the author (with Prof. Duncan
MacRae) of a graduate textbook on public policy analysis, Expert Advice for
Policy Choice.

Closing Remarks by
Vijay Jagannathan
Sector Manager for Water, Sustainable Development Department, Middle East and
North Africa Region, World Bank
Vijay Jagannathan is the Sector Manager for Water in the Sustainable Development
Department (MNSSD), Middle East and North Africa Region, of the World Bank
Group. Prior to this assignment, he worked on water supply and sanitation
programs in Southeast Asia, and in the Center (in the infrastructure and
environment departments). His pre-Bank experience has been in both the public
and private sectors in India. In the public sector, he worked on a range of
developmental issues in India as a member of the Indian Administrative Service,
and in the private sector in the Tata Administrative Service.

For more information about the report, please go to
http://go.worldbank.org/WDPAMJ5290
Information on water in mena :

http://www.worldbank.org/mena-water
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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

MENA Development Report on Water discussed at the InfoShop on May 22, 2007, from 12:00 to 2:00 pm in J1-050

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and
Sustainable Development Department (MNSSD), Middle East and North
Africa Region,
World Bank
cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent World
Bank publication
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| | MENA Development Report on Water |
| | Making the Most of Scarcity |
| (Embedded image moved | Accountability for Better Water |
| to file: pic02324.jpg) | Management in the Middle East and North |
| | Africa |
| | |
| | Water in the Middle East and North |
| | Africa region is a source of major |
| | social and economic challenges stemming |
| | from scarcity, variability, unreliable |
| | services, and environmental |
| | degradation. Current population growth |
| | will put further stress on this |
| | situation in the near future, unless |
| | current practices change. In addition, |
| | climate change is predicted to increase |
| | the temperature and thereby, water |
| | demand in agriculture, and will cause |
| | more droughts and floods. While water |
| | professionals have been advocating |
| | comprehensive water reforms for years |
| | and many countries have improved their |
| | water policies and institutions, some |
| | of the most politically sensitive |
| | elements of reform remain untouched. |
| | The book suggests that a series of |
| | factors are now emerging that represent |
| | a potential opportunity to break this |
| | impasse. |
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 from 12:00pm - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building - J1- 050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and
Pennsylvania Ave.)

Presentation followed by Light Lunch Reception
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Opening Remarks by
Inger Andersen
Director, Sustainable Development Department, Middle East and North
Africa Region, World Bank
Inger Andersen is the Director of the Sustainable Development
Department (MNSSD), Middle East and North Africa Region, of the
World Bank Group. Prior to that, she held positions as Senior Water
Resources Specialist leading the Africa Urban and Water II [West and
Central Africa (AFTU2)] resources program where she worked closely
with the Nile Basin, and subsequently Sector Manager of AFTU2.
Prior to joining the World Bank, Ms. Andersen held various positions
at UNDP, including managing environment and water operations and
policy dialogue in both Africa and the Middle East regions. She
also worked in Sudan, where she managed an NGO supporting drought,
famine, and war relief and rehabilitation in Western and Southern
Sudan.

Presentation by
Julia Bucknall
Lead Natural Resources Management Specialist, World Bank
Julia Bucknall is the main author of the report. She is presently a
Lead Natural Resources Management Specialist in the Sustainable
Development Department (MNSSD), Middle East and North Africa Region
of the World Bank Group. She has worked on water projects for the
Bank in Latin America, East Asia, ECA and MENA. Before that, she
was an environmental consultant in Europe. She is an environmental
policy specialist by training.

Comments by
Jamal Saghir
Director, Energy, Transport and Water, in the Sustainable Vice
Presidency (SDNVP), World Bank
Jamal Saghir is the chair of the Energy and Mining Sector Board,
Transport Sector Board, and Water Sector Board. The position also
includes management of the network functions for the Energy,
Transport, and Water sectors Bank-wide.
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.

Carlos Silva-Jauregui
Advisor to the Chief Economist, Social and Economic Development
Group (MNSED), Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank
Carlos Silva-Jauregui is Advisor to the Chief Economist in the
Social and Economic Development Group (MNSED), Middle East and North
Africa Region of the World Bank Group. He began his professional
career working in the research department of the Banco Nacional de
Mexico (BANAMEX), the largest commercial bank in Mexico, and spent a
number of years in academia, doing research and lecturing in areas
such as macroeconomics, microeconomics, statistics and econometrics
in Mexico, Spain and the US. In 1991, he joined the World Bank as
an Economist and has worked in the Latin America, ECA and the MENA
regions. He is author and co-author and team leader of numerous
studies at the World Bank. Mr. Silva-Jauregui is also a member of
the regional Gender Advisory Group.

Dale Whittington
Professor of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, City & Regional
Planning, and Public Policy, at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Dr. Whittington is a Professor of Environmental Sciences &
Engineering, City & Regional Planning, and Public Policy, at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since 1986, he has
worked for the World Bank and other international agencies on the
development and application of techniques for estimating the
economic value of environmental resources in developing countries,
with a particular focus on water and sanitation and vaccine policy
issues. He has designed and carried out valuation studies in Haiti,
Guatemala, Mexico, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia,
Mozambique, Tanzania, Pakistan, Nepal, China, Philippines, Vietnam,
Thailand, Indonesia, Bulgaria, and Ukraine. His current research
focuses on the following four areas: (1) development of planning
approaches and methods for the design of improved water and
sanitation systems for the rapidly growing cities of Asia; (2) the
design of municipal water tariffs in developing countries; (3)
estimating the economic benefits of vaccines for malaria, typhoid,
cholera, and HIV/AIDS; and (4) Nile water management issues.
Professor Whittington is the author (with Prof. Duncan MacRae) of a
graduate textbook on public policy analysis, Expert Advice for
Policy Choice.

Closing Remarks by
Vijay Jagannathan
Sector Manager for Water, Sustainable Development Department, Middle
East and North Africa Region, World Bank
Vijay Jagannathan is the Sector Manager for Water in the Sustainable
Development Department (MNSSD), Middle East and North Africa Region,
of the World Bank Group. Prior to this assignment, he worked on
water supply and sanitation programs in Southeast Asia, and in the
Center (in the infrastructure and environment departments). His
pre-Bank experience has been in both the public and private sectors
in India. In the public sector, he worked on a range of
developmental issues in India as a member of the Indian
Administrative Service, and in the private sector in the Tata
Administrative Service.

For more information about the report, please go to

http://go.worldbank.org/WDPAMJ5290

Information on water in mena :
http://www.worldbank.org/mena-water

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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: India Case Study: From Competition At Home to Competing Abroad, May 15 at 3:00pm in J1-050

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South Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management
cordially invite you to a discussion of a recent publication:

From Competition At Home to Competing Abroad:
A Case Study of India?s Horticulture
Aaditya Mattoo, Deepak Mishra, and Ashish Narain

A new World Bank and OUP report examines the paradox that while
India is a large, low cost agricultural producer, its share in
global agriculture exports is minuscule. India produces nearly 11
per cent of all the world?s vegetables and 15 per cent of all
fruits, yet its share in global exports of vegetables is only 1.7
per cent and in fruits a meager 0.5 per cent. Based on an integrated
analysis of the sector?from farm to market?on the basis of primary
surveys of farmers, agents, and exporters across fifteen Indian
states, the report lists three major factors that are undermining
India?s potential for reaching supermarkets across the globe: (i)
The high delivery costs of getting agricultural produce from farm to
market; (ii) The existence of a huge gap between the health, safety,
and quality standards required abroad and the weak standards and
assessment mechanisms in India; and (iii) Pernicious forms of trade
protection and a system of special safeguards that is a source of
considerable uncertainty for successful exporters.

Tuesday, May 15 2007
3:00 - 4:30pm
World Bank J Building J1 - 050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

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______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Chair
Praful Patel
Vice President, South Asia Region
Praful Patel, a Ugandan national, is one of the senior corporate
leaders of the World Bank. He is currently the Regional Vice
President of South Asia. Mr. Patel joined the World Bank in 1974
through the Young Professional Program after completing his higher
education from the University of Nairobi in Kenya and later the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA. In a career
spanning 29 years, Mr. Patel has provided strategic leadership in
managerial and corporate positions in various parts of the Bank
taking forward the institution?s mission of poverty alleviation in
regions as varied as Africa, East Asia, Latin America and Northern
Africa and the Middle East. In the process, he has covered
different sectors including urban, infrastructure, private sector,
financial sector and macro-economic management. He has also taken
on senior management oversight of complex Bank-supported initiatives
in countries confronting major macro-economic shocks, post-conflict
countries, and countries involving international cross-boundary
undertakings, and piloted in Southern Africa the Bank?s increasing
shift to country dialogue based on knowledge management and support
of local capacity.

Authors
Aaditya Mattoo
Lead Economist, DECRG
Aaditya Mattoo is Lead Economist in the Development Research Group
of the World Bank. He has been leading a World Bank project to help
the Government of India develop a strategy for international trade
reform and negotiations on agriculture and services. 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.

Deepak Mishra
Senior Economist, South Asia PREM
Deepak Mishra is Senior Economist in the Poverty Reduction and
Economic Management Unit in the South Asia region of the World Bank.
He has been leading a World Bank project to help the Government of
India to develop an informed strategy for reform and negotiations in
trade in services and agriculture. He also specializes in
sub-national issues?as the task manager of policy-based budget
support operations to Andhra Pradesh and Bihar and as one of the
leading authors of sub-national economic reports on Andhra Pradesh,
Punjab and Sindh (Pakistan). Prior to joining the Bank, he worked
for the Federal Reserve Board and Tata Motors in various capacities.
Mr. Mishra is an Indian national and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from
University of Maryland, College Park, and an M.A. in Economics from
Delhi School of Economics

Discussant
Will Martin
Lead Economist, DECRG
Will Martin specializes in analysis of trade policy reforms in
developing countries, with an emphasis on reforms related to the
WTO, and a regional focus on East and South Asia. He has written
extensively on policy reforms in agricultural trade, textiles and
clothing, and non-agricultural trade generally. Mr. Martin has a
particular interest in using detailed data on trade barriers to
build up a complete picture of the effects of trade barriers on
trade and welfare. Mr. Martin has published widely in journals, and
several books, including recent studies of global trade reform and
of China?s accession to the WTO.

____
__________________________________________________________________________________________________

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