reminder: "Iron Ladies of Liberia" discussed at the InfoShop on July 16, 2007, at 12:30pm in J1-050

InfoShop, External Affairs Corporate Communications, World Bank and Africa
External Affairs, World Bank
invite you to a screening of highlights from the upcoming documentary
IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA
Directors: Siatta Johnson and Daniel Junge
After nearly two decades of civil war, Liberia is a nation ready for change. On
January 16 2006, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was inaugurated President. She is the
first ever freely elected female head of state in Africa. Winning a hotly
contested election with the overwhelming support of women across Liberia, since
taking office she has appointed other extraordinary women to leadership
positions in all areas of government. Can the first female Liberian president
bring sustainable democracy and peace to such a devastated country? With
exclusive access, African director Siatta Johnson follows President Sirleaf and
her closest aides behind the scenes during their first year in office.
==================================================================================
Monday, July 16, 2007
12:30pm
World Bank J Building (J1-050)
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

Introduction by
Carl Patrick Hanlon
Manager, EXTCC, The World Bank

Discussion by filmmaker:
Siatta Johnson
Siatta Scott-Johnson was born in Buchanan, Liberia in 1974 and raised in rural
Grand Bassa County. She speaks English, Liberia Dialect English, and Bassa
fluently and is the mother of two (Kundu,12 and Mosiatta, 8). Johnson fled
Grand Bassa in the early 90?s with the outbreak of war, and eventually settled
in Monrovia, where she was caught during the last of the violence in 2003. She
has been an instructor at the secondary school level in Monrovia for three
years, and she has five years of experience as a reporter and producer at DCTV,
one of Liberia?s few broadcast television stations.
Siatta is a founding member of Omuahtee Africa Media.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: "Iron Ladies of Liberia" discussed at the InfoShop on July 16, 2007, at 12:30pm in J1-050

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External Affairs Corporate Communications, World Bank
and
Africa External Affairs, World Bank

Invite you to a screening of highlights from the upcoming documentary
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| | IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA |
| | Directors: Siatta Johnson |
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| pic14788.jpg) | |
| | After nearly two decades of |
| | civil war, Liberia is a |
| | nation ready for change. On |
| | January 16 2006, Ellen |
| | Johnson Sirleaf was |
| | inaugurated President. She |
| | is the first ever freely |
| | elected female head of |
| | state in Africa. Winning a |
| | hotly contested election |
| | with the overwhelming |
| | support of women across |
| | Liberia, since taking |
| | office she has appointed |
| | other extraordinary women |
| | to leadership positions in |
| | all areas of government. |
| | Can the first female |
| | Liberian president bring |
| | sustainable democracy and |
| | peace to such a devastated |
| | country? With exclusive |
| | access, African director |
| | Siatta Johnson follows |
| | President Sirleaf and her |
| | closest aides behind the |
| | scenes during their first |
| | year in office. |
|------------------------------------+-----------------------------|

Monday, July 16, 2007
12:30pm
World Bank J Building (J1-050)
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

Introduction by
Carl Patrick Hanlon
Manager, EXTCC, The World Bank

Discussion by filmmaker:
Siatta Johnson
Siatta Scott-Johnson was born in Buchanan, Liberia in 1974 and
raised in rural Grand Bassa County. She speaks English, Liberia
Dialect English, and Bassa fluently and is the mother of two
(Kundu,12 and Mosiatta, 8). Johnson fled Grand Bassa in the early
90?s with the outbreak of war, and eventually settled in Monrovia,
where she was caught during the last of the violence in 2003. She
has been an instructor at the secondary school level in Monrovia for
three years, and she has five years of experience as a reporter and
producer at DCTV, one of Liberia?s few broadcast television
stations.
Siatta is a founding member of Omuahtee Africa Media.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

EDN

REMINDER: "Beyond Disasters: Creating Opportunities for Peace" discussed on July 13 at 12:30-2:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop, Worldwatch Institute and the World Bank Institute cordially invite you
to a book launch:

"Beyond Disasters: Creating Opportunities for Peace"
This book examines the recent experiences of Indonesia?s Aceh province, Sri
Lanka, and Kashmir, among others, and suggests ways to better integrate disaster
and conflict responses. The authors note that the human toll taken by natural
disasters is increasing, adding to the list of deadly challenges faced by poor
communities and countries worldwide. Recorded disasters nearly doubled between
1987 and 2006, while the number of people affected by these disasters increased
more than 10 percent. Women, children, and the elderly are among those most
vulnerable. The report concludes that the intersection of disasters, conflict,
and peacemaking requires interdisciplinary responses from governments,
international donors, and civil society.

Friday, July 13, 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
RSVP required to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

Welcoming remarks
Rakesh Nangia
Acting Vice President, World Bank Institute

Chair
SAROJ KUMAR JHA
Program Manager, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR),
World Bank Group

Saroj Kumar Jha provides strategic guidance and policy advice for the World
Bank?s disaster prevention and preparedness programs and is also the program
manager of the GFDRR. Prior to joining the Bank, he was a member of the Indian
Administrative Service and worked with the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) in India and Iran. He has coordinated a large number of post-disaster
humanitarian relief and long-term recovery and reconstruction projects, and has
worked extensively on the design of early warning systems, assessments, training
and capacity building programs, policy and institution-building initiatives, and
partnerships for disaster prevention and mitigation in different countries. He
holds a degree in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in
Kanpur and has authored several publications on disaster risk reduction.

Presenters
ZOE CHAFE
Co-Author and Research Associate, Worldwatch Institute

Since joining the Worldwatch Institute in 2003, Zoë Chafe has been a frequent
contributor to Worldwatch publications, including State of the World, Vital
Signs, and World Watch magazine. Her recent work focuses on carbon markets,
natural disaster trends, urbanization, and strategies for confronting climate
change. Prior to joining Worldwatch Institute, she worked with the Center on
Ecotourism and Sustainable Development in Washington, DC, the Centre for Science
and Environment in New Delhi, the US Forest Service, the Rocky Mountain
Biological Laboratory, and SustainUS.

MICHAEL RENNER
Co-Author and Senior Researcher, Worldwatch Institute

Michael Renner joined Worldwatch Institute in 1987. His work focuses on new
concepts of security and the ways in which environmental degradation and
competition over resources can generate conflict and human insecurity. He
co-directed Worldwatch's State of the World 2005 report focused on "Redefining
Global Security" and currently directs its Global Security Project. He has
traveled and spoken extensively on environment and security issues, and has led
discussions with policymakers and parliamentarians at the European Parliament
and the Organization for Co-operation and Security in Europe (OSCE). He holds
degrees in political science and international relations from the Universities
of Konstanz (Germany) and Amsterdam.

Commentary
ERIC SCHWARTZ
Executive Director of Connect US

Prior to joining Connect US in 2007, Eric Schwartz served as UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Deputy Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery. Among
other positions, he has also served as a lead expert for the congressionally
mandated Mitchell-Gingrich Task Force on United Nations Reform, second-ranking
official at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and a
member of the US National Security Council with responsibilities for a range of
peacekeeping, humanitarian, and refugee issues. He has held fellowships at the
Woodrow Wilson Center, the US Institute of Peace and the Council on Foreign
Relations, and has been a contributor to the Responsibility to Protect Project
of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. He holds
degrees in law, international relations, and political science from New York
University School of Law, Princeton University, and the State University of New
York at Binghamton.

IAN BANNON
Sector Manager of the Fragile States, Conflict and Social Development Unit,
Africa Region, World Bank

Prior to his current assignment he was manager of the Conflict Prevention and
Reconstruction Unit, and has published widely on conflict and development
themes, including natural resources, education, social development and gender.
He is an economist by training with experience in South Asia, Africa and Latin
America.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

Presentation and discussion -- "Mongolia at a Crossroad" on Thursday, July 19 at 12:30pm in J1-050

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&
East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank

cordially invite you to an information and knowledge exchange session on
Mongolia
and its new phase of development
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| | |
| | |
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| | The landlocked, 18th largest |
| | country, sandwiched between |
| Including a multimedia | Russia and China, is at the cusp |
| presentation: | of major change. Large mineral |
| Sights and Sounds of Mongolia | deposits suggest the potential |
| | of a natural resources-based |
| | boom. How should the Government |
| | make the most of this |
| | possibility? What are some |
| | lessons learned from other |
| | countries? How does it balance |
| | its past nomadic culture and |
| | herder lifestyle, with almost |
| | 60% of its population moving to |
| | urban areas? What should the |
| | government's strategy be in |
| | providing services with such a |
| | dispersed population -- about |
| | 1.5 per sq km -- that is often |
| | on the move? And what should |
| | the role of the World Bank and |
| | other donors be in such a |
| | situation? |
| | |
| | The Bank's country team welcomes |
| | your views in an informal |
| | discussion to be joined by Jim |
| | Adams, Vice President, East Asia |
| | and Pacific Region, Dr. |
| | Joong-Kyung Choi, Executive |
| | Director for Mongolia, among |
| | others. For nature enthusiasts, |
| | eco-tourists, or those who want |
| | to experience the beauty of |
| | Mongolia and the surrounding |
| | areas, the country team will be |
| | glad to provide tips and |
| | practical information for |
| | visiting Mongolia. |
| | |
|-------------------------------+----------------------------------|

Thursday, July 19, 2007
12:30 - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
A light lunch will be served

Opening remarks
JIM ADAMS
East Asia Vice President, World Bank
In his capacity as Vice President, Mr. Adams has overall
responsibility for World Bank operations in one of the world?s most
dynamic regions, covering more than a dozen states ranging from the
world?s most populous country, China, to the smallest and most
remote Pacific Islands states.

JOONG-KYUNG CHOI
Executive Director for Mongolia, World Bank
Mr. Choi, a Korean national, also represents Australia, Cambodia,
Kiribati, Republic of Korea, Marshall Islands, Federated States of
Micronesia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa,
Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.

Presentation
ARSHAD SAYED
Mongolia Country Manager, World Bank

______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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: "Beyond Disasters: Creating Opportunities for Peace" discussed on July 13 at 12:30-2:00pm in J1-050

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cordially invite you to a book launch:
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| | |
| | |
| | Beyond Disasters: |
| (Embedded image | Creating Opportunities for Peace |
| moved to file: | |
| pic07208.jpg) | This book examines the recent |
| | experiences of Indonesia?s Aceh |
| | province, Sri Lanka, and Kashmir, |
| | among others, and suggests ways to |
| | better integrate disaster and conflict |
| | responses. The authors note that the |
| | human toll taken by natural disasters |
| | is increasing, adding to the list of |
| | deadly challenges faced by poor |
| | communities and countries worldwide. |
| | Recorded disasters nearly doubled |
| | between 1987 and 2006, while the |
| | number of people affected by these |
| | disasters increased more than 10 |
| | percent. Women, children, and the |
| | elderly are among those most |
| | vulnerable. The report concludes that |
| | the intersection of disasters, |
| | conflict, and peacemaking requires |
| | interdisciplinary responses from |
| | governments, international donors, and |
| | civil society. |
| | |
| | |
|-----------------------+------------------------------------------|

Friday, July 13, 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

Welcoming remarks
Rakesh Nangia
Acting Vice President, World Bank Institute

Chair
Saroj Kumar Jha
Program Manager, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR),
World Bank Group
Saroj Kumar Jha provides strategic guidance and policy advice for
the World Bank?s disaster prevention and preparedness programs and
is also the program manager of the GFDRR. Prior to joining the Bank,
he was a member of the Indian Administrative Service and worked with
the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in India and Iran.
He has coordinated a large number of post-disaster humanitarian
relief and long-term recovery and reconstruction projects, and has
worked extensively on the design of early warning systems,
assessments, training and capacity building programs, policy and
institution-building initiatives, and partnerships for disaster
prevention and mitigation in different countries. He holds a degree
in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in
Kanpur and has authored several publications on disaster risk
reduction.
Presenters
Zoë Chafe
Co-Author and Research Associate, Worldwatch Institute
Since joining the Worldwatch Institute in 2003, Zoë Chafe has been a
frequent contributor to Worldwatch publications, including State of
the World, Vital Signs, and World Watch magazine. Her recent work
focuses on carbon markets, natural disaster trends, urbanization,
and strategies for confronting climate change. Prior to joining
Worldwatch Institute, she worked with the Center on Ecotourism and
Sustainable Development in Washington, DC, the Centre for Science
and Environment in New Delhi, the US Forest Service, the Rocky
Mountain Biological Laboratory, and SustainUS.

Michael Renner
Co-Author and Senior Researcher, Worldwatch Institute
Michael Renner joined Worldwatch Institute in 1987. His work focuses
on new concepts of security and the ways in which environmental
degradation and competition over resources can generate conflict and
human insecurity. He co-directed Worldwatch's State of the World
2005 report focused on "Redefining Global Security" and currently
directs its Global Security Project. He has traveled and spoken
extensively on environment and security issues, and has led
discussions with policymakers and parliamentarians at the European
Parliament and the Organization for Co-operation and Security in
Europe (OSCE). He holds degrees in political science and
international relations from the Universities of Konstanz (Germany)
and Amsterdam.
Commentary
Eric Schwartz
Executive Director of Connect US
Prior to joining Connect US in 2007, Eric Schwartz served as UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Deputy Special Envoy for Tsunami
Recovery. Among other positions, he has also served as a lead
expert for the congressionally mandated Mitchell-Gingrich Task Force
on United Nations Reform, second-ranking official at the Office of
the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and a member of the US
National Security Council with responsibilities for a range of
peacekeeping, humanitarian, and refugee issues. He has held
fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson Center, the US Institute of Peace
and the Council on Foreign Relations, and has been a contributor to
the Responsibility to Protect Project of the International
Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. He holds degrees
in law, international relations, and political science from New York
University School of Law, Princeton University, and the State
University of New York at Binghamton.

Ian Bannon
Sector Manager of the Fragile States, Conflict and Social
Development Unit, Africa Region, World Bank
Prior to his current assignment he was manager of the Conflict
Prevention and Reconstruction Unit, and has published widely on
conflict and development themes, including natural resources,
education, social development and gender. He is an economist by
training with experience in South Asia, Africa and Latin America.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Elephant and the Dragon:The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us" discussed at the InfoShop on July 18 at 3:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop & The Development Research Group
Invite you to a book launch of a recent WW Norton publication
The Elephant and the Dragon
The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us
by Robyn Meredith

A compelling look at the major changes in store as America faces increasing
competition from two emerging Asian giants.

Not since the United States rose to prominence a century ago have we seen such
tectonic shifts in global power; but India and China are vastly different
nations, with opposing economic and political strategies?strategies we must
understand in order to survive in the new global economy. The Elephant and the
Dragon tells how these two Asian nations, each with more than a billion people,
have spurred a new ?gold rush,? and what this will mean for the rest of the
world.

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

Moderated by
Will Martin
Lead Economist in the Trade Research Team, World Bank
Before joining the World Bank, Mr. Martin worked as a researcher and manager at
the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and as a Senior
Research Fellow at the Australian National University. He has published
extensively on trade policy and developing countries, with a particular focus on
the World Trade Organization and economic development; global trade reform in
textiles and clothing; and agricultural trade reform. Quantitative analysis of
trade policies is a particular interest. He has published widely using
quantitative models such as the Global Trade Analysis Project, and has a
particular interest in using detailed data to build up a complete picture of the
effects of trade barriers on trade and welfare. He teaches frequently in World
Bank training courses, and is manager of a number of large Bank research
projects.

Presented by Author
Robyn Meredith
Senior Editor, Asia for Forbes Magazine
Robyn Meredith has written cover stories on General Motors, Microsoft, Toyota,
Li & Fung and Infosys. Ms. Meredith joined Forbes as its Detroit Bureau Manager
in April, 2000 to write about the auto industry. One of her Forbes articles was
included in the 2002 Edition of the book "The Best Business Stories of the
Year." From January, 1996 until April, 2000, Ms. Meredith was a Detroit
correspondent for The New York Times, where she covered the auto industry and
other Midwestern news. She spent the 1998-1999 academic year as a
Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan Business School. Ms.
Meredith wrote for USA Today as a business reporter in 1995. She spent the
previous two years as a reporter in the Washington bureau of the American Banker
newspaper, where her reporting exposed a pattern of insider deals at savings and
loans that led to four Congressional hearings and an overhaul of U.S. banking
regulations governing initial public offerings.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: "Spending for Development: Making the Most of Indonesia's New Opportunities - Ten Years after the East Asian Financial Crisis" on July 10 at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop and East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank invite you to a book
launch:

Spending for Development: Making the Most of Indonesia's New Opportunities - Ten
years after the beginning of the East Asian Financial Crisis

In July 1997 the East Asia Financial Crisis started, hitting Indonesia's economy
worse than any other in the region. The country underwent a sharp economic
contraction, pronounced depreciation and inflation rates, and severe political
turmoil. After a decade of successful macroeconomic management, radical
decentralization, and various bold policy decisions, Indonesia is finally in a
position of fiscal strength. Since 2006, Indonesia has freed up "fiscal space"
of about US$15 billion. Equivalent to around 7 percent of GDP, this is the
largest increase in additional fiscal resources since the 1973-74 oil revenue
wind fall, providing a tremendous window of opportunity for Indonesia to upgrade
its public services. If Indonesia is to stay competitive, then it is crucial
that some of these precious additional resources are channeled towards higher
quality and more accessible secondary and tertiary education, an improved and
more equitable health system, and better infrastructure provision.

This book is the first Public Expenditure Review to cover national and
sub-national spending in Indonesia. It sheds light on the impact of the
country's transition towards decentralization and the new ways in which public
resources are now administered and allocated.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007
12:00 pm
World Bank J Building, J1-050
Followed by a light lunch reception

"Indonesia has now entered a new era in which more fiscal resources are
available for the first time since before the economic crisis. We are now facing
problems of success and we need to use the new opportunities to upgrade our
infrastructure, education and health systems. While there are no easy answers,
this report provides valuable assistance in assessing the best ways forward if
Indonesia is to achieve its national development goals in the next few years."
Prof Ali Wardhana ─ Former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for
Economics, Finance, Industry and Development

Chair
Jim Adams
Vice President of the East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank
In his capacity as Vice President, Mr. Adams has overall responsibility for
World Bank operations in one of the world's most dynamic regions, covering more
than a dozen states ranging from the world's most populous country, China, to
the smallest and most remote Pacific Islands states.

Presentation by Author
Wolfgang Fengler
Senior Economist of the Indonesia Resident Mission, World Bank and main author
of "Spending for Development"
Mr. Fengler leads the World Bank's public finance and decentralization program
and has particularly engaged in the Aceh reconstruction program. He, together
with his team, has also produced several regional expenditure reviews, led the
Aceh and Yogyakarta reconstruction analysis, including the flagship report "Aceh
and Nias one year after the Tsunami". He is also the task manager of past and
present Development Policy Loans.

Panelists
Homi Kharas
Visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution
Mr. Kharas is an internationally respected authority on development economics
and served as the Chief Economist of the East Asia and Pacific Region of the
World Bank from 2001-2007. He has published widely in areas such as external
debt and developing countries, foreign borrowing and fiscal risks and contingent
liabilities. He also co-edited (together with indermit Gill) the recent and
widely acclaimed book, "An East Asian Renaissance: Ideas for Economic Growth".

Vikram Nehru
Director of the Economic Policy and Debt Department, Poverty Reduction &
Economic Management Network, World Bank
Mr. Nehru was the former Lead Economist for the World Bank's Indonesia Program
during and after the East Asian financial crisis (1997-2002). He has led most
of crisis and post-crisis economic dialogue for the World Bank in Indonesia and
published reports such as: "Indonesia: Imperative for Reform", "Indonesia:
Seizing the Opportunity", "Indonesia: From Crisis to Opportunity", "Indonesia in
Crisis". He has also had extensive research experience on issues of economic
growth, capital stock measurement, financial sector policy, industrial and trade
policy, and on the implications of global trends and developments on the
economic prospects of developing countries.

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

"Elephant and the Dragon:The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us" discussed at the InfoShop on July 18 at 3:00pm in J1-050

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&
The Development Research Group
Invite you to a book launch of a recent WW Norton publication
|---------------------------+--------------------------------------|
| | |
| | |
| | The Elephant and the Dragon |
| | The Rise of India and China and What |
| (Embedded image | It Means for All of Us |
| moved to file: | by Robyn Meredith |
| pic05535.jpg) | |
| | A compelling look at the major |
| | changes in store as America faces |
| | increasing competition from two |
| | emerging Asian giants. |
| | |
| | |
| | Not since the United States rose to |
| | prominence a century ago have we |
| | seen such tectonic shifts in global |
| | power; but India and China are |
| | vastly different nations, with |
| | opposing economic and political |
| | strategies?strategies we must |
| | understand in order to survive in |
| | the new global economy. The Elephant |
| | and the Dragon tells how these two |
| | Asian nations, each with more than a |
| | billion people, have spurred a new |
| | ?gold rush,? and what this will mean |
| | for the rest of the world. |
| | |
|---------------------------+--------------------------------------|

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

Moderated by
Will Martin
Lead Economist in the Trade Research Team, World Bank
Before joining the World Bank, Mr. Martin worked as a researcher and
manager at the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource
Economics, and as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian
National University. He has published extensively on trade policy
and developing countries, with a particular focus on the World Trade
Organization and economic development; global trade reform in
textiles and clothing; and agricultural trade reform. Quantitative
analysis of trade policies is a particular interest. He has
published widely using quantitative models such as the Global Trade
Analysis Project, and has a particular interest in using detailed
data to build up a complete picture of the effects of trade barriers
on trade and welfare. He teaches frequently in World Bank training
courses, and is manager of a number of large Bank research projects.

Presented by Author
Robyn Meredith
Senior Editor, Asia for Forbes Magazine
Robyn Meredith has written cover stories on General Motors,
Microsoft, Toyota, Li & Fung and Infosys. Ms. Meredith joined
Forbes as its Detroit Bureau Manager in April, 2000 to write about
the auto industry. One of her Forbes articles was included in the
2002 Edition of the book "The Best Business Stories of the Year."
From January, 1996 until April, 2000, Ms. Meredith was a Detroit
correspondent for The New York Times, where she covered the auto
industry and other Midwestern news. She spent the 1998-1999
academic year as a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of
Michigan Business School. Ms. Meredith wrote for USA Today as a
business reporter in 1995. She spent the previous two years as a
reporter in the Washington bureau of the American Banker newspaper,
where her reporting exposed a pattern of insider deals at savings
and loans that led to four Congressional hearings and an overhaul of
U.S. banking regulations governing initial public offerings.
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INVITATION: Presentation by Sir David King, Chief Scientific Advisor for the United Kingdom on July 11 at 10:30am in the Preston Auditorium, World Bank

The Africa Region of the World Bank, HDNED, and the British Embassy Presents
Professor Sir King David For a Presentation Entitled
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION AND WEALTH CREATION:
SKILLS AND CAPACITY BUILDING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Wednesday, July 11, 2007
10:30am
Preston Auditorium
1818 H Street
Washington, DC 20433
RSVPs with names and organisations need to go to Ms. Oni Lusk-Stover at
oluskstover@worldbank.org.

Sir David King is Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government and Head of the
Office of Science and Innovation. Sir David has written extensively and
passionately about the central role that science, technology and innovation
capacity building must play in Africa?s poverty reduction and economic
development strategies. He argues that the goals outlined in both the Blair
Commission for Africa and the Gleneagles Summit Declaration can be achieved only
if Africa embarks on a vigorous science and technology capacity building effort.
Anything less will be a ?recipe for disappointment.?

SIR DAVID KING, FRS
Sir David was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) to HM Government and Head
of the Office of Science and Technology on 1 October 2000. The Office of Science
and Technology became The Office of Science and Innovation following a merger
with DTI's Innovation Group on 3 April 2006. Prior to this appointment, he was
head of the Department of Chemistry and Master of Downing College, University of
Cambridge. He is a Fellow of Queens' College, University of Cambridge. He
continues as Director of Research, at the University of Cambridge.

He advises the Prime Minister directly on scientific issues and in 2001 chaired
the Foot and Mouth Disease Science Panel and in 2003 the GM Science Review
Panel. He chairs a number of other committees including: the; Chief Scientific
Adviser's Committee (CSAC); the Global Science and Innovation Forum (GSIF); and
co-chairs the Energy Research Partnership (ERP) and the Council for Science and
Technology. He was heavily involved in producing the UK's ten-year Science and
Innovation Framework, 2004-2014. He runs the Government's Foresight Programme.

He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991, Foreign Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002 and a Knight Bachelor in 2003. He
was made an Honorary Life Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, 2006.

Previous academic appointments include: Teaching Assistant, University of
Witwatersrand from 1961 to 1962; Shell Postgraduate Scholar, Imperial College,
London from 1963- 1966; Lecturer in Chemical Physics, University of East Anglia
from 1966 - 1974; Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Liverpool from
1974 - 1988; and 1920 Professor of Physical Chemistry from 1988-2005, University
of Cambridge, from 1988 - present. He has undertaken a number of consultancies
for both national and international organisations.

Between 1967 and 2006 Sir David has given over 250 invited lectures at
international conferences, symposia, workshops and summer schools on his
research. He has published over 450 papers in scientific journals, including
twenty in the past year. As Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government, he has
given over 300 lectures related to science in government. These include venues
throughout the EU, Australia, USA, Japan, China, Russia, Korea, South Africa,
India, Brazil, Canada and Singapore. In 2002 he delivered the Ninth Zuckerman
Lecture, on "The Science of Climate Change: Adapt, Mitigate or Ignore?", at The
Royal Society. He delivered subsequently the Greenpeace Business Lecture, 2004
and the Magna Carta Lecture to the Australian Parliament, 2005. He published
"The Scientific Impact of Nations" in Nature 430, 311 (2004) and "Climate
Change: the science and the policy" in Journal of Applied Ecology 42, 779-783
(2005). Contributed to a chapter on 'Climate-change Policy' Edited by Dieter
Helm and published by Oxford University Press (2005).

REMINDER: "Spending for Development: Making the Most of Indonesia's New Opportunities - Ten Years after the East Asian Financial Crisis" on July 10 at 12:00pm in J1-050

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East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank
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| | |
| | Spending for Development: |
| | Making the Most of Indonesia's New |
| (Embedded image moved to | Opportunities |
| file: pic18662.jpg) | Ten years after the beginning of |
| | the East Asian Financial Crisis |
| | |
| | In July 1997 the East Asia |
| | Financial Crisis started, hitting |
| | Indonesia's economy worse than any |
| | other in the region. The country |
| Tuesday, July 10 , 2007 | underwent a sharp economic |
| 12:00 pm | contraction, pronounced |
| World Bank J Building, | depreciation and inflation rates, |
| J1-050 | and severe political turmoil. |
| Followed by a light lunch | After a decade of successful |
| reception | macroeconomic management, radical |
| | decentralization, and various bold |
| | policy decisions, Indonesia is |
| | finally in a position of fiscal |
| | strength. Since 2006, Indonesia |
| | has freed up "fiscal space" of |
| | about US$15 billion. Equivalent to |
| | around 7 percent of GDP, this is |
| | the largest increase in additional |
| | fiscal resources since the 1973-74 |
| | oil revenue wind fall, providing a |
| | tremendous window of opportunity |
| | for Indonesia to upgrade its |
| | public services. If Indonesia is |
| | to stay competitive, then it is |
| | crucial that some of these |
| | precious additional resources are |
| | channeled towards higher quality |
| | and more accessible secondary and |
| | tertiary education, an improved |
| | and more equitable health system, |
| | and better infrastructure |
| | provision. |
| | |
| | This book is the first Public |
| | Expenditure Review to cover |
| | national and sub-national spending |
| | in Indonesia. It sheds light on |
| | the impact of the country's |
| | transition towards |
| | decentralization and the new ways |
| | in which public resources are now |
| | administered and allocated. |
| | |
|-----------------------------+------------------------------------|

"Indonesia has now entered a new era in which more fiscal resources
are available for the first time since before the economic crisis.
We are now facing problems of success and we need to use the new
opportunities to upgrade our infrastructure, education and health
systems. While there are no easy answers, this report provides
valuable assistance in assessing the best ways forward if Indonesia
is to achieve its national development goals in the next few years."
Prof Ali Wardhana ─ Former Minister of Finance and Coordinating
Minister for Economics, Finance, Industry and Development

Chair
Jim Adams
Vice President of the East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank
In his capacity as Vice President, Mr. Adams has overall
responsibility for World Bank operations in one of the world's most
dynamic regions, covering more than a dozen states ranging from the
world's most populous country, China, to the smallest and most
remote Pacific Islands states.

Presentation by Author
Wolfgang Fengler
Senior Economist of the Indonesia Resident Mission, World Bank and
main author of "Spending for Development"
Mr. Fengler leads the World Bank's public finance and
decentralization program and has particularly engaged in the Aceh
reconstruction program. He, together with his team, has also
produced several regional expenditure reviews, led the Aceh and
Yogyakarta reconstruction analysis, including the flagship report
"Aceh and Nias one year after the Tsunami". He is also the task
manager of past and present Development Policy Loans.

Panelists
Homi Kharas
Visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution
Mr. Kharas is an internationally respected authority on development
economics and served as the Chief Economist of the East Asia and
Pacific Region of the World Bank from 2001-2007. He has published
widely in areas such as external debt and developing countries,
foreign borrowing and fiscal risks and contingent liabilities. He
also co-edited (together with indermit Gill) the recent and widely
acclaimed book, "An East Asian Renaissance: Ideas for Economic
Growth".

Vikram Nehru
Director of the Economic Policy and Debt Department, Poverty
Reduction & Economic Management Network, World Bank
Mr. Nehru was the former Lead Economist for the World Bank's
Indonesia Program during and after the East Asian financial crisis
(1997-2002). He has led most of crisis and post-crisis economic
dialogue for the World Bank in Indonesia and published reports such
as: "Indonesia: Imperative for Reform", "Indonesia: Seizing the
Opportunity", "Indonesia: From Crisis to Opportunity", "Indonesia in
Crisis". He has also had extensive research experience on issues of
economic growth, capital stock measurement, financial sector policy,
industrial and trade policy, and on the implications of global
trends and developments on the economic prospects of developing
countries.

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

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