Reminder: "A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World" discussed at the InfoShop on September 10 at 3:00 pm in J1-050

InfoShop & DECRG (Development Economics Research Group)

invite you to a book launch of a recent Princeton Unversity Press publication

A Farewell to Alms
A Brief Economic History of the World
By Gregory Clark

Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the
Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with
it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some
other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did
it make large parts of the world even poorer?

In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark tackles these profound questions and
suggests a new and provocative way in which culture--not exploitation,
geography, or resources--explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations
Monday, September 10, 2007
3:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoSHopevents@worldbank.org
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Moderated by
Karla Hoff
Senior Research Economist
Ms. Hoff is a Senior Research Economist in the Development Economics Group. Her
research focuses on institutions and institutional change, particularly in the
former Soviet Union and India. Her co-edited book manuscript Poverty Traps
brings together three strands of the literature on threshold effects,
institutions, and neighborhood effects. She has also written on market responses
to uncertainty and imperfect information, and on the ways that these responses
may perpetuate poverty.

Presented by Author
Gregory Clark
Mr. Clark is a professor of Economics at University of California, Davis, and
also a department Chair. His main research area is long run economic growth,
the wealth of nations, with particular focus on the economic history of England
and India. Mr. Clark teaches undergraduate and graduate world economic history,
and helps organize the Economic History Seminar.

Comments by
Vijayendra Rao
Lead Economist, World Bank
Mr. Rao, Lead Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank, has
held appointments at the Universities of Chicago, Michigan, Brown, and Williams
College. His work integrates economic and anthropological methods to inform
poverty-reduction policies in poor countries. He has published several papers
in leading journals on a spectrum of topics under the broad themes of
decentralized local development, culture and development, gender equity, and
mixed methods.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: "A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World" discussed at the InfoShop on September 10 at 3:00 pm in J1-050

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DECRG (Development Economics Research Group)

invite you to a book launch of a recent Princeton Unversity Press
publication
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| | Why are some parts of the world so rich and |
| | others so poor? Why did the Industrial |
| | Revolution--and the unprecedented economic |
| | growth that came with it--occur in |
| | eighteenth-century England, and not at some |
| | other time, or in some other place? Why |
| | didn't industrialization make the whole |
| | world rich--and why did it make large parts |
| | of the world even poorer? |
| | |
| | In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark |
| | tackles these profound questions and |
| | suggests a new and provocative way in which |
| | culture--not exploitation, geography, or |
| | resources--explains the wealth, and the |
| | poverty, of nations. |
| | |
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Monday, September 10, 2007
3:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Moderated by
Karla Hoff
Senior Research Economist
Ms. Hoff is a Senior Research Economist in the Development Economics
Group. Her research focuses on institutions and institutional
change, particularly in the former Soviet Union and India. Her
co-edited book manuscript Poverty Traps brings together three
strands of the literature on threshold effects, institutions, and
neighborhood effects. She has also written on market responses to
uncertainty and imperfect information, and on the ways that these
responses may perpetuate poverty.

Presented by Author
Gregory Clark
Mr. Clark is a professor of Economics at University of California,
Davis, and also a department Chair. His main research area is long
run economic growth, the wealth of nations, with particular focus on
the economic history of England and India. Mr. Clark teaches
undergraduate and graduate world economic history, and helps
organize the Economic History Seminar.

Comments by
Vijayendra Rao
Lead Economist, World Bank
Mr. Rao, Lead Economist in the Development Research Group of the
World Bank, has held appointments at the Universities of Chicago,
Michigan, Brown, and Williams College. His work integrates economic
and anthropological methods to inform poverty-reduction policies in
poor countries. He has published several papers in leading journals
on a spectrum of topics under the broad themes of decentralized
local development, culture and development, gender equity, and
mixed methods.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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:"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 & World Bank Caribbean Country Management Unit and the Knowledge and
Learning Team of the Latin American and 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.
A light lunch will be served
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org

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

Reminder:"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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&
World Bank Caribbean Country Management Unit and the Knowledge and
Learning Team of the Latin American and 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 |
| pic13388.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. |
| | |
| | |
|-------------------+----------------------------------------------|

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

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Enhancing China ? s Competitiveness Through Lifelong Learning" on September 17 at 12:30pm in J1-050

InfoShop and the World Bank Institute cordially invite you to a book launch and
panel discussion featuring

Enhancing China?s Competitiveness Through Lifelong Learning

This book discusses the issues and steps involved in building a lifelong
learning system in China, including: a coherent policy framework, a sound
incentive and institutional framework, a sound regulatory environment, a
coordinated governance process, a timely and reliable management information
system, a dynamic link with the evolving global system, and the optimal use of
limited resources.

Monday, September 17, 2007
12:30 - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1-050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)
Coffee and cookies will be served

*RSVP REQUIRED* Please send an email to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

WELCOMING REMARKS
Rakesh Nangia
Acting Vice President, World Bank Institute

CHAIR
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank

AUTHORS AND PRESENTERS
Carl Dahlman
Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service

Douglas Zhihua Zeng
World Bank Institute

Shuilin Wang
DEC, World Bank

COMMENTARY
Emmanuel Jimenez
EASHD, World Bank

Ruth Kagia
HDNED, 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

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| | including: a coherent policy framework, a sound |
| | incentive and institutional framework, a sound |
| | regulatory environment, a coordinated governance |
| | process, a timely and reliable management |
| | information system, a dynamic link with the |
| | evolving global system, and the optimal use of |
| | limited resources. |
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Monday, September 17, 2007
12:30 - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building, 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
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank

AUTHORS AND PRESENTERS
Carl Dahlman
Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service

Douglas Zhihua Zeng
World Bank Institute

Shuilin Wang
DEC, World Bank

COMMENTARY
Emmanuel Jimenez
EASHD, World Bank

Ruth Kagia
HDNED, 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

CHANGE OF VENUE "The Dinosaur Among Us: The World Bank and its Path to Extinction" on September 6 at 12:00pm in H Building Auditorium

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invite you to a book launch of a recent publication
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| | Extinction |
| | By Jeffrey C. Hooke |
| | |
| | As poverty's two stepchildren - |
| | terrorism and failed states - pose |
| | major problems, bettering Third World |
| | economies is vitally important to the |
| | West. The author argues that a |
| | principal tool in this effort, the |
| | World Bank, is squandering |
| | opportunities and refusing to adapt |
| | to changing conditions. |
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Thursday, September 6, 2007
12:00pm
World Bank H Building, Eugene R. Black Auditorium
600 19th Street, NW

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Introduced by
Cinnamon Dornsife
Associate Director, International Development Program at SAIS of Johns Hopkins
University
Ms. Dornsife is a senior executive, negotiator and advocate with
nearly thirty years experience in international banking, economic
development and foreign policy. Currently, she is serving on the
faculty and as Associate Director, International Development
Program, at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. Additionally, she sits on
the Bretton Woods Committee and the Boards of Directors for the
Development Executive Group, the Japan America Institute for
Management Sciences, First Voice International and the Board
of Advisors for the US-Indonesia Society. Ms. Dornsife consults
in the fields of development policy, aid effectiveness, strategic
philanthropy, international financial policy and sustainable
economic development.

Presented by Author
Jeffrey Hooke
Mr. Hooke spent six years at the World Bank. Now a consultant, he
was formerly a director of Emerging Markets Partnership, an
investment officer of the Bank, and an investment banker with Lehman
Brothers. The author of three previous books on finance, he has
taught at several universities and has written studies for public
policy groups such as the Reason Foundation.

Comments by
Vinay Bhargava
Former World Bank Director
Mr. Bhargava is an author, professor, and consultant in the areas of
governance, global issues and international financial institutions.
Currently, he is a consultant to the World Bank and serves as
Adviser to the Partnership for Transparency Fund, and as a member of
the Professional Advisory Council for the Gerald H. Read Center for
International and Intercultural Education at Kent State University,
USA. In 2007, Mr. Bhargava was Senior Advisor for Public Sector
Governance and External Affairs at the World Bank. From 2002 to
2006, he was Director of International Affairs and Operations at the
World Bank.From 1997-2001 he was the World Bank Country Director for
the Philippines. He has taught at the Georgetown, American, Horshima
and Kobe Universities. Mr. Bhargava is the lead author of Combating
Corruption in the Philippines, (published in 2000), and Challenging
Corruption in Asia. He was editor of Global Issues for Global
Citizens, published by the World Bank in September 2006. He has
contributed a chapter to the book The Many Faces of Corruption,
published by the World Bank in 2007.

For more Information or to order the book, please visit:

http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=6966537

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes: Struggle for Justice in the Amazon" discussed at the InfoShop on September 13 at 3:30pm in J1-050

InfoShop invite you to the inspiring story of courageous labor and environmental
activist Chico Mendes, who led Brazil?s rubber tappers until his assassination
in 1988.

Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes
Struggle for Justice in the Amazon
By Gomercindo Rodrigues
Edited and translated by Linda Rabben

A close associate of Chico Mendes, Gomercindo Rodrigues witnessed the struggle
between Brazil?s rubber tappers and local ranchers?a struggle that led to the
murder of Mendes. Rodrigues?s memoir of his years with Mendes has never before
been translated into English from the Portuguese. Now, Walking the Forest with
Chico Mendes makes this important work available to new audiences, capturing the
events and trends that shaped the lives of both men and the fragile system of
public security and justice within which they lived and worked.
In a rare primary account of the celebrated labor organizer, Rodrigues
chronicles Mendes?s innovative proposals as the Amazon faced wholesale
deforestation. As a labor unionist and an environmentalist, Mendes believed that
rain forests could be preserved without ruining the lives of workers, and that
destroying forests to make way for cattle pastures threatened humanity in the
long run. Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes also brings to light the
unexplained and uninvestigated events surrounding Mendes?s murder.

Thursday, September 13, 2007
3:30 p.m.
World Bank J Building, J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

Presented by author
Gormecindo Rodrigues
Gomercindo Rodrigues served as an adviser (assessor) to Chico Mendes and the
Rural Workers' Union in Xapuri, Acre, a small town near the Bolivian-Brazilian
frontier on the far western edge of the Brazilian Amazon. Most of the rural
workers in Xapuri are rubber tappers?extractivists and sellers of natural latex
from the rubber trees indigenous to the region. During the decade following
Mendes's death, Rodrigues became a lawyer, defending the workers in the rubber
tappers' movement that Chico Mendes had led until his untimely death.

Comments by
John Butler
Principal Social Development Specialist, IFC
John Butler is Principal Social Development Specialist in the Environment and
Social Development Department of the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
He has over 20 years of experience working on issues related to community social
development and environment. He carried out his Ph.D. field work in
Anthropology in the area of Sao Felix do Xingu and Tucuma in the Brazilian
Amazon, and worked for 10 years with WWF-US, including 6 years in the
Brazil-Amazon program providing support to a range of conservation efforts from
extractive reserves in Amapa State to the development of the management plan for
Jau Narional Park, on the Rio Negro, Amazonas State.

Linda Rabben
Translator
The translator and editor of Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes, Linda Rabben
made many trips to Brazil to do field research on grassroots social movements
after training as an anthropologist at Cornell University. For more than a
decade she was a human rights activist for Amnesty International and has worked
as an editor, writer and researcher for nongovernmental organizations. Her
books include Brazil?s Indians and the Onslaught of Civilization: The Yanomami
and the Kayapó and Fierce Legion of Friends: A History of Human Rights Campaigns
and Campaigners.

Moderated by
John Garrison
Senior Civil Society Specialist, World Bank
John Garrison joined the World Bank in 1996 as a Civil Society Specialist. He
spent the first five years working in the Bank?s office in Brasilia, Brazil
where he had contact with Amazonian civil society organizations. In 2002 he
joined the Bank?s Civil Society Team (CST) which coordinates the Bank?s civil
society engagement work at the global level. Current activities include working
to formulate Bank-wide strategy, providing advice to senior management, reaching
out to international civil society networks, and disseminating information on
the 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

"Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes: Struggle for Justice in the Amazon" discussed at the InfoShop on September 13 at 3:30pm in J1-050

(Embedded image moved to file: pic29790.jpg)

We invite you to the inspiring story of courageous labor and
environmental activist Chico Mendes, who led Brazil?s rubber tappers
until his assassination in 1988.
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| | |
| | |
| | Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes |
| (Embedded image | Struggle for Justice in the Amazon |
| moved to file: | By Gomercindo Rodrigues |
| pic14924.jpg) | Edited and translated by Linda Rabben |
| | |
| | A close associate of Chico Mendes, |
| | Gomercindo Rodrigues witnessed the struggle |
| | between Brazil?s rubber tappers and local |
| | ranchers?a struggle that led to the murder |
| | of Mendes. Rodrigues?s memoir of his years |
| | with Mendes has never before been translated |
| | into English from the Portuguese. Now, |
| | Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes makes |
| | this important work available to new |
| | audiences, capturing the events and trends |
| | that shaped the lives of both men and the |
| | fragile system of public security and |
| | justice within which they lived and worked. |
| | In a rare primary account of the celebrated |
| | labor organizer, Rodrigues chronicles |
| | Mendes?s innovative proposals as the Amazon |
| | faced wholesale deforestation. As a labor |
| | unionist and an environmentalist, Mendes |
| | believed that rain forests could be |
| | preserved without ruining the lives of |
| | workers, and that destroying forests to make |
| | way for cattle pastures threatened humanity |
| | in the long run. Walking the Forest with |
| | Chico Mendes also brings to light the |
| | unexplained and uninvestigated events |
| | surrounding Mendes?s murder. |
| | |
|-------------------+----------------------------------------------|

Thursday, September 13, 2007
3:30 p.m.
World Bank J Building, J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

Presented by author
Gormecindo Rodrigues
Gomercindo Rodrigues served as an adviser (assessor) to Chico
Mendes and the Rural Workers' Union in Xapuri, Acre, a small town
near the Bolivian-Brazilian frontier on the far western edge of the
Brazilian Amazon. Most of the rural workers in Xapuri are rubber
tappers?extractivists and sellers of natural latex from the rubber
trees indigenous to the region. During the decade following Mendes's
death, Rodrigues became a lawyer, defending the workers in the
rubber tappers' movement that Chico Mendes had led until his
untimely death.

Comments by
John Butler
Principal Social Development Specialist, IFC
John Butler is Principal Social Development Specialist in the
Environment and Social Development Department of the International
Finance Corporation (IFC). He has over 20 years of experience
working on issues related to community social development and
environment. He carried out his Ph.D. field work in Anthropology in
the area of Sao Felix do Xingu and Tucuma in the Brazilian Amazon,
and worked for 10 years with WWF-US, including 6 years in the
Brazil-Amazon program providing support to a range of conservation
efforts from extractive reserves in Amapa State to the development
of the management plan for Jau Narional Park, on the Rio Negro,
Amazonas State.

Linda Rabben
Translator
The translator and editor of Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes,
Linda Rabben made many trips to Brazil to do field research on
grassroots social movements after training as an anthropologist at
Cornell University. For more than a decade she was a human rights
activist for Amnesty International and has worked as an editor,
writer and researcher for nongovernmental organizations. Her books
include Brazil?s Indians and the Onslaught of Civilization: The
Yanomami and the Kayapó and Fierce Legion of Friends: A History of
Human Rights Campaigns and Campaigners.

Moderated by
John Garrison
Senior Civil Society Specialist, World Bank
John Garrison joined the World Bank in 1996 as a Civil Society
Specialist. He spent the first five years working in the Bank?s
office in Brasilia, Brazil where he had contact with Amazonian civil
society organizations. In 2002 he joined the Bank?s Civil Society
Team (CST) which coordinates the Bank?s civil society engagement
work at the global level. Current activities include working to
formulate Bank-wide strategy, providing advice to senior management,
reaching out to international civil society networks, and
disseminating information on the 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

Seminar and Book Launch on Globalization's Impact on Labor and Capital discussed at the InfoShop on September 13 at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop & PRMED (Economic Policy and Debt Department)

Invite you to a seminar on
Globalization's Impact on Labor and Capital

Why should the development community concern itself with what happens to workers
in rich countries as a result of globalization? The answer is that if workers in
these countries are perceived to be hurt by globalization this could catalyze a
protectionist backlash. This could in turn slow down the process of
globalization and impede developing country access to developed country markets
and immigration with adverse welfare and growth consequences in developing
countries. The April 2007 World Economic Outlook of the IMF devotes a chapter
to the impact of globalization on workers in rich countries, the results of
which will be presented by Florence Jaumotte of the IMF's Research Department.
Professor Robert Reich's new book, "Supercapitalism", discusses the emerging
conflict between capitalism (enlarging the economic pie) and democracy (caring
for all the citizens) in the US. And Professor Chamley will revisit his seminal
contribution to the taxation of capital, which appears to be the clear winner in
our globalized world. Would the result that the optimal rate of taxation on
capital is zero still stand?

Featuring also a recent publication
Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
by Robert B. Reich
From one of our most valued voices on politics, business, and the economy,
best-selling author of Locked in the Cabinet and The Work of Nations - a
breakthrough book on the clash between capitalism and democracy.

Our economy has become more efficient than ever, with turbocharged, Web-based
global capitalism morphing into supercapitalism. But as Robert B. Reich makes
clear in this eye-opening book, while supercapitalism is working well to enlarge
the economic pie, democracy - charged with caring for all its citizens - is
becoming less and less effective under its influence. l;A highly important book
- timely, impassioned, and persuasive.

Thursday September 13, 2007 at 12:00 pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served at 11:30 am
For non bank staff, please rsvp to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org

Presented by
Florence Jaumotte
Senior Economist, Research Department, International Monetary Fund
Ms. Jaumotte, after obtaining her PhD in Economics from Harvard University in
2000, joined the Economist Program of the IMF for two years. She subsequently
worked at the OECD in Paris, doing cross-country analyses in the areas of female
labor market participation and determinants of innovation. She rejoined the Fund
in 2005 as part of the Research Department team which produces the World
Economic Outlook and worked, among other things, on chapters looking at the
impact of globalization on inflation, labor markets, and more recently
inequality.

Robert B. Reich
Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of
California, Berkeley
Mr. Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy
at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national
administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill
Clinton. In 2003, Reich was awarded the prestigious Vaclav Havel Foundation
Prize for his pioneering work in economic and social thought. As Secretary of
Labor, Mr. Reich implemented the Family and Medical Leave Act, led a national
fight against sweatshops in the U.S. and illegal child labor around the world,
headed the administration?s successful effort to raise the minimum wage, secured
worker?s pensions, and launched job-training programs, one-stop career centers,
and school-to-work initiatives. In 2003, Mr. Reich was awarded the prestigious
Vaclav Havel Foundation Prize for his pioneering work in economic and social
thought.

Christophe Chamley
Professor, Boston University and Directeur d'Etude EHESS, Paris School of
Economics
Mr. Chamley has been Professor of Economics at Boston University since 1988. He
is also Directeur d?Etude EHESS, Paris (Paris School of Economics). He received
his PhD in economics from Harvard University and taught at Yale University from
1978 to 1986. From 1986-88, he worked at the World Bank. Mr. Chamley is known
for his seminal papers on the optimal taxation of capital, which have been
published in the top economic journals.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.

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

"A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World" discussed at the InfoShop on September 10 at 3:00 pm in J1-050

InfoShop & DECRG (Development Economics Research Group)

invite you to a book launch of a recent Princeton Unversity Press publication

A Farewell to Alms
A Brief Economic History of the World
By Gregory Clark

Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the
Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with
it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some
other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did
it make large parts of the world even poorer?

In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark tackles these profound questions and
suggests a new and provocative way in which culture--not exploitation,
geography, or resources--explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations
Monday, September 10, 2007
3:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoSHopevents@worldbank.org
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Moderated by
Karla Hoff
Senior Research Economist
Ms. Hoff is a Senior Research Economist in the Development Economics Group. Her
research focuses on institutions and institutional change, particularly in the
former Soviet Union and India. Her co-edited book manuscript Poverty Traps
brings together three strands of the literature on threshold effects,
institutions, and neighborhood effects. She has also written on market responses
to uncertainty and imperfect information, and on the ways that these responses
may perpetuate poverty.

Presented by Author
Gregory Clark
Mr. Clark is a professor of Economics at University of California, Davis, and
also a department Chair. His main research area is long run economic growth,
the wealth of nations, with particular focus on the economic history of England
and India. Mr. Clark teaches undergraduate and graduate world economic history,
and helps organize the Economic History Seminar.

Comments by
Vijayendra Rao
Lead Economist, World Bank
Mr. Rao, Lead Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank, has
held appointments at the Universities of Chicago, Michigan, Brown, and Williams
College. His work integrates economic and anthropological methods to inform
poverty-reduction policies in poor countries. He has published several papers
in leading journals on a spectrum of topics under the broad themes of
decentralized local development, culture and development, gender equity, and
mixed methods.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.

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

"A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World" discussed at the InfoShop on September 10 at 3:00 pm in J1-050

(Embedded image moved to file: pic21083.gif)
&
DECRG (Development Economics Research Group)

invite you to a book launch of a recent Princeton Unversity Press
publication
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| | |
| | |
| (Embedded | A Farewell to Alms |
| image moved | A Brief Economic History of the World |
| to file: | By Gregory Clark |
| pic23639.jpg) | |
| | Why are some parts of the world so rich and |
| | others so poor? Why did the Industrial |
| | Revolution--and the unprecedented economic |
| | growth that came with it--occur in |
| | eighteenth-century England, and not at some |
| | other time, or in some other place? Why |
| | didn't industrialization make the whole |
| | world rich--and why did it make large parts |
| | of the world even poorer? |
| | |
| | In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark |
| | tackles these profound questions and |
| | suggests a new and provocative way in which |
| | culture--not exploitation, geography, or |
| | resources--explains the wealth, and the |
| | poverty, of nations. |
| | |
| | |
|-----------------+------------------------------------------------|

Monday, September 10, 2007
3:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Moderated by
Karla Hoff
Senior Research Economist
Ms. Hoff is a Senior Research Economist in the Development Economics
Group. Her research focuses on institutions and institutional
change, particularly in the former Soviet Union and India. Her
co-edited book manuscript Poverty Traps brings together three
strands of the literature on threshold effects, institutions, and
neighborhood effects. She has also written on market responses to
uncertainty and imperfect information, and on the ways that these
responses may perpetuate poverty.

Presented by Author
Gregory Clark
Mr. Clark is a professor of Economics at University of California,
Davis, and also a department Chair. His main research area is long
run economic growth, the wealth of nations, with particular focus on
the economic history of England and India. Mr. Clark teaches
undergraduate and graduate world economic history, and helps
organize the Economic History Seminar.

Comments by
Vijayendra Rao
Lead Economist, World Bank
Mr. Rao, Lead Economist in the Development Research Group of the
World Bank, has held appointments at the Universities of Chicago,
Michigan, Brown, and Williams College. His work integrates economic
and anthropological methods to inform poverty-reduction policies in
poor countries. He has published several papers in leading journals
on a spectrum of topics under the broad themes of decentralized
local development, culture and development, gender equity, and
mixed methods.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

Seminar and Book Launch on Globalization's Impact on Labor and Capital discussed at the InfoShop on September 13 at 12:00pm in J1-050

(Embedded image moved to file: pic14295.jpg)

&
PRMED (Economic Policy and Debt Department)

Invite you to a seminar on
|-------------------+----------------------------------------------|
| | |
| Globalization's | |
| Impact on Labor | |
| and Capital | |
| | |
| Why should the | |
| development | |
| community concern | |
| itself with what | |
| happens to | |
| workers in rich | |
| countries as a | |
| result of | |
| globalization? | |
| The answer is | |
| that if workers | |
| in these | |
| countries are | |
| perceived to be | |
| hurt by | |
| globalization | |
| this could | |
| catalyze a | |
| protectionist | |
| backlash. This | |
| could in turn | |
| slow down the | |
| process of | |
| globalization and | |
| impede developing | |
| country access to | |
| developed country | |
| markets and | |
| immigration with | |
| adverse welfare | |
| and growth | |
| consequences in | |
| developing | |
| countries. The | |
| April 2007 World | |
| Economic Outlook | |
| of the IMF | |
| devotes a chapter | |
| to the impact of | |
| globalization on | |
| workers in rich | |
| countries, the | |
| results of which | |
| will be presented | |
| by Florence | |
| Jaumotte of the | |
| IMF's Research | |
| Department. | |
| Professor Robert | |
| Reich's new book, | |
| "Supercapitalism" | |
| , discusses the | |
| emerging conflict | |
| between | |
| capitalism | |
| (enlarging the | |
| economic pie) and | |
| democracy (caring | |
| for all the | |
| citizens) in the | |
| US. And | |
| Professor Chamley | |
| will revisit his | |
| seminal | |
| contribution to | |
| the taxation of | |
| capital, which | |
| appears to be the | |
| clear winner in | |
| our globalized | |
| world. Would the | |
| result that the | |
| optimal rate of | |
| taxation on | |
| capital is zero | |
| still stand? | |
| | |
|-------------------+----------------------------------------------|

Featuring also a recent publication
|-------------------+----------------------------------------------|
| | |
| | Supercapitalism: The Transformation of |
| (Embedded image | Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life |
| moved to file: | by Robert B. Reich |
| pic32168.jpg) | From one of our most valued voices on |
| | politics, business, and the economy, |
| | best-selling author of Locked in the Cabinet |
| | and The Work of Nations - a breakthrough |
| | book on the clash between capitalism and |
| | democracy. |
| | |
| | Our economy has become more efficient than |
| | ever, with turbocharged, Web-based global |
| | capitalism morphing into supercapitalism. |
| | But as Robert B. Reich makes clear in this |
| | eye-opening book, while supercapitalism is |
| | working well to enlarge the economic pie, |
| | democracy - charged with caring for all its |
| | citizens - is becoming less and less |
| | effective under its influence. l;A highly |
| | important book - timely, impassioned, and |
| | persuasive. |
| | |
|-------------------+----------------------------------------------|

Thursday September 13, 2007 at 12:00 pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served at 11:30 am

Presented by
Florence Jaumotte
Senior Economist, Research Department, International Monetary Fund
Ms. Jaumotte, after obtaining her PhD in Economics from Harvard
University in 2000, joined the Economist Program of the IMF for two
years. She subsequently worked at the OECD in Paris, doing
cross-country analyses in the areas of female labor market
participation and determinants of innovation. She rejoined the Fund
in 2005 as part of the Research Department team which produces the
World Economic Outlook and worked, among other things, on chapters
looking at the impact of globalization on inflation, labor markets,
and more recently inequality.

Robert B. Reich
Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy,
University of California, Berkeley
Mr. Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of
Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has
served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary
of labor under President Bill Clinton. In 2003, Reich was awarded
the prestigious Vaclav Havel Foundation Prize for his pioneering
work in economic and social thought. As Secretary of Labor, Mr.
Reich implemented the Family and Medical Leave Act, led a national
fight against sweatshops in the U.S. and illegal child labor around
the world, headed the administration?s successful effort to raise
the minimum wage, secured worker?s pensions, and launched
job-training programs, one-stop career centers, and school-to-work
initiatives. In 2003, Mr. Reich was awarded the prestigious Vaclav
Havel Foundation Prize for his pioneering work in economic and
social thought.

Christophe Chamley
Professor, Boston University and Directeur d'Etude EHESS, Paris
School of Economics
Mr. Chamley has been Professor of Economics at Boston University
since 1988. He is also Directeur d?Etude EHESS, Paris (Paris School
of Economics). He received his PhD in economics from Harvard
University and taught at Yale University from 1978 to 1986. From
1986-88, he worked at the World Bank. Mr. Chamley is known for his
seminal papers on the optimal taxation of capital, which have been
published in the top economic journals.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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