REMINDER: "A General Theory of Trade and Competition: Trade Liberalization and Competitive Markets" discussed on June 11, 2007, at 12:00pm in J1-050

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Global Strategy Project
&
International Trade Department, World Bank
Invite you to a discussion featuring a recent publication

A General Theory of Trade and Competition
Trade Liberalization and Competitive Markets
By Shanker Singham

General Theory of Trade and Competition is the first academic or
practitioner text book to establish a general theory of trade and
competition and attempts to bring these two disciplines back
together. Shanker Singham demonstrates that there is indeed a
powerful interface between these two areas and that by understanding
this interface practitioners, be they in governments, companies or
law and economics firms can succeed in trade negotiations as well as
build up support for free trade principles in a time when they are
being increasingly challenged. By noting that consumer welfare is
enhanced where trade liberalization is accompanied by competitive
markets and property rights protection, the author articulates an
overall vision in which future policymakers can frame a different
kind of trade debate.
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Monday, June 11, 2007 from 12:00pm - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1-050, 701 18th Street, NW

For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Moderated by
Marco Vicenzino
Director, Global Strategy Project
Marco Vicenzino is the founder and director of the Global Strategy
Project. Mr. Vicenzino served as Deputy Executive Director of the
International Institute for Strategic Studies-US (IISS-US) in
Washington, DC, and is an international attorney. Mr. Vicenzino has
taught International Law at the School of International Service
of American University. As a strategic policy analyst,
commentator and regular guest speaker on foreign affairs, he has
contributed to various international media outlets, including BBC
World News, CNN International, CNN Spanish, Al Jazeera,
Univision, RAI, Financial Times, Le Figaro, El Mundo, Al Hayat,
FT Deutschland, El Universal and Folha de Sao Paulo. Mr.
Vicenzino has also served as an advisor to the World Bank.
Presented by author:
Shanker Singham
Shanker Singham is Chairman of the International Trade and
Competition Policy Roundtable and the leader of Squire Sanders and
Dempsey LLP's market access/WTO practice. He is one of the world's
leading lawyers in this area, and has written over fifty articles
and book chapters on related topics. He is widely quoted on these
issues in the media including being interviewed by CNBC on the Doha
Development round of WTO negotiations, and being quoted in the
Financial Times, Times, Reuters, the Economist, Wall Street Journal
and New York Times, as well as Time and Wired Magazines.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About Global Strategy Project
The Global Strategy Project is a non-profit, nonpartisan
organization, based in Washington, DC, that strives to bring
foreign affairs to the center of public debate. Its purpose is
to provide a global audience with an objective understanding,
through analytical publications and other activities, of events,
developments and issues that impact international peace and
security; to convene public and private actors in forums to
improve dialogue and relations and promote the understanding of
issues that impact international peace and security; and to
contribute to a process that fosters and advances international
peace and security. For more information, visit:

http://www.globalstrategyproject.org.

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

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

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

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"Societal Learning and Change" on June 20, 2007 at 12:30pm in J1-050

InfoShop & The World Bank Institute

cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a Greenleaf Press
publication
Societal Learning And Change
Steve Waddell

The world faces unprecedented challenges that will require business, government
and civil society to work and learn together in ways that have never been needed
in the past. This demands bridging gulfs of misunderstanding and distrust that
have build up over generations. No one knows how to do this, but a few brave
explorers like Steve Waddell are showing the way. Societal Learning and Change
provides one of the first comprehensive treatments of the motivations,
processes, pitfalls and possibilities for such change.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Wednesday, June 20, 2007
12:30 - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)
Coffee and Cookies will be served

For non bank staff, please RSVP to infoShopevents@worldbank.org
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Chair
Steen Lau Jorgensen
Director for Social Development, World Bank
Steen Lau Jorgensen has held a number of positions with the Bank, including
Country Economist and Country Officer for Bolivia, advisor to senior management
in the Africa Region, and Sector Manager in the Social Protection team in the
Bank's Human Development Network. He has co-authored strategy papers including
"Empowering People by Transforming Institutions: Social Development in World
Bank Organizations" as well as written academic publications related to socially
sustainable development and community development.

Author
Steve Waddell
Steve Waddell is a researcher, educator, and consultant focusing on large
systems change and global networks. Two key concepts have arisen from his work:
societal learning and change, which is a deep change strategy to address chronic
and complex issues, and global action networks, which are an emerging form of
global governance that address issues requiring deep change. He is co-founder
and co-lead steward of Global Action Network Net (GAN-Net), a global network of
global, multi-stakeholder change networks. Mr. Waddell is also co-founder of
the Institute for Strategic Clarity, co-founder of an executive management
program in leadership and change at Boston College, and Associate of the Center
for Innovation in Management at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

Commentary
Kristalina Georgieva
Director of Strategy and Operations, World Bank's Sustainable Development
Network
Kristalina Georgieva has held a number of positions in Bank operations and on
issues of environment and sustainable development, including Environmental
Economist in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Region, Director for Environment
and Social Development in the East Asia and Pacific Region, and Director and
Resident Representative for the Russian Federation in the ECA region. Prior to
joining the Bank, she held academic and consulting positions in Bulgaria, the
United Kingdom, and the US, and has lectured on development topics in a large
number of universities around the world.

Daniel Runde
Head of the Partnership Development Unit, International Finance Corporation
(IFC)
Daniel Runde is responsible for building development partnerships with the
private and corporate philanthropic communities. Prior to joining the Bank, he
ran the Global Development Alliance (GDA) initiative at the US Agency for
International Development (USAID). GDA makes greater use of public-private
partnerships for development and partners have included companies, companies,
private philanthropy, faith-based groups, individual donors and others.
Previously Mr. Runde was Assistant Vice President for Business Development with
Citigroup in Argentina.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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

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

"Societal Learning and Change" on June 20, 2007 at 12:30pm in J1-050

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&
The World Bank Institute

cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a Greenleaf
Press publication
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| | |
| | Societal Learning And Change |
| | Steve Waddell |
| | |
| (Embedded image moved to | The world faces unprecedented |
| file: pic05967.jpg) | challenges that will require |
| | business, government and civil |
| | society to work and learn together |
| | in ways that have never been needed |
| | in the past. This demands bridging |
| | gulfs of misunderstanding and |
| | distrust that have build up over |
| | generations. No one knows how to do |
| | this, but a few brave explorers like |
| | Steve Waddell are showing the way. |
| | Societal Learning and Change |
| | provides one of the first |
| | comprehensive treatments of the |
| | motivations, processes, pitfalls and |
| | possibilities for such change. |
| | |
| | |
| | Wednesday, June 20, 2007 |
| | 12:30 - 2:00pm |
| | World Bank J Building, Auditorium |
| | J1-050 |
| | (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. |
| | and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| | Coffee and Cookies will be served |
| | |
| | |
| | |
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Chair
Steen Lau Jorgensen
Director for Social Development, World Bank
Steen Lau Jorgensen has held a number of positions with the Bank,
including Country Economist and Country Officer for Bolivia, advisor
to senior management in the Africa Region, and Sector Manager in the
Social Protection team in the Bank's Human Development Network. He
has co-authored strategy papers including "Empowering People by
Transforming Institutions: Social Development in World Bank
Organizations" as well as written academic publications related to
socially sustainable development and community development.

Author
Steve Waddell
Steve Waddell is a researcher, educator, and consultant focusing on
large systems change and global networks. Two key concepts have
arisen from his work: societal learning and change, which is a deep
change strategy to address chronic and complex issues, and global
action networks, which are an emerging form of global governance
that address issues requiring deep change. He is co-founder and
co-lead steward of Global Action Network Net (GAN-Net), a global
network of global, multi-stakeholder change networks. Mr. Waddell
is also co-founder of the Institute for Strategic Clarity,
co-founder of an executive management program in leadership and
change at Boston College, and Associate of the Center for Innovation
in Management at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.

Commentary
Kristalina Georgieva
Director of Strategy and Operations, World Bank's Sustainable Development
Network
Kristalina Georgieva has held a number of positions in Bank
operations and on issues of environment and sustainable development,
including Environmental Economist in the Europe and Central Asia
(ECA) Region, Director for Environment and Social Development in the
East Asia and Pacific Region, and Director and Resident
Representative for the Russian Federation in the ECA region. Prior
to joining the Bank, she held academic and consulting positions in
Bulgaria, the United Kingdom, and the US, and has lectured on
development topics in a large number of universities around the
world.

Daniel Runde
Head of the Partnership Development Unit, International Finance Corporation
(IFC)
Daniel Runde is responsible for building development partnerships
with the private and corporate philanthropic communities. Prior to
joining the Bank, he ran the Global Development Alliance (GDA)
initiative at the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
GDA makes greater use of public-private partnerships for development
and partners have included companies, companies, private
philanthropy, faith-based groups, individual donors and others.
Previously Mr. Runde was Assistant Vice President for Business
Development with Citigroup in Argentina.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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

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

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Reminder: "Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization" on June 7, 2007 at 3:00 pm

InfoShop and the Development Research Group
invite you to a book launch of a recent publication
Bound Together:
How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization
Nayan Chanda

In this book, Nayan Chanda follows the exploits of traders, preachers,
adventurers, and warriors throughout history as they have shaped and reshaped
the world. For Chanda, globalization is a process of ever-growing
interconnectedness and interdependence that began thousands of years ago and
continues to this day with increasing speed and ease.

In the end, globalization is the product of myriad aspirations and apprehensions
that define just about every aspect of our lives: what we eat, wear, ride, or
possess is the product of thousands of years of human endeavor and suffering
across the globe. Chanda reviews and illustrates the economic and technological
forces at play in globalization today and concludes with a thought-provoking
discussion of how we can and should embrace an inevitably global world.

"Bound Together is a graceful recounting of modern globalization with a
panoramic perspective. Studded with meaningful and entertaining anecdotes, it
is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how we got where we are
today."
Joseph E.
Stiglitz
Nobel laureate
in economics
______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Thursday, June 7 2007 at 3:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Introduced by
Branko Milanovic
Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Milanovic is a lead economist in World Bank Research Department, unit
dealing with poverty, income distribution and household surveys; senior
associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington; adjunct
professor at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins
University and University of Maryland. Mr. Milanovic writes on methodology and
empirics of inequality; poverty and social policy in transition economies, and
globalization and inequality. His recent publications include Income and
Influence: Social Policy in Emerging Market Economies (co-authored with Ethan
Kapstein), Upjohn 2003; ?True world income distribution 1988 and 1993: first
calculations based on household surveys alone?, Economic Journal, 2002; and
Income, Inequality, and Poverty during the Transition from Planned to Market
Economy, World Bank, 1998. His new book Worlds Apart: Measuring Internationl
and Global Inequality, Princeton University Press came out in 2005.

Moderated by
Bruce Stokes
International Economics Columnist, National Journal
Bruce Stokes is the international economics columnist for the National Journal,
a Washington-based public policy magazine. He is coauthor of the recent book
America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked. A
former senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Mr. Stokes is
currently a journalism fellow at the German Marshall Fund. In 1997, he was a
member of President Clinton's Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and
Investment Policy. He is also author of the book Open for Business: Creating a
Transatlantic Marketplace. In 2004, he was chosen by International Economy
magazine as one of the most influential China watchers in the American press.
In 1995, he was picked by Washingtonian Magazine as one of the "Best on
Business" reporters in Washington.

Presented by Author
Nayan Chanda
Director of Publications, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and the
Editor of YaleGlobal Online
Nayan Chanda was associated with the Hong Kong-based magazine the Far Eastern
Economic Review as its reporter, diplomatic correspondent and editor. In
1989-90 Chanda was a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace in Washington. From 1990-1992 Chanda was editor of the Asian Wall Street
Journal Weekly, published from New York. He is the author of Brother Enemy: The
War After the War and co-author of over a dozen books on Asian politics,
security and foreign policy. His most recent book is Bound Together: How
Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization. He is
Co-editor with Strobe Talbott The Age of Terror: America and the World After
September 11, and Co-editor with Bruce Mazlish and Kenneth Weisbrode, The
Paradox of a Global USA. Mr. Chanda is the winner of the 2005 Shorenstein Award
for Journalism presented not only for a distinguished body of work, but also for
the particular way it has helped an American audience understand the
complexities of Asia.

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

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

REMINDER: "Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization" on June 7 at 3:00pm

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and
the Development Research Group
invite you to a book launch of a recent publication
|---------------------------+--------------------------------------|
| | |
| | Bound Together: |
| | How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, |
| | and Warriors Shaped Globalization |
| (Embedded image moved | Nayan Chanda |
| to file: pic23775.jpg) | |
| | In this book, Nayan Chanda follows |
| | the exploits of traders, preachers, |
| | adventurers, and warriors throughout |
| | history as they have shaped and |
| | reshaped the world. For Chanda, |
| | globalization is a process of |
| | ever-growing interconnectedness and |
| | interdependence that began thousands |
| | of years ago and continues to this |
| | day with increasing speed and ease. |
| | |
| | In the end, globalization is the |
| | product of myriad aspirations and |
| | apprehensions that define just about |
| | every aspect of our lives: what we |
| | eat, wear, ride, or possess is the |
| | product of thousands of years of |
| | human endeavor and suffering across |
| | the globe. Chanda reviews and |
| | illustrates the economic and |
| | technological forces at play in |
| | globalization today and concludes |
| | with a thought-provoking discussion |
| | of how we can and should embrace an |
| | inevitably global world. |
| | |
| | |
| | |
|---------------------------+--------------------------------------|

"Bound Together is a graceful recounting of modern globalization
with a panoramic perspective. Studded with meaningful and
entertaining anecdotes, it is essential reading for anyone who wants
to understand how we got where we are today."

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Nobel laureate in economics
______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Thursday, June 7 2007 at 3:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Introduced by
Branko Milanovic
Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Milanovic is a lead economist in World Bank Research Department,
unit dealing with poverty, income distribution and household
surveys; senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace in Washington; adjunct professor at the School for Advanced
International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and University of
Maryland. Mr. Milanovic writes on methodology and empirics of
inequality; poverty and social policy in transition economies, and
globalization and inequality. His recent publications include Income
and Influence: Social Policy in Emerging Market Economies
(co-authored with Ethan Kapstein), Upjohn 2003; ?True world income
distribution 1988 and 1993: first calculations based on household
surveys alone?, Economic Journal, 2002; and Income, Inequality, and
Poverty during the Transition from Planned to Market Economy, World
Bank, 1998. His new book Worlds Apart: Measuring Internationl and
Global Inequality, Princeton University Press came out in 2005.

Moderated by
Bruce Stokes
International Economics Columnist, National Journal
Bruce Stokes is the international economics columnist for the
National Journal, a Washington-based public policy magazine. He is
coauthor of the recent book America Against the World: How We Are
Different and Why We Are Disliked. A former senior fellow at the
Council on Foreign Relations, Mr. Stokes is currently a journalism
fellow at the German Marshall Fund. In 1997, he was a member of
President Clinton's Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and
Investment Policy. He is also author of the book Open for Business:
Creating a Transatlantic Marketplace. In 2004, he was chosen by
International Economy magazine as one of the most influential China
watchers in the American press. In 1995, he was picked by
Washingtonian Magazine as one of the "Best on Business" reporters in
Washington.

Presented by Author
Nayan Chanda
Director of Publications, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
and the Editor of YaleGlobal Online
Nayan Chanda was associated with the Hong Kong-based magazine the
Far Eastern Economic Review as its reporter, diplomatic
correspondent and editor. In 1989-90 Chanda was a Senior Fellow at
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. From
1990-1992 Chanda was editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly,
published from New York. He is the author of Brother Enemy: The War
After the War and co-author of over a dozen books on Asian politics,
security and foreign policy. His most recent book is Bound
Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped
Globalization. He is Co-editor with Strobe Talbott The Age of
Terror: America and the World After September 11, and Co-editor with
Bruce Mazlish and Kenneth Weisbrode, The Paradox of a Global USA.
Mr. Chanda is the winner of the 2005 Shorenstein Award for
Journalism presented not only for a distinguished body of work, but
also for the particular way it has helped an American audience
understand the complexities of Asia.

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

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

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Book Launch: "Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization" on June 7, 2007 from 12-2pm

InfoShop and the Development Research Group
invite you to a book launch of a recent publication
Bound Together:
How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization
Nayan Chanda

In this book, Nayan Chanda follows the exploits of traders, preachers,
adventurers, and warriors throughout history as they have shaped and reshaped
the world. For Chanda, globalization is a process of ever-growing
interconnectedness and interdependence that began thousands of years ago and
continues to this day with increasing speed and ease.

In the end, globalization is the product of myriad aspirations and apprehensions
that define just about every aspect of our lives: what we eat, wear, ride, or
possess is the product of thousands of years of human endeavor and suffering
across the globe. Chanda reviews and illustrates the economic and technological
forces at play in globalization today and concludes with a thought-provoking
discussion of how we can and should embrace an inevitably global world.

"Bound Together is a graceful recounting of modern globalization with a
panoramic perspective. Studded with meaningful and entertaining anecdotes, it
is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how we got where we are
today."
Joseph E.
Stiglitz
Nobel laureate
in economics
______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Thursday, June 7 2007 at 3:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Introduced by
Branko Milanovic
Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Milanovic is a lead economist in World Bank Research Department, unit
dealing with poverty, income distribution and household surveys; senior
associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington; adjunct
professor at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins
University and University of Maryland. Mr. Milanovic writes on methodology and
empirics of inequality; poverty and social policy in transition economies, and
globalization and inequality. His recent publications include Income and
Influence: Social Policy in Emerging Market Economies (co-authored with Ethan
Kapstein), Upjohn 2003; ?True world income distribution 1988 and 1993: first
calculations based on household surveys alone?, Economic Journal, 2002; and
Income, Inequality, and Poverty during the Transition from Planned to Market
Economy, World Bank, 1998. His new book Worlds Apart: Measuring Internationl
and Global Inequality, Princeton University Press came out in 2005.

Moderated by
Bruce Stokes
International Economics Columnist, National Journal
Bruce Stokes is the international economics columnist for the National Journal,
a Washington-based public policy magazine. He is coauthor of the recent book
America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked. A
former senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Mr. Stokes is
currently a journalism fellow at the German Marshall Fund. In 1997, he was a
member of President Clinton's Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and
Investment Policy. He is also author of the book Open for Business: Creating a
Transatlantic Marketplace. In 2004, he was chosen by International Economy
magazine as one of the most influential China watchers in the American press.
In 1995, he was picked by Washingtonian Magazine as one of the "Best on
Business" reporters in Washington.

Presented by Author
Nayan Chanda
Director of Publications, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and the
Editor of YaleGlobal Online
Nayan Chanda was associated with the Hong Kong-based magazine the Far Eastern
Economic Review as its reporter, diplomatic correspondent and editor. In
1989-90 Chanda was a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace in Washington. From 1990-1992 Chanda was editor of the Asian Wall Street
Journal Weekly, published from New York. He is the author of Brother Enemy: The
War After the War and co-author of over a dozen books on Asian politics,
security and foreign policy. His most recent book is Bound Together: How
Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization. He is
Co-editor with Strobe Talbott The Age of Terror: America and the World After
September 11, and Co-editor with Bruce Mazlish and Kenneth Weisbrode, The
Paradox of a Global USA. Mr. Chanda is the winner of the 2005 Shorenstein Award
for Journalism presented not only for a distinguished body of work, but also for
the particular way it has helped an American audience understand the
complexities of Asia.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.

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

Reminder:"The Rise of the Unelected: Democracy and the New Separation of Powers" discussed at the InfoShop on June 6, 2007, at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop & PRMPS
cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent Cambridge
University Press publication
The Rise of the Unelected
Democracy and the New Separation of Powers
By Frank Vibert

Unelected bodies, such as independent central banks, economic regulators, risk
managers and auditors have become a worldwide phenomenon. Democracies are
increasingly turning to them to demarcate boundaries between the market and the
state, to resolve conflicts of interest and to allocate resources, even in
sensitive ethical areas such as those involving privacy or biotechnology. This
book examines the challenge that unelected bodies present to democracy and
argues that, taken together, such bodies should be viewed as a new branch of
government with their own sources of legitimacy and held to account through a
new separation of powers. Vibert suggests that such bodies help promote a more
informed citizenry because they provide a more trustworthy and reliable source
of information for decisions. This book will be of interest to specialists and
general readers with an interest in modern democracy as well as policy makers,
think tanks and journalists.

Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building -J1-050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

________________________________________________________________________________
Moderated by
Anthony Toft
Chief Counsel, LEGEA
Anthony Toft is Chief Counsel for the East Asia and Pacific Region of the Bank.
Prior to that he spent 6 years in the Bank's Jakarta Office and 2 years in the
Front Office of the then newly established country department for the former
Soviet Union. His non-Bank experience includes 4 years with a law firm in New
York and 3 years with a law firm in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Discussed by Author
Frank Vibert
Co-founder and Director of the European Policy Forum
Frank Vibert is co-founder and Director of the European Policy Forum. Educated
at Exeter College, Oxford. He has served as a Senior Advisor at the World Bank
and Senior Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economic Research.
Previous books include Europe Simple, Europe Strong - The Future of European
Governance, published by Polity Press (2001) and Europe: A Constitution for the
Millenium. (Dartmouth 1995 - The subject of a special issue of ?Constitutional
Political Economy? Vol 7 , No 4, 1996) He writes extensively on regulation and
constitutional questions.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.

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

Reminder: "The Rise of the Unelected: Democracy and the New Separation of Powers" discussed at the InfoShop on June 6, 2007, at 12:00pm in J1-050

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cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent
Cambridge University Press publication
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| | The Rise of the Unelected |
| | Democracy and the New Separation of |
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| moved to file: | By Frank Vibert |
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| Rise of the | Unelected bodies, such as independent |
| Unelected | central banks, economic regulators, risk |
| | managers and auditors have become a |
| | worldwide phenomenon. Democracies are |
| | increasingly turning to them to demarcate |
| | boundaries between the market and the |
| | state, to resolve conflicts of interest |
| | and to allocate resources, even in |
| | sensitive ethical areas such as those |
| | involving privacy or biotechnology. This |
| | book examines the challenge that |
| | unelected bodies present to democracy and |
| | argues that, taken together, such bodies |
| | should be viewed as a new branch of |
| | government with their own sources of |
| | legitimacy and held to account through a |
| | new separation of powers. Vibert suggests |
| | that such bodies help promote a more |
| | informed citizenry because they provide a |
| | more trustworthy and reliable source of |
| | information for decisions. This book will |
| | be of interest to specialists and general |
| | readers with an interest in modern |
| | democracy as well as policy makers, think |
| | tanks and journalists. |
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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building - J1-050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

________________________________________________________________________________
Moderated by
Anthony Toft
Chief Counsel, LEGEA
Anthony Toft is Chief Counsel for the East Asia and Pacific Region
of the Bank. Prior to that he spent 6 years in the Bank's Jakarta
Office and 2 years in the Front Office of the then newly established
country department for the former Soviet Union. His non-Bank
experience includes 4 years with a law firm in New York and 3 years
with a law firm in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Discussed by Author
Frank Vibert
Co-founder and Director of the European Policy Forum
Frank Vibert is co-founder and Director of the European Policy
Forum. Educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He has served as a Senior
Advisor at the World Bank and Senior Fellow at the World Institute
for Development Economic Research. Previous books include Europe
Simple, Europe Strong - The Future of European Governance, published
by Polity Press (2001) and Europe: A Constitution for the Millenium.
(Dartmouth 1995 - The subject of a special issue of ?Constitutional
Political Economy? Vol 7 , No 4, 1996) He writes extensively on
regulation and constitutional questions.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

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

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

"A General Theory of Trade and Competition: Trade Liberalization and Competitive Markets" discussed at the InfoShop on June 11, 2007, at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop & Global Strategy Project & International Trade Department, World Bank
Invite you to a discussion featuring a recent publication

A General Theory of Trade and Competition

Trade Liberalization and Competitive Markets

By Shanker Singham

General Theory of Trade and Competition is the first academic or practitioner
text book to establish a general theory of trade and competition and attempts to
bring these two disciplines back together. Shanker Singham demonstrates that
there is indeed a powerful interface between these two areas and that by
understanding this interface practitioners, be they in governments, companies or
law and economics firms can succeed in trade negotiations as well as build up
support for free trade principles in a time when they are being increasingly
challenged. By noting that consumer welfare is enhanced where trade
liberalization is accompanied by competitive markets and property rights
protection, the author articulates an overall vision in which future
policymakers can frame a different kind of trade debate.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Monday, June 11, 2007 from 12:00pm - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1-050, 701 18th Street, NW

For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org

________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Moderated by

Marco Vicenzino

Director, Global Strategy Project

Marco Vicenzino is the founder and director of the Global Strategy Project.
Mr. Vicenzino served as Deputy Executive Director of the International Institute
for Strategic Studies-US (IISS-US) in Washington, DC, and is an international
attorney. Mr. Vicenzino has taught International Law at the School of
International Service of American University. As a strategic policy
analyst, commentator and regular guest speaker on foreign affairs, he has
contributed to various international media outlets, including BBC World
News, CNN International, CNN Spanish, Al Jazeera, Univision, RAI,
Financial Times, Le Figaro, El Mundo, Al Hayat, FT Deutschland, El Universal
and Folha de Sao Paulo. Mr. Vicenzino has also served as an advisor to the
World Bank.

Presented by author:

Shanker Singham

Shanker Singham is Chairman of the International Trade and Competition Policy
Roundtable and the leader of Squire Sanders and Dempsey LLP's market access/WTO
practice. He is one of the world's leading lawyers in this area, and has
written over fifty articles and book chapters on related topics. He is widely
quoted on these issues in the media including being interviewed by CNBC on the
Doha Development round of WTO negotiations, and being quoted in the Financial
Times, Times, Reuters, the Economist, Wall Street Journal and New York Times, as
well as Time and Wired Magazines.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________

About Global Strategy Project

The Global Strategy Project is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization, based in
Washington, DC, that strives to bring foreign affairs to the center of public
debate. Its purpose is to provide a global audience with an objective
understanding, through analytical publications and other activities, of events,
developments and issues that impact international peace and security; to convene
public and private actors in forums to improve dialogue and relations and
promote the understanding of issues that impact international peace and
security; and to contribute to a process that fosters and advances international
peace and security. For more information, visit:
http://www.globalstrategyproject.org.

About the InfoShop

The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15000 titles published by the
World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.

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

"A General Theory of Trade and Competition: Trade Liberalization and Competitive Markets" discussed at the InfoShop on June 11, 2007, at 12:00pm in J1-050

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&
Global Strategy Project
&
International Trade Department, World Bank

Invite you to a discussion featuring a recent publication

A General Theory of Trade and Competition
Trade Liberalization and Competitive Markets
By Shanker Singham

General Theory of Trade and Competition is the first academic or
practitioner text book to establish a general theory of trade and
competition and attempts to bring these two disciplines back
together. Shanker Singham demonstrates that there is indeed a
powerful interface between these two areas and that by understanding
this interface practitioners, be they in governments, companies or
law and economics firms can succeed in trade negotiations as well as
build up support for free trade principles in a time when they are
being increasingly challenged. By noting that consumer welfare is
enhanced where trade liberalization is accompanied by competitive
markets and property rights protection, the author articulates an
overall vision in which future policymakers can frame a different
kind of trade debate.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Monday, June 11, 2007 from 12:00pm - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1-050, 701 18th Street, NW

For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Moderated by
Marco Vicenzino
Director, Global Strategy Project
Marco Vicenzino is the founder and director of the Global Strategy
Project. Mr. Vicenzino served as Deputy Executive Director of the
International Institute for Strategic Studies-US (IISS-US) in
Washington, DC, and is an international attorney. Mr. Vicenzino has
taught International Law at the School of International Service
of American University. As a strategic policy analyst,
commentator and regular guest speaker on foreign affairs, he has
contributed to various international media outlets, including BBC
World News, CNN International, CNN Spanish, Al Jazeera,
Univision, RAI, Financial Times, Le Figaro, El Mundo, Al Hayat,
FT Deutschland, El Universal and Folha de Sao Paulo. Mr.
Vicenzino has also served as an advisor to the World Bank.
Presented by author:
Shanker Singham
Shanker Singham is Chairman of the International Trade and
Competition Policy Roundtable and the leader of Squire Sanders and
Dempsey LLP's market access/WTO practice. He is one of the world's
leading lawyers in this area, and has written over fifty articles
and book chapters on related topics. He is widely quoted on these
issues in the media including being interviewed by CNBC on the Doha
Development round of WTO negotiations, and being quoted in the
Financial Times, Times, Reuters, the Economist, Wall Street Journal
and New York Times, as well as Time and Wired Magazines.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About Global Strategy Project
The Global Strategy Project is a non-profit, nonpartisan
organization, based in Washington, DC, that strives to bring
foreign affairs to the center of public debate. Its purpose is
to provide a global audience with an objective understanding,
through analytical publications and other activities, of events,
developments and issues that impact international peace and
security; to convene public and private actors in forums to
improve dialogue and relations and promote the understanding of
issues that impact international peace and security; and to
contribute to a process that fosters and advances international
peace and security. For more information, visit:

http://www.globalstrategyproject.org.

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

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

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

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