Reminder: "Informality: Exit and Exclusion in Latin America" discussed at the InfoShop on September 4 at 11:00 am in J1-050

InfoShop & Latin America and the Caribbean Department

Invite you to a debate focusing on how informality impacts development, and
highlighting the economic and individual costs of informality for poor and
vulnerable people in Latin America and the Caribbean working outside the formal
economy.

Informality: Exit and Exclusion in Latin America
by Guillermo E. Perry, William F. Maloney, Omar Arias, Pablo Fajnzylber, Andrew
Mason, Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi

Informality in Latin American and Caribbean countries has been a growing
phenomenon over the last few decades, garnering attention as a potential brake
on growth and on improvements in family welfare, and as a force corrosive to the
integrity of society.
Informality: Exit and Exclusion analyzes informality in Latin America, exploring
root causes and reasons for and implications of its growth.
The study concludes that reducing informality levels will require actions to
increase aggregate productivity in the economy, reform poorly designed
regulations and social policies, and increase the legitimacy of the state.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
11:00 a.m.
For non bank staff, please RSVP to infoShopevents@worldbank.org
World Bank J Building, J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served

Presented by
Guillermo Perry
Retiring World Bank Regional Chief Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean
Region, World Bank
Guillermo Perry has been Chief Economist of the Latin America and the Caribbean
Region at the World Bank since 1996. Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr. Perry
served in several senior policy-making positions in his native country,
Colombia, including that of Minister of Finance and Public Credit; Minister of
Mining and Energy; and Director of the General Directorate of National Taxes.
He served as a member of the Constitutional Assembly and of the Senate of the
Republic in Colombia. He was also Director of two of Colombia?s leading
economic think-tanks (Fedesarrollo and CEDE) and has been professor at
Universidad de los Andes and Universidad Nacional de Colombia. For more
information, please click here: Guillermo Perry Bio.

William Maloney
Lead Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
William F. Maloney is Lead Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist, Latin
America and the Caribbean Region of the World Bank. Before joining the Bank
permanently, he was Professor of International and Development Economics at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1990-1997). He also served as a
consultant for the Bank on Mexico (1994-95) and Nigeria (1986) and the Harvard
Kennedy School of Government (1982). Mr. Maloney has published on issues related
to international trade, the impact and sequencing of liberalization, speculative
attacks on currencies, and developing country labor markets. For more
information, please click here: William Maloney bio

Comments by
Liliana Rojas-Suarez
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Liliana Rojas-Suarez is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development.
She is also the Chair of the Latin American Shadow Financial Regulatory
Committee(CLAFF). From March 1998 to October 2000, she served as Managing
Director and Chief Economist for Latin America at Deutsche Bank. Before joining
Deutsche Bank, Ms. Rojas-Suarez was the Principal Advisor in the Office of the
Chief Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank. Between 1984-1994 she
held various positions at the International Monetary Fund, most recently as
Deputy Chief of the Capital Markets and Financial Studies Division of the
Research Department. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for
International Economics and has also served as a Professor at Anahuac University
in Mexico and an Advisor for PEMEX, Mexico's National Petroleum Company. Ms.
Rojas-Suarez has also testified before a Joint Committee of the US Senate on the
issue of dollarization in Latin America. Ms. Rojas-Suarez has published widely
in the areas of macroeconomic policy, international economics and financial
markets. For more information, please click here: Liliana Rojas-Suarez

Maria Claudia Camacho
Specialist, Department of Social Development and Employment, Organization of
American States
Maria Claudia Camacho is a Labor Specialist in the Department of Social
Development and Employment at the Organization of American States (OAS). In her
current position, she is in charge of coordinating the activities related to the
Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor, which aims to set the
hemispheric policy priorities and actions on labor issues. Before joining the
OAS, Ms. Camacho worked as a consultant for the World Bank on a project
regarding youth programs and policies. In Colombia, her home country, she worked
at the Red de Solidaridad Social and UNDP, designing and evaluating programs
aimed at addressing the needs of vulnerable groups. Her academic, personal and
professional interests have been focused on labor markets in Latin America and
on the challenges presented by the informal economy.
Moderated by

Sergio Jellinek
Communications Advisor, Latin America and the Caribbean External Affairs
Department, World Bank
Sergio Alvaro Jellinek was recently appointed as Communications Advisor for the
Latin America and the Caribbean Region at the World Bank. Before holding this
position, he was the Communications Advisor for Sustainable Development at the
World Bank. Working in the Latin America and the Caribbean Vice-Presidency, Mr.
Jellinek oversees communications for the Bank?s entire action field within the
region. He is also a founder of Com+ Alliance, which is a partnership of
international organizations and communications professionals who are committed
to using communications to advance a vision of sustainable development that
integrates its three pillars: economic, social, and environmental, and that
works worldwide. He has extensive experience in developing countries both as a
working journalist and as an advisor to international organizations.
For more information or to order the report, please visit:
http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=6532716
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: "Informality: Exit and Exclusion in Latin America" discussed at the InfoShop on September 4 at 11:00 am in J1-050

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&
Latin America and the Caribbean Region

Invite you to a debate focusing on how informality impacts
development, and highlighting the economic and individual costs of
informality for poor and vulnerable people in Latin America and the
Caribbean working outside the formal economy.
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| | by Guillermo E. Perry, William F. |
| | Maloney, Omar Arias, Pablo |
| | Fajnzylber, Andrew Mason, Jaime |
| | Saavedra-Chanduvi |
| | |
| | Informality in Latin American and |
| | Caribbean countries has been a |
| | growing phenomenon over the last |
| | few decades, garnering attention |
| | as a potential brake on growth and |
| | on improvements in family welfare, |
| | and as a force corrosive to the |
| | integrity of society. |
| | Informality: Exit and Exclusion |
| | analyzes informality in Latin |
| | America, exploring root causes and |
| | reasons for and implications of |
| | its growth. |
| | The study concludes that reducing |
| | informality levels will require |
| | actions to increase aggregate |
| | productivity in the economy, |
| | reform poorly designed regulations |
| | and social policies, and increase |
| | the legitimacy of the state. |
| | |
|-----------------------------+------------------------------------|

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
11:00 a.m.
World Bank J Building, J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served

Presented by
Guillermo Perry
Retiring World Bank Regional Chief Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean
Region, World Bank
Guillermo Perry has been Chief Economist of the Latin America and
the Caribbean Region at the World Bank since 1996. Prior to joining
the World Bank, Mr. Perry served in several senior policy-making
positions in his native country, Colombia, including that of
Minister of Finance and Public Credit; Minister of Mining and
Energy; and Director of the General Directorate of National Taxes.
He served as a member of the Constitutional Assembly and of the
Senate of the Republic in Colombia. He was also Director of two of
Colombia?s leading economic think-tanks (Fedesarrollo and CEDE) and
has been professor at Universidad de los Andes and Universidad
Nacional de Colombia. For more information, please click here:
Guillermo Perry Bio.

William Maloney
Lead Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
William F. Maloney is Lead Economist in the Office of the Chief
Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region of the World Bank.
Before joining the Bank permanently, he was Professor of
International and Development Economics at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1990-1997). He also served as a
consultant for the Bank on Mexico (1994-95) and Nigeria (1986) and
the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (1982). Mr. Maloney has
published on issues related to international trade, the impact and
sequencing of liberalization, speculative attacks on currencies, and
developing country labor markets. For more information, please click
here: William Maloney bio

Comments by
Liliana Rojas-Suarez
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Liliana Rojas-Suarez is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global
Development. She is also the Chair of the Latin American Shadow
Financial Regulatory Committee(CLAFF). From March 1998 to October
2000, she served as Managing Director and Chief Economist for Latin
America at Deutsche Bank. Before joining Deutsche Bank, Ms.
Rojas-Suarez was the Principal Advisor in the Office of the Chief
Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank. Between 1984-1994
she held various positions at the International Monetary Fund, most
recently as Deputy Chief of the Capital Markets and Financial
Studies Division of the Research Department. She has been a Visiting
Fellow at the Institute for International Economics and has also
served as a Professor at Anahuac University in Mexico and an Advisor
for PEMEX, Mexico's National Petroleum Company. Ms. Rojas-Suarez has
also testified before a Joint Committee of the US Senate on the
issue of dollarization in Latin America. Ms. Rojas-Suarez has
published widely in the areas of macroeconomic policy, international
economics and financial markets. For more information, please click
here: Liliana Rojas-Suarez

Maria Claudia Camacho
Specialist, Department of Social Development and Employment, Organization of
American States
Maria Claudia Camacho is a Labor Specialist in the Department of
Social Development and Employment at the Organization of American
States (OAS). In her current position, she is in charge of
coordinating the activities related to the Inter-American Conference
of Ministers of Labor, which aims to set the hemispheric policy
priorities and actions on labor issues. Before joining the OAS, Ms.
Camacho worked as a consultant for the World Bank on a project
regarding youth programs and policies. In Colombia, her home
country, she worked at the Red de Solidaridad Social and UNDP,
designing and evaluating programs aimed at addressing the needs of
vulnerable groups. Her academic, personal and professional
interests have been focused on labor markets in Latin America and on
the challenges presented by the informal economy.

Moderated by
Sergio Jellinek
Communications Advisor, Latin America and the Caribbean External Affairs
Department, World Bank
Sergio Alvaro Jellinek was recently appointed as Communications
Advisor for the Latin America and the Caribbean Region at the World
Bank. Before holding this position, he was the Communications
Advisor for Sustainable Development at the World Bank. Working in
the Latin America and the Caribbean Vice-Presidency, Mr. Jellinek
oversees communications for the Bank?s entire action field within
the region. He is also a founder of Com+ Alliance, which is a
partnership of international organizations and communications
professionals who are committed to using communications to advance a
vision of sustainable development that integrates its three pillars:
economic, social, and environmental, and that works worldwide. He
has extensive experience in developing countries both as a working
journalist and as an advisor to international organizations.

For more information or to order the report, please visit:

http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=6532716

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: Film Screening "Billion Dollar Bonfire" on Thursday, August 30 at 12:00pm in J1-050

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The InfoShop, Oil, Gas, Mining and Chemicals Department, Sustainable Development

Network,

Africa Region External Affairs Department, and Global Gas Flaring Reduction

Partnership

cordially invite you to the screening of a TVE/BBC documentary on gas flaring,
featuring Nigeria and Russia
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| | |
| | |
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| to file: | Billion Dollar Bonfire |
| pic03396.jpg) | The flaring and venting of Natural Gas is |
| | wasting valuable resources and contributing to |
| 150 billion cubic | climate change. |
| meters of gas are | |
| burnt off or 'flared' | The World Bank's Global Gas Flaring Reduction |
| every year - enough | partnership estimates that 150 billion cubic |
| to generate half of | meters of gas are burnt off or 'flared' every |
| the electricity | year - enough to supply the whole of the United |
| currently produced in | States for three months. And the 40 bcm of gas |
| Africa. | burned in Africa annually could generate half of |
| | the electricity currently produced in that |
| | continent. |
| | |
| | Gas flaring and venting also puts about 400 |
| | million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the |
| | atmosphere every year. |
| | |
| | A new programme in TVE's Earth Report series, |
| | which run on BBC World, goes to Russia and |
| | Nigeria to assess the scale of the problem and |
| | to examine possible solutions. |
| | |
| | Billion Dollar Bonfire, TVE's Earth Report |
| | series, which ran on BBC World, was produced |
| | with the support of The World Bank?s Global Gas |
| | Flaring Reduction Partnership. |
| | |
| | A brief discussion following the showing of the |
| | documentary will focus on: |
| | How gas flaring reduction and gas utilization |
| | fit into the new energy matrix |
| | Gas utilization potential contributions to |
| | climate change mitigation and energy security |
| | The World Bank's GGFR role in global gas |
| | flaring reduction |
| | Challenges and opportunities for the period |
| | 2007-2009 |
| | |
| | |
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| | |
| | |
| Thursday, August 30, | |
| 2007 | |
| 12:00 - 1:00pm | |
| World Bank J | |
| Building, Auditorium | |
| J1-050 | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
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Introductory Remarks
Kristalina I. Georgieva
Director
Strategy and Operations, and Acting VP
Sustainable Development Network
World Bank

Chair
Somit Varma
Director of Oil, Gas, and Mining
World Bank

Brief Discussion and Q&A
Bent Svensson
Lead Energy Economist and Manager
Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership (GGFR)
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About GGFR
In 2002 the World Bank and the Government of Norway started the
Global Gas Flaring Reduction (GGFR) initiative, which now has 12
country partners and 10 industrial partners, including the world?s
largest petroleum companies. GGFR?s main goal is to bring all major
stakeholders around the table so that they can together reduce the
barriers to eliminate gas flaring to minimum levels. These main
barriers include lack of an effective regulatory framework for
associated gas utilization, lack of markets and lack of
infrastructure to take the gas to those markets.

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 on gas global gas flaring, visit:

www.worldbank.org-ggfr

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

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

"Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform" on Wednesday, September 12 at noon in J1-050

InfoShop, The Global HIV/AIDS Program, Human Development Network
invites you to a book launch of a recent World Bank publication

Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform
Written by a team of eminent legal scholars and practitioners, this book
summarizes key legal and policy issues for 65 wide-ranging topics related to
HIV/AIDS. The concise format will be useful for policy makers, HIV/AIDS
practitioners, lawyers, the media and others seeking clear, precise information.
The Guide shows how laws and regulations can either underpin or undermine good
public health programs and responsible personal behaviors. It provides relevant
?practice examples? (citing from actual laws and regulations) and offers
selective lists of references.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
12:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served

For non bank staff, please rsvp to infoShopevents@worldbank.org
.______________________________________________________________________
Introduced by
JOY PHUMAPHI
Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank
Prior to joining the Bank, Ms. Phumaphi worked at the World Health Organization
as the Assistant Director General for the Family and Community Health
Department. Before that, she served in the Parliament and as Minister for
Health of Botswana.

Presented by Authors
LANCE GABLE
Assistant Professor of Law , Wayne State University.
Mr. Gable is co-editor (with David Buchanan and Celia Fisher) of Ethical and
Legal Issues in Research with High Risk Populations: Addressing Threats of
Suicide, Child Abuse, and Violence (forthcoming 2007), author of numerous
professional journal articles, reports, and other publications, and was guest
editor (with Lawrence O. Gostin and Colleen Flood) of the symposium issue
Legislating and Litigating Health Care Rights Around the World.

KATHARINA GAMHARTER
Counsel
Ms. Gamharter has served as Counsel/Legal Associate in the Environment &
International Law Practice Group as well as the Latin America Operational
Practice Group, World Bank Legal Vice Presidency. She is the author of Access
to Affordable Medicines: Developing Responses under the TRIPS Agreement and EC
Law (2004), and other publications and professional journal articles related to
trade law and intellectual property. Previously she was Assistant Professor at
the Europainstitut, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

LAWRENCE GOSTIN
Associate Dean and O?Neill Professor of Global Health Law, Georgetown University
Mr. Gostin is Member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
(lifetime), Editor (Health Law and Ethics), Journal of the American Medical
Association, Co-Editor, Georgetown University Press book series, Ethics, Health,
and Public Policy, and a member of the Editorial Board or Editorial Advisory
Board of 20 professional journals. He is the author of The AIDS Pandemic:
Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations, and the author, co-author,
or co-editor of over 30 other books or monographs as well as author or co-author
of well over 100 professional journal articles in the health field.

JAMES HODGE, JR.
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Executive
Director, Centers for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown and Johns
Hopkins Universities; and Adjunct Faculty, Georgetown University Law Center
Mr. Hodge teaches and lectures extensively in public health law,bioethics, and
health information privacy, has authored (or co-authored)over 75 articles in
professional journals and over 50 reports and other publications on public
health law, bioethics, and human rights.

RUDOLF VAN PUYMBROECK
Independent adviser on health law and international development and Adjunct
Faculty,Georgetown University
Mr. Van Puymbroeck was formerly Lead Counsel, Public Health and HIV/AIDS, Legal
Advisory Services, World Bank Legal Vice Presidency. He is a member of the
World Bank?s Editorial Committee, former member of the World Bank?s Research
Committee (2000-2003), and co-author (with Frederick M. Abbott) of Compulsory
Licensing for Public Health: A Guide and Model Documents for Implementation of
the Doha Declaration Paragraph 6 Decision. He is former Editor of Comprehensive
Legal and Judicial Development: Toward an Agenda for a Just and Equitable
Society in the 21st Century, The World Bank Legal Review: Law and Justice for
Development, and the Law, Justice and Development series.

Comments by
DEBREWORK ZEWDIE
Director, Global HIV/AIDS Program, World Bank
Ms. Zewdie is the Director of the Global HIV/AIDS Program for the World Bank.
She was recruited to this position from the Africa Region of the Bank where she
managed the AIDS Campaign Team for Africa (ACTafrica), which is responsible for
the US$1 billion Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program (MAP I and II) for Africa.
Before joining the Bank in 1994, Ms. Zewdie was Deputy Regional Director of the
Africa Region for the AIDS Control and Prevention project (AIDSCAP) of Family
Health International in Nairobi, Kenya and worked in sixteen African countries.

For more information or to order the book, please click on the link below:
http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=6552486
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

(See attached file: The Global HIV_AIDS invite.pdf)

"Crime, Violence and Development: Trends, Costs and Policy Options in the Caribbean" discussed at the InfoShop on September 10 at 12:00 pm in J1-050

InfoShop & The Knowledge and Learning Team, Latin America and the Caribbean
Region

Invite you to a book launch featuring a recent publication

Crime, Violence and Development
Trends, Costs and Policy Options in the Caribbean
by Andrew Morrison, Bernice van Bronkhorst, Gabriel Demombynes and Ted Leggett

Many Caribbean governments spend between one and four percent of their GDP
fighting crime and violence in their country. At the core of these high rates of
crime lies narcotics trafficking, which accounts for many crimes perpetrated in
the Caribbean and makes the region number one in terms of murder rates globally.

Caribbean countries are not producers of cocaine, but constitute major transit
points in the global narcotics trade. Hence, many of the issues of crime and
violence faced by Caribbean countries transcend national boundaries and require
a strong coordinated regional and international response.
Monday, September 10, 2007
12:00 p.m.
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
A light lunch will be served

Moderated by
Caroline Anstey
Country Director, Caribbean Country Management Unit, World Bank
Ms. Anstey joined the World Bank in 1995. Since then, she has held various
positions including Assistant and Speechwriter to the President, James D.
Wolfensohn, Director of Media, and Chief Spokesperson for the World Bank. In
her current position, Ms. Anstey is responsible for leading the Bank's policy
dialogue, assistance strategy, program delivery and overall relationship in the
countries of the Caribbean, in close collaboration with sector and country
colleagues. Prior to joining the Bank, Ms. Anstey worked for six years as
editor of the BBC flagship weekly current affairs program "Analysis." Before
joining the BBC, Ms. Anstey worked as a political assistant to the Rt. Hon James
Callaghan MP. She has served for over 20 years as Secretariat member of the
InterAction Council.

Presented by
Gabriel Demombynes
Economist, Poverty and Gender Group, Latin American and the Caribbean Region,
World Bank
Gabriel Demombynes is an Economist in the Poverty and Gender Group in the Latin
American and the Caribbean Region. He has published journal articles on poverty
mapping, poverty and growth analysis, and risk factors for crime. At the Bank,
his work has included research on crime in Jamaica, along with contributions to
studies on informal labor and on rural poverty in Argentina. Previous to his
current position, he was economy policy advisor to Howard Dean during his U.S.
presidential campaign in 2003-04.

Bernice K. van Bronkhorst
Urban Specialist, Latin and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Bernice van Bronkhorst is an urban specialist in the urban and water cluster in
the Latin American and the Caribbean Region. She has also worked in various
sectors and country units at the World Bank, including the private sector and
infrastructure unit and the poverty reduction and economic management sector.
Prior to coming to the World Bank, she was a lecturer in gender studies at
Regent's College in London, U.K.

Ambassador Curtis A. Ward
Former Ambassador of Jamaica
Ambassador Curtis Ward was appointed in May 2002 to serve as an Expert Advisor
to the UN?s Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC). The CTC is a unique body created
by the UN Security Council post- 9/11 and tasked with monitoring all states in
establishing the mandatory measures of SCR 1373 to prevent and suppress
international terrorism. Prior to joining the CTC, Mr. Ward served as
Ambassador of Jamaica and as Alternate Representative of Jamaica at the United
Nations Security Council from 1 Jan. 2000 to 31 Dec. 2001. Prior to his
appointment in 1999 as Ambassador to the UN, Mr. Ward engaged in private
practice law in Washington, DC for a period of nineteen years. Mr Ward holds
and LLM in International Economic Law from Georgetown University, a J.D. in
International and Commercial Law and a B.A. in Economics and Political Science
from Howard University.

For more information or to order the report, please visit:
http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=146736&theSitePK=258554&contentMDK=21320843&noSURL=Y
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the World Bank Caribbean Country Management Unit
The World Bank Caribbean Country Management Unit (CMU) serves 15 Caribbean
countries and is part of the Latin American and Caribbean region. The Caribbean
CMU is responsible for the Bank's development strategy and programs in the
Caribbean region. For more information on the Bank's programs in the Caribbean,
please visit:
www.worldbank.org/oecs
www.worldbanklorg/ht
www.worldbank.org/do
www.worldbank.org/jm
For more information on the World Bank in Latin American and the Caribbean,
please visit:
www.worldbank.org/lac

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

"Crime, Violence and Development: Trends, Costs and Policy Options in the Caribbean" discussed at the InfoShop on September 10 at 12:00 pm in J1-050

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&
The Knowledge and Learning Team, Latin America and the Caribbean
Region

Invite you to a book launch featuring a recent publication
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| | |
| (Embedded image | Crime, Violence and Development |
| moved to file: | Trends, Costs and Policy Options in the |
| pic08925.jpg) | Caribbean |
| | by Andrew Morrison, Bernice van Bronkhorst, |
| | Gabriel Demombynes and Ted Leggett |
| | |
| | Many Caribbean governments spend between one |
| | and four percent of their GDP fighting crime |
| | and violence in their country. At the core |
| | of these high rates of crime lies narcotics |
| | trafficking, which accounts for many crimes |
| | perpetrated in the Caribbean and makes the |
| | region number one in terms of murder rates |
| | globally. |
| | |
| | Caribbean countries are not producers of |
| | cocaine, but constitute major transit points |
| | in the global narcotics trade. Hence, many |
| | of the issues of crime and violence faced by |
| | Caribbean countries transcend national |
| | boundaries and require a strong coordinated |
| | regional and international response. |
| | |
| | |
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Monday, September 10, 2007
12:00 p.m.
World Bank J Building, J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served

Moderated by
Caroline Anstey
Country Director, Caribbean Country Management Unit, World Bank
Ms. Anstey joined the World Bank in 1995. Since then, she has held
various positions including Assistant and Speechwriter to the
President, James D. Wolfensohn, Director of Media, and Chief
Spokesperson for the World Bank. In her current position, Ms.
Anstey is responsible for leading the Bank's policy dialogue,
assistance strategy, program delivery and overall relationship in
the countries of the Caribbean, in close collaboration with sector
and country colleagues. Prior to joining the Bank, Ms. Anstey
worked for six years as editor of the BBC flagship weekly current
affairs program "Analysis." Before joining the BBC, Ms. Anstey
worked as a political assistant to the Rt. Hon James Callaghan MP.
She has served for over 20 years as Secretariat member of the
InterAction Council.

Presented by
Gabriel Demombynes
Economist, Poverty and Gender Group, Latin American and the
Caribbean Region, World Bank
Gabriel Demombynes is an Economist in the Poverty and Gender Group
in the Latin American and the Caribbean Region. He has published
journal articles on poverty mapping, poverty and growth analysis,
and risk factors for crime. At the Bank, his work has included
research on crime in Jamaica, along with contributions to studies on
informal labor and on rural poverty in Argentina. Previous to his
current position, he was economy policy advisor to Howard Dean
during his U.S. presidential campaign in 2003-04.

Bernice K. van Bronkhorst
Urban Specialist, Latin and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Bernice van Bronkhorst is an urban specialist in the urban and water
cluster in the Latin American and the Caribbean Region. She has also
worked in various sectors and country units at the World Bank,
including the private sector and infrastructure unit and the poverty
reduction and economic management sector. Prior to coming to the
World Bank, she was a lecturer in gender studies at Regent's College
in London, U.K.

Ambassador Curtis A. Ward
Former Ambassador of Jamaica
Ambassador Curtis Ward was appointed in May 2002 to serve as an
Expert Advisor to the UN?s Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC). The
CTC is a unique body created by the UN Security Council post- 9/11
and tasked with monitoring all states in establishing the mandatory
measures of SCR 1373 to prevent and suppress international
terrorism. Prior to joining the CTC, Mr. Ward served as Ambassador
of Jamaica and as Alternate Representative of Jamaica at the United
Nations Security Council from 1 Jan. 2000 to 31 Dec. 2001. Prior to
his appointment in 1999 as Ambassador to the UN, Mr. Ward engaged in
private practice law in Washington, DC for a period of nineteen
years. Mr Ward holds and LLM in International Economic Law from
Georgetown University, a J.D. in International and Commercial Law
and a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Howard
University.

For more information or to order the report, please visit:
http://web.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=146736&theSitePK=258554&contentMDK=21320843&noSURL=Y

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About the World Bank Caribbean Country Management Unit
The World Bank Caribbean Country Management Unit (CMU) serves 15
Caribbean countries and is part of the Latin American and Caribbean
region. The Caribbean CMU is responsible for the Bank's development
strategy and programs in the Caribbean region. For more information
on the Bank's programs in the Caribbean, please visit:

www.worldbank.org/oecs

www.worldbanklorg/ht

www.worldbank.org/do

www.worldbank.org/jm

For more information on the World Bank in Latin American and the
Caribbean, please visit:

www.worldbank.org/lac

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:

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"Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform" on Wednesday, September 12 at noon in J1-050

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The Global HIV/AIDS Program, Human Development Network

invites you to a book launch of a recent World Bank publication
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| | Written by a team of eminent legal |
| | scholars and practitioners, this book |
| | summarizes key legal and policy issues |
| | for 65 wide-ranging topics related to |
| | HIV/AIDS. The concise format will be |
| | useful for policy makers, HIV/AIDS |
| | practitioners, lawyers, the media and |
| | others seeking clear, precise |
| | information. The Guide shows how laws |
| | and regulations can either underpin or |
| | undermine good public health programs |
| | and responsible personal behaviors. It |
| | provides relevant ?practice examples? |
| | (citing from actual laws and |
| | regulations) and offers selective lists |
| | of references. |
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
12:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served

_________________________________________________________________________________
Introduced by
JOY PHUMAPHI
Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank
Prior to joining the Bank, Ms. Phumaphi worked at the World Health
Organization as the Assistant Director General for the Family and
Community Health Department. Before that, she served in the
Parliament and as Minister for Health of Botswana.

Presented by Authors
LANCE GABLE
Assistant Professor of Law , Wayne State University.
Mr. Gable is co-editor (with David Buchanan and Celia Fisher) of
Ethical and Legal Issues in Research with High Risk Populations:
Addressing Threats of Suicide, Child Abuse, and Violence
(forthcoming 2007), author of numerous professional journal
articles, reports, and other publications, and was guest editor
(with Lawrence O. Gostin and Colleen Flood) of the symposium issue
Legislating and Litigating Health Care Rights Around the World.

KATHARINA GAMHARTER
Counsel
Ms. Gamharter has served as Counsel/Legal Associate in the
Environment & International Law Practice Group as well as the Latin
America Operational Practice Group, World Bank Legal Vice
Presidency. She is the author of Access to Affordable Medicines:
Developing Responses under the TRIPS Agreement and EC Law (2004),
and other publications and professional journal articles related to
trade law and intellectual property. Previously she was Assistant
Professor at the Europainstitut, Vienna University of Economics and
Business Administration.

LAWRENCE GOSTIN
Associate Dean and O?Neill Professor of Global Health Law, Georgetown University
Mr. Gostin is Member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy
of Sciences (lifetime), Editor (Health Law and Ethics), Journal of
the American Medical Association, Co-Editor, Georgetown University
Press book series, Ethics, Health, and Public Policy, and a member
of the Editorial Board or Editorial Advisory Board of 20
professional journals. He is the author of The AIDS Pandemic:
Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations, and the
author, co-author, or co-editor of over 30 other books or monographs
as well as author or co-author of well over 100 professional journal
articles in the health field.

JAMES HODGE, JR.
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health; Executive Director, Centers for Law and the Public's Health
at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities; and Adjunct Faculty,
Georgetown University Law Center
Mr. Hodge teaches and lectures extensively in public health
law,bioethics, and health information privacy, has authored (or
co-authored)over 75 articles in professional journals and over 50
reports and other publications on public health law, bioethics, and
human rights.

RUDOLF VAN PUYMBROECK
Independent adviser on health law and international development and
Adjunct Faculty,Georgetown University
Mr. Van Puymbroeck was formerly Lead Counsel, Public Health and
HIV/AIDS, Legal Advisory Services, World Bank Legal Vice Presidency.
He is a member of the World Bank?s Editorial Committee, former
member of the World Bank?s Research Committee (2000-2003), and
co-author (with Frederick M. Abbott) of Compulsory Licensing for
Public Health: A Guide and Model Documents for Implementation of the
Doha Declaration Paragraph 6 Decision. He is former Editor of
Comprehensive Legal and Judicial Development: Toward an Agenda for a
Just and Equitable Society in the 21st Century, The World Bank
Legal Review: Law and Justice for Development, and the Law, Justice
and Development series.

Comments by
DEBREWORK ZEWDIE
Director, Global HIV/AIDS Program, World Bank
Ms. Zewdie is the Director of the Global HIV/AIDS Program for the
World Bank. She was recruited to this position from the Africa
Region of the Bank where she managed the AIDS Campaign Team for
Africa (ACTafrica), which is responsible for the US$1 billion
Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program (MAP I and II) for Africa. Before
joining the Bank in 1994, Ms. Zewdie was Deputy Regional Director of
the Africa Region for the AIDS Control and Prevention project
(AIDSCAP) of Family Health International in Nairobi, Kenya and
worked in sixteen African countries.

For more information or to order the book, please click on the link
below:

http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=6552486

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

Film Screening "Billion Dollar Bonfire" on Thursday, August 30 from 12:00 to 1:00pm in J1-050

The InfoShop, Oil, Gas, Mining and Chemicals Department, Sustainable Development
Network,
Africa Region External Affairs Department, and Global Gas Flaring Reduction

Partnership

cordially invite you to the screening of a TVE/BBC documentary on gas flaring,
featuring Nigeria and Russia

Billion Dollar Bonfire
The flaring and venting of Natural Gas is wasting valuable resources and
contributing to climate change.

The World Bank's Global Gas Flaring Reduction partnership estimates that 150
billion cubic meters of gas are burnt off or 'flared' every year - enough to
supply the whole of the United States for three months. And the 40 bcm of gas
burned in Africa annually could generate half of the electricity currently
produced in that continent.

Gas flaring and venting also puts about 400 million tonnes of carbon dioxide
into the atmosphere every year.

A new programme in TVE's Earth Report series, which run on BBC World, goes to
Russia and Nigeria to assess the scale of the problem and to examine possible
solutions.

Billion Dollar Bonfire, TVE's Earth Report series, which ran on BBC World, was
produced with the support of The World Bank?s Global Gas Flaring Reduction
Partnership.

A brief discussion following the showing of the documentary will focus on:
How gas flaring reduction and gas utilization fit into the new energy matrix
Gas utilization potential contributions to climate change mitigation and
energy security
The World Bank's GGFR role in global gas flaring reduction
Challenges and opportunities for the period 2007-2009

Thursday, August 30, 2007
12:00 - 1:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050

Introductory Remarks
Kristalina I. Georgieva
Director
Strategy and Operations, and Acting VP
Sustainable Development Network
World Bank

Chair
Somit Varma
Director of Oil, Gas, and Mining
World Bank

Brief Discussion and Q&A
Bent Svensson
Lead Energy Economist and Manager
Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership (GGFR)
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About GGFR
In 2002 the World Bank and the Government of Norway started the Global Gas
Flaring Reduction (GGFR) initiative, which now has 12 country partners and 10
industrial partners, including the world?s largest petroleum companies. GGFR?s
main goal is to bring all major stakeholders around the table so that they can
together reduce the barriers to eliminate gas flaring to minimum levels. These
main barriers include lack of an effective regulatory framework for associated
gas utilization, lack of markets and lack of infrastructure to take the gas to
those markets.

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 on gas global gas flaring, visit: www.worldbank.org-ggfr
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Film Screening "Billion Dollar Bonfire" on Thursday, August 30 from 12:00 to 1:00pm in J1-050

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The InfoShop, Oil, Gas, Mining and Chemicals Department, Sustainable Development

Network,

Africa Region External Affairs Department, and Global Gas Flaring Reduction

Partnership

cordially invite you to the screening of a TVE/BBC documentary on gas flaring,
featuring Nigeria and Russia
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| | |
| | |
| (Embedded image moved | film screening |
| to file: | Billion Dollar Bonfire |
| pic00330.jpg) | The flaring and venting of Natural Gas is |
| | wasting valuable resources and contributing to |
| 150 billion cubic | climate change. |
| meters of gas are | |
| burnt off or 'flared' | The World Bank's Global Gas Flaring Reduction |
| every year - enough | partnership estimates that 150 billion cubic |
| to generate half of | meters of gas are burnt off or 'flared' every |
| the electricity | year - enough to supply the whole of the United |
| currently produced in | States for three months. And the 40 bcm of gas |
| Africa. | burned in Africa annually could generate half of |
| | the electricity currently produced in that |
| | continent. |
| | |
| | Gas flaring and venting also puts about 400 |
| | million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the |
| | atmosphere every year. |
| | |
| | A new programme in TVE's Earth Report series, |
| | which run on BBC World, goes to Russia and |
| | Nigeria to assess the scale of the problem and |
| | to examine possible solutions. |
| | |
| | Billion Dollar Bonfire, TVE's Earth Report |
| | series, which ran on BBC World, was produced |
| | with the support of The World Bank?s Global Gas |
| | Flaring Reduction Partnership. |
| | |
| | A brief discussion following the showing of the |
| | documentary will focus on: |
| | How gas flaring reduction and gas utilization |
| | fit into the new energy matrix |
| | Gas utilization potential contributions to |
| | climate change mitigation and energy security |
| | The World Bank's GGFR role in global gas |
| | flaring reduction |
| | Challenges and opportunities for the period |
| | 2007-2009 |
| | |
| | |
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| | |
| | |
| Thursday, August 30, | |
| 2007 | |
| 12:00 - 1:00pm | |
| World Bank J | |
| Building, Auditorium | |
| J1-050 | |
| | |
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Introductory Remarks
Kristalina I. Georgieva
Director
Strategy and Operations, and Acting VP
Sustainable Development Network
World Bank

Chair
Somit Varma
Director of Oil, Gas, and Mining
World Bank

Brief Discussion and Q&A
Bent Svensson
Lead Energy Economist and Manager
Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership (GGFR)
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About GGFR
In 2002 the World Bank and the Government of Norway started the
Global Gas Flaring Reduction (GGFR) initiative, which now has 12
country partners and 10 industrial partners, including the world?s
largest petroleum companies. GGFR?s main goal is to bring all major
stakeholders around the table so that they can together reduce the
barriers to eliminate gas flaring to minimum levels. These main
barriers include lack of an effective regulatory framework for
associated gas utilization, lack of markets and lack of
infrastructure to take the gas to those markets.

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 on gas global gas flaring, visit:

www.worldbank.org-ggfr

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

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0