Invitation: Gandhi Peace Prize Recipient, Dr. Ariyaratne in the InfoShop on October 16 at 12:00 pm, J1-050

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
12:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

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OPENING REMARKS
Peter Harrold
Director, Operations Services, World Bank
Peter Harrold is currently Director of Operations Services in OPCS,
where he oversees the policy framework for the Bank's investment
lending. Immediately prior to this, he was Country Director for Sri
Lanka. In this capacity, especially after the Tsunami, he worked
very closely and personally with Dr. Ari Ariyaratne and his son
Vinya, and has a strong admiration for the work of the Sarvodaya
movement in Sri Lanka, and for Ari's deep commitment to peace.
Peter was earlier Country Director for Ghana and Sierra Leone, where
he also saw the power of grass-roots movements.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
A. T. Ariyaratne
Founder Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement of Sri Lanka
Now 75 years old, Ariyaratne has inspired millions of people around
the world with his vision of human centerd development. He brings
deep spiritual insight into practical action, which has transformed
millions of lives. Ariyaratne has gained international recognition
including the Gandhi Peace Prize, the Hubert H. Humphrey Award and
Alan Shawn Feistein World Hunger Award, Niwano Peace Prize, the King
Baudouin Award for International Development, and the Ramon
Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership. He has been nominated for
the Nobel Prize, Hilton Humanitarian Award, Seoul Peace Prize, and
Northcote Parkinson Civil Courage Award.

For a complete bio, please see attached file:
(See attached file: Dr.Ariyaratne_shortbio.pdf)
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About Sarvodaya
Sarvodaya is the largest non-profit, grassroots organization in Sri
Lanka, working in over 15,000 villages. Based on Gandhian and
Buddhist values, the movement strives to create self-sustainable
communities by reducing poverty, promoting peace, teaching self-help
and legal empowerment, and enterprise development. Sarvodaya means
"awakening of all" and Shramadana means sharing. The essence of the
movement is that "Everybody Wakes Up through Sharing Labor, Energy,
Resources, and Love." Since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami,
Sarvodaya villages have been rebuilding homes and schools, providing
emotional support and recovery, rehabilitating businesses,
increasing survivors' input into relief efforts, and creating
environmentally-friendly rural and fishing communities. Today,
Sarvodaya-inspired initiatives are found around the world including
in the Nepal, United States, The United Kingdom, and Germany.

The 2005 United Nations-HABITAT recognized the movement for its
tsunami relief work and outstanding contributions to improving the
quality of life after the disaster. 2008 marks the 50th anniversary
of the founding of the movement, which is a model for "bottom-up"
development around the world.

For more information about the organization, please go to:

www.sarvodaya.org

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 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: "Trade Imbalance: The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights Concerns in Trade Policymaking" discussed at the InfoShop on October 9 at 12:00 pm in JB1-080

InfoShop, DECRG (Development Economics Research Group), International Trade
Department, World Bank
International Labour Organization, Washington Office
The Financial Times

invite you to a book launch of a recent Cambridge University Press publication
TRADE IMBALANCE
The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights Concerns in Trade Policymaking
by Susan Ariel Aaronson, Jamie M. Zimmerman

Trade is controversial; around the world many people believe that trade
agreements, even trade per se, undermines particular human rights such as labor
rights or access to affordable medicine (the right to health). But trade and
trade agreements can also advance human rights, directly or indirectly. In fact,
some countries use trade policies to advance specific human rights such as labor
rights or property rights. Although scholars, policy makers, and activists have
long debated this relationship, in truth we know very little about it.

This book enters this murky territory with three goals. First, it uses stories
about frogs, chocolate, culture, tires and other topics to provide readers with
new insights into the relationship between trade and human rights. Second, it
includes the first study of how South Africa, Brazil, the United States, and the
European Union coordinate trade and human rights objectives and resolve
conflicts. It also looks at how human rights issues are seeping into the WTO.
Finally, it provides suggestions to policy makers for making their trade and
human rights policies more coherent.

For more information about the book, please go to: www.tradeimbalance.net

Tuesday, October 9, 2007
12:00pm
World Bank J Building, JB1- 080
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

Moderated by
Bernard Hoekman
Research Manager, Development Research Group, The World Bank
Mr. Hoekman is the manager of the international trade team of the Development
Research Group of the World Bank. He has worked extensively on the Middle East
and North Africa and economies in transition. Between 1988 and 1993 he was on
the staff of the GATT Secretariat in Geneva. He is a Research Fellow of the
London-based Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Presented by the Authors
Susan Ariel Aaronson
Research Associate Professor, George Washington University
Susan Ariel Aaronson is Research Associate Professor at the George Washington
University, teaching in the Graduate School of Business and Elliott School
International Affairs. She also works as a consultant for various organizations
including the ILO and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
Aaronson is the author of 6 books and numerous articles on trade, investment,
development, human rights, and global corporate social responsibility issues
and has received over 30 grants for her research from foundations such as the
Ford, UN, Rockefeller, and Levi-Strauss Foundations as well as corporations
such as Pfizer, Intel, and Starbucks. A frequent speaker on globalization
issues, she was a regular commentator on "All Things Considered," and
"Marketplace,? and has appeared on the BBC, CNN, and other media outlets.
Aaronson is a pro bono consultant to John Ruggie, the UN Special Representative
on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and she serves on
the advisory board of business-humanrights.org.

Jamie M. Zimmerman
Associate Director of the Global Assets Project, New America Foundation
Ms. Zimmerman is conceptualizing, building and managing the Global Assets
project, a joint venture of the Asset Building Program at the New America
Foundation and the Center for Social Development at Washington University in
St. Louis. The program aims to advance savings and asset-building policies and
projects in the developing and developed world. Previously, Ms. Zimmerman was
the Associate Director of Globalization Studies at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill?s Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, where she
managed research and outreach efforts for projects aimed at building awareness
of the relationship between international trade, human rights, and corporate
social responsibility. She has also worked as an international trade consultant
in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and with nonprofit micro-enterprise development groups in
Urubamba, Peru.
And Special Guest
John Ruggie
United Nations Special Representative on Business & Human Rights
Mr. Ruggie is the Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of International
Affairs. Prior to joining the Kennedy School he was Assistant Secretary-General
of the United Nations, serving as chief adviser for strategic planning to
Secretary-General Kofi Annan. His responsibilities included the U.N.'s Global
Compact, intended to advance human rights, labor standards, and environmental
principles in global corporate practices. Mr. Ruggie was Dean of the School of
International and Public Affairs at Columbia University from 1991-96. He also
has taught at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, and has held visiting appointments
at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Geneva), The Royal Institute
of International Affairs (London), Beijing University, and the European
University Institute (Florence).

Comments by:
Armand Pereira
Director, International Labor Organization Washington Office
Mr. Pereira is Director of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in
Washington since May 2005. Before that, he was Director of the ILO Office in
Brasilia, between Jan 1998 and May 2005. He served the ILO at Headquarters in
Geneva from Jan 1982 to Dec 1997 as Senior Economist in the Employment and
Development Department (1982-1992), and as Industry Specialist in the Sectoral
Activities Department (1993-1997).

For more information or to order the book, please visit:
http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

For information about the book go to: www.tradeimbalance.net

About ILO
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is devoted to advancing
opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work in
conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. Its main aims are to
promote rights at work, encourage decent employment opportunities, enhance
social protection and strengthen dialogue in handling work-related issues. In
promoting social justice and internationally recognized human and labour
rights, the organization continues to pursue its founding mission that labour
peace is essential to prosperity. Today the ILO helps advance the creation of
decent jobs and the kinds of economic and working conditions that give working
people and business people a stake
in lasting peace, prosperity and progress.

For more information, visit: www.ilo.org

Reminder: "Trade Imbalance: The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights Concerns in Trade Policymaking" discussed at the InfoShop on October 9 at 12:00 pm in JB1-080

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DECRG (Development Economics Research Group), International Trade Department,
World Bank
International Labour Organization, Washington Office
The Financial Times

invite you to a book launch of a recent Cambridge University Press publication
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| TRADE IMBALANCE | |
| The Struggle to | |
| Weigh Human | |
| Rights Concerns | |
| in Trade | |
| Policymaking | |
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| by Susan Ariel | |
| Aaronson, Jamie | |
| M. Zimmerman | |
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| moved to file: | many people believe that trade agreements, |
| pic25981.jpg) | even trade per se, undermines particular |
| | human rights such as labor rights or |
| | access to affordable medicine (the right |
| | to health). But trade and trade |
| | agreements can also advance human rights, |
| | directly or indirectly. In fact, some |
| | countries use trade policies to advance |
| | specific human rights such as labor rights |
| | or property rights. Although scholars, |
| | policy makers, and activists have long |
| | debated this relationship, in truth we |
| | know very little about it. |
| | |
| | This book enters this murky territory with |
| | three goals. First, it uses stories about |
| | frogs, chocolate, culture, tires and other |
| | topics to provide readers with new |
| | insights into the relationship between |
| | trade and human rights. Second, it |
| | includes the first study of how South |
| | Africa, Brazil, the United States, and the |
| | European Union coordinate trade and human |
| | rights objectives and resolve conflicts. |
| | It also looks at how human rights issues |
| | are seeping into the WTO. Finally, it |
| | provides suggestions to policy makers for |
| | making their trade and human rights |
| | policies more coherent. |
| | |
| | For more information about the book, |
| | please go to: www.tradeimbalance.net

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Tuesday, October 9, 2007
12:00pm
World Bank J Building, JB1- 080
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

Moderated by
Bernard Hoekman
Research Manager, Development Research Group, The World Bank
Mr. Hoekman is the manager of the international trade team of the
Development Research Group of the World Bank. He has worked
extensively on the Middle East and North Africa and economies in
transition. Between 1988 and 1993 he was on the staff of the GATT
Secretariat in Geneva. He is a Research Fellow of the London-based
Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Presented by the Authors
Susan Ariel Aaronson
Research Associate Professor, George Washington University
Susan Ariel Aaronson is Research Associate Professor at the George
Washington University, teaching in the Graduate School of Business
and Elliott School International Affairs. She also works as a
consultant for various organizations including the ILO and the
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. Aaronson is the
author of 6 books and numerous articles on trade, investment,
development, human rights, and global corporate social
responsibility issues and has received over 30 grants for her
research from foundations such as the Ford, UN, Rockefeller, and
Levi-Strauss Foundations as well as corporations such as Pfizer,
Intel, and Starbucks. A frequent speaker on globalization issues,
she was a regular commentator on "All Things Considered," and
"Marketplace,? and has appeared on the BBC, CNN, and other media
outlets. Aaronson is a pro bono consultant to John Ruggie, the UN
Special Representative on the issue of human rights and
transnational corporations and she serves on the advisory board of
business-humanrights.org.

Jamie M. Zimmerman
Associate Director of the Global Assets Project, New America
Foundation
Ms. Zimmerman is conceptualizing, building and managing the Global
Assets project, a joint venture of the Asset Building Program at the
New America Foundation and the Center for Social Development at
Washington University in St. Louis. The program aims to advance
savings and asset-building policies and projects in the developing
and developed world. Previously, Ms. Zimmerman was the Associate
Director of Globalization Studies at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill?s Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise,
where she managed research and outreach efforts for projects aimed
at building awareness of the relationship between international
trade, human rights, and corporate social responsibility. She has
also worked as an international trade consultant in Sao Paulo,
Brazil, and with nonprofit micro-enterprise development groups in
Urubamba, Peru.
And Special Guest
John Ruggie
United Nations Special Representative on Business & Human Rights
Mr. Ruggie is the Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of
International Affairs. Prior to joining the Kennedy School he was
Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving as chief
adviser for strategic planning to Secretary-General Kofi Annan. His
responsibilities included the U.N.'s Global Compact, intended to
advance human rights, labor standards, and environmental principles
in global corporate practices. Mr. Ruggie was Dean of the School of
International and Public Affairs at Columbia University from
1991-96. He also has taught at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, and has
held visiting appointments at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (Geneva), The Royal Institute of International
Affairs (London), Beijing University, and the European University
Institute (Florence).

Comments by:
Armand Pereira
Director, International Labor Organization Washington Office
Mr. Pereira is Director of the International Labor Organization
(ILO) in Washington since May 2005. Before that, he was Director of
the ILO Office in Brasilia, between Jan 1998 and May 2005. He
served the ILO at Headquarters in Geneva from Jan 1982 to Dec 1997
as Senior Economist in the Employment and Development Department
(1982-1992), and as Industry Specialist in the Sectoral Activities
Department (1993-1997).

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

http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

For information about the book go to: www.tradeimbalance.net

About ILO
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is devoted to advancing
opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work
in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. Its
main aims are to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment
opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue in
handling work-related issues. In promoting social justice and
internationally recognized human and labour rights, the organization
continues to pursue its founding mission that labour peace is
essential to prosperity. Today the ILO helps advance the creation of
decent jobs and the kinds of economic and working conditions that
give working people and business people a stake
in lasting peace, prosperity and progress.

For more information, visit: www.ilo.org

REMINDER - "Unleashing India's Innovation: Toward Sustainable and Inclusive Growth" discussed at the InfoShop on Tuesday, October 9 at 10:00 am in J1-050 (coffee and cookies served at 9:45 am)

InfoShop & The Finance and Private Sector Development Unit, South Asia Region
cordially invite you to a book launch and panel discussion featuring

Unleashing India's Innovation:
Toward Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
Mark Dutz (editor)

This is undoubtedly one of the most important policy reports from the World Bank
in recent years. Energetic implementation of the policy proposals contained in
this book will enable the economy to ensure that the present growth momentum is
maintained and to achieve a growth miracle in the coming decades. This superb
report requires full reading.
Vijay Kelkar, Chairman, India Development Foundation, New Delhi

India's challenge over the next two decades will be to maintain and increase the
encouraging growth rates over the past few years whilst empowering and investing
in people, particularly poor people. Innovation and investment will be at the
heart of any success. This important book provides a powerful analytical
contribution to this challenge that will be of lasting value.
Sir Nicholas Stern, Director, Asia Research Centre (ARC), IG Patel Chair and
Head of ARC India Observatory, London School of Economics and Political Science

Tuesday, October 9
10:00 - 11:30 am
(Coffee and cookies will be served at 9:45 am)
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

For non bank staff, please rsvp

WELCOMING REMARKS AND CHAIR
Praful Patel
Vice President, South Asia Region, World Bank

SHORT VIDEO ON "UNLEASHING INDIA'S INNOVATION"

EDITOR AND AUTHOR
Mark Dutz
South Asia Region, World Bank

PANELISTS BY VIDEOCONFERENCE
Sam Pitroda
Chairman, National Knowledge Commission, New Delhi

Anand Patwardhan
Executive Director, Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council,
New Delhi

LOCAL PANELISTS
Carl Dahlman
Professor, Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service

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

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

REMINDER - "The Challenge of Rural Electrification: Strategies for Developing Countries" discussed at the InfoShop on Tuesday October 9 at 12:00 pm in J1-050

InfoShop & ESMAP
The InfoShop and Energy Sector Management Assistance Program
cordially invite you to a book launch and panel discussion featuring

The Challenge of Rural Electrification:
Strategies for Developing Countries
(a copublication with RFF Press)

Edited by Douglas F. Barnes

Written by development experts ranging in expertise from engineering to economic
history, this book demonstrates that there are major opportunities to increase
the pace and widen the scope of rural electrification. Case studies of
successful rural electrification programs in Bangladesh, Chile, China, Costa
Rica, Ireland, Mexico, the Philippines, Thailand, Tunisia, and the United States
will be of interest to a broad range of policy makers, development
professionals, and community advocates. The book confirms that there is not one
way to accomplish rural electrification, but an underlying set of principles
that should be followed in order to reach the 1.6 billion people currently
without access to electricity services.
Tuesday, October 9th
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, J1-050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)
________________________________________________________________________________
Introduced by
Jamal Saghir
Jamal Saghir is Director of the Energy, Transport and Water department in the
Sustainable Development Vice Presidency of the World Bank and Chair of the
Energy and Mining, Transport, and Water Sector Boards. Mr. Saghir joined the
Bank in 1990 as a Financial Officer specializing in private sector development,
privatization and restructuring assignments. He became Principal Private Sector
Development Specialist in 1997, and was appointed Sector Manager in the
Infrastructure Development Group in MENA, in 1999.

Presented by
S. Vijay Iyer
Vijay Iyer is Sector Manager for Energy for the Africa Region at the World Bank.
His 15+ years of experience as an Infrastructure Project Leader at the Bank
builds upon 10 years of experience in development and public administration in
India. Mr. Iyer?s Bank career spans projects in the South Asia and Africa
regions, covering the full range of energy sector activities from renewable and
household energy to large scale oil/gas, electricity generation, transmission,
and distribution.

Elizabeth Cecelski
Elizabeth Cecelski (Co-author) has worked for more than 25 years on rural
electrification and rural development and serves on the 3-member Technical
Advisory Group for the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program. She was an
energy economist at Resources for the Future and later worked in the Rural
Employment Policies Branch of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva.
She is a founding member of the Advisory Group and technical adviser for
ENERGIA, the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy.

Douglas F. Barnes
Doug Barnes is a Senior Energy Specialist in the Energy Sector Management
Assistance Program and has been working in rural and urban development for over
25 years. Mr. Barnes has published extensively on the topic, and led efforts to
develop a rural energy strategy at the World Bank Group. Before joining the
World Bank, he worked at the Center for Energy Policy Research at Resources for
the Future. He recently coauthored The Urban Energy Transition: Energy, Poverty
and the Environment in the Developing World and Environmental Health and
Traditional Fuel Use in Guatemala.

Moderated by
Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez
Ede Ijjasz is the manager of the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) and the
Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP). These are global
partnership programs administered by the World Bank and supported by 14 donor
countries. Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr. Ijjasz worked in environmental
consulting. He is currently a lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University Master?s
Program of Environmental Science and Policy, in the area of contaminant fate and
transport modeling and policy.

For more information or to order the book, please visit:
http://www.rff.org/rff/RFF_Press/CustomBookPages/RuralElectrification.cfm

___________________________________________________________________________________________
About the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP)
ESMAP is a multi-donor trust fund program administered by the World Bank and
established in 1983. The Program helps build consensus and provides policy
advice on sustainable energy development to governments of developing countries
and economies in transition. ESMAP promotes the role of energy in poverty
reduction and economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner. Its work
applies to low-income, emerging, and transition economies and contributes to the
achievement of internationally agreed development goals.

For more information, visit: www.esmap.org

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

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

REMINDER - "The Challenge of Rural Electrification: Strategies for Developing Countries" discussed at the InfoShop on Tuesday October 9 at 12:00 pm in J1-050

(Embedded image moved to file: pic05716.gif) & (Embedded image
moved to file: pic10573.jpg)

The InfoShop and Energy Sector Management Assistance Program

cordially invite you to a book launch and panel discussion featuring
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| (Embedded image moved to | The Challenge of Rural |
| file: pic31561.jpg) | Electrification: |
| | Strategies for Developing |
| | Countries |
| | (a copublication with RFF |
| | Press) |
| | |
| | Edited by Douglas F. Barnes |
| | |
| | Written by development experts |
| | ranging in expertise from |
| | engineering to economic |
| | history, this book demonstrates |
| | that there are major |
| | opportunities to increase the |
| | pace and widen the scope of |
| | rural electrification. Case |
| | studies of successful rural |
| | electrification programs in |
| | Bangladesh, Chile, China, Costa |
| | Rica, Ireland, Mexico, the |
| | Philippines, Thailand, Tunisia, |
| | and the United States will be |
| | of interest to a broad range of |
| | policy makers, development |
| | professionals, and community |
| | advocates. The book confirms |
| | that there is not one way to |
| | accomplish rural |
| | electrification, but an |
| | underlying set of principles |
| | that should be followed in |
| | order to reach the 1.6 billion |
| | people currently without access |
| | to electricity services. |
| | |
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Tuesday, October 9th
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, J1-050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

________________________________________________________________________________
Introduced by
Jamal Saghir
Jamal Saghir is Director of the Energy, Transport and Water
department in the Sustainable Development Vice Presidency of the
World Bank and Chair of the Energy and Mining, Transport, and Water
Sector Boards. Mr. Saghir joined the Bank in 1990 as a Financial
Officer specializing in private sector development, privatization
and restructuring assignments. He became Principal Private Sector
Development Specialist in 1997, and was appointed Sector Manager in
the Infrastructure Development Group in MENA, in 1999.

Presented by
S. Vijay Iyer
Vijay Iyer is Sector Manager for Energy for the Africa Region at the
World Bank. His 15+ years of experience as an Infrastructure Project
Leader at the Bank builds upon 10 years of experience in development
and public administration in India. Mr. Iyer?s Bank career spans
projects in the South Asia and Africa regions, covering the full
range of energy sector activities from renewable and household
energy to large scale oil/gas, electricity generation, transmission,
and distribution.

Elizabeth Cecelski
Elizabeth Cecelski (Co-author) has worked for more than 25 years on
rural electrification and rural development and serves on the
3-member Technical Advisory Group for the Energy Sector Management
Assistance Program. She was an energy economist at Resources for the
Future and later worked in the Rural Employment Policies Branch of
the International Labour Organisation in Geneva. She is a founding
member of the Advisory Group and technical adviser for ENERGIA, the
International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy.

Douglas F. Barnes
Doug Barnes is a Senior Energy Specialist in the Energy Sector
Management Assistance Program and has been working in rural and
urban development for over 25 years. Mr. Barnes has published
extensively on the topic, and led efforts to develop a rural energy
strategy at the World Bank Group. Before joining the World Bank, he
worked at the Center for Energy Policy Research at Resources for the
Future. He recently coauthored The Urban Energy Transition: Energy,
Poverty and the Environment in the Developing World and
Environmental Health and Traditional Fuel Use in Guatemala.

Moderated by
Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez
Ede Ijjasz is the manager of the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)
and the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP). These
are global partnership programs administered by the World Bank and
supported by 14 donor countries. Prior to joining the World Bank,
Mr. Ijjasz worked in environmental consulting. He is currently a
lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University Master?s Program of
Environmental Science and Policy, in the area of contaminant fate
and transport modeling and policy.

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

http://www.rff.org/rff/RFF_Press/CustomBookPages/RuralElectrification.cfm

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About the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP)
ESMAP is a multi-donor trust fund program administered by the World
Bank and established in 1983. The Program helps build consensus and
provides policy advice on sustainable energy development to
governments of developing countries and economies in transition.
ESMAP promotes the role of energy in poverty reduction and economic
growth in an environmentally responsible manner. Its work applies to
low-income, emerging, and transition economies and contributes to
the achievement of internationally agreed development goals.

For more information, visit: www.esmap.org

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 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 - "Unleashing India's Innovation: Toward Sustainable and Inclusive Growth" discussed at the InfoShop on Tuesday, October 9 at 10:00 am in J1-050 (coffee and cookies served at 9:45 am)

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The Finance and Private Sector Development Unit, South Asia Region

cordially invite you to a book launch and panel discussion featuring
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| | Unleashing India's Innovation: |
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| | Mark Dutz (editor) |
| | |
| | This is undoubtedly one of the most |
| | important policy reports from the |
| | World Bank in recent years. Energetic |
| | implementation of the policy |
| | proposals contained in this book will |
| | enable the economy to ensure that the |
| | present growth momentum is maintained |
| | and to achieve a growth miracle in |
| | the coming decades. This superb |
| | report requires full reading. |
| | Vijay Kelkar, Chairman, India |
| | Development Foundation, New Delhi |
| | |
| | India's challenge over the next two |
| | decades will be to maintain and |
| | increase the encouraging growth rates |
| | over the past few years whilst |
| | empowering and investing in people, |
| | particularly poor people. Innovation |
| | and investment will be at the heart |
| | of any success. This important book |
| | provides a powerful analytical |
| | contribution to this challenge that |
| | will be of lasting value. |
| | Sir Nicholas Stern, Director, Asia |
| | Research Centre (ARC), IG Patel Chair |
| | and Head of ARC India Observatory, |
| | London School of Economics and |
| | Political Science |
| | |
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Tuesday, October 9
10:00 - 11:30 am
(Coffee and cookies will be served at 9:45 am)
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

WELCOMING REMARKS AND CHAIR
Praful Patel
Vice President, South Asia Region, World Bank

SHORT VIDEO ON "UNLEASHING INDIA'S INNOVATION"

EDITOR AND AUTHOR
Mark Dutz
South Asia Region, World Bank

PANELISTS BY VIDEOCONFERENCE
Sam Pitroda
Chairman, National Knowledge Commission, New Delhi

Anand Patwardhan
Executive Director, Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council,
New Delhi

LOCAL PANELISTS
Carl Dahlman
Professor, Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service

Charles Wessner
Director, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, The National Academies

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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: Moving Out of Poverty (Volume 1): Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility on October 3 at 11:00am in JB1-080

InfoShop & The Poverty Reduction Group (PRMPR)

Invite you to a book launch featuring a recent publication
MOVING OUT OF POVERTY
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility (Volume 1)
Edited by Deepa Narayan, Patti Petesch

This book makes a case for focusing on mobility to better understand the
barriers to reducing poverty. Leading development practitioners and scholars
from the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology
critically examine the literature from their disciplines and contribute new
frameworks and evidence from their own works.

While covering a vast body of conceptual and empirical knowledge about economic
and social mobility, the authors take the reader on compelling journeys of
multigenerational accounts of mobility in two villages in Kanartaka, India,
three favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the life of a street child in Burkina
Faso, and much more.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
World Bank J Building, JB1-080
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

Chair:
Luca Barbone
Sector Director, Poverty Reduction Group, World Bank

Introductory Remarks:
Deepa Narayan
Senior Advisor, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank

Patti Petesch
Consultant, Poverty Reduction Group, World Bank

Keynote Address:
"Democracy and Mobility"
Charles Tilly
Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University

Discussants:
Steen Lau Jorgensen
Sector Director, Social Development Department, World Bank

Vijayendra Rao
Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank

The Moving Out of Poverty series, launched in 2007, is under the editorial
direction of Deepa Narayan, Senior Advisor of the World Bank and former director
of the Voices of the Poor series. Future volumes will feature the results of new
comparative research across more than 500 communities in 17 countries to
understand how and why people move out of poverty.

For more information or to order the report, please visit:
http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=6361596
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: Moving Out of Poverty (Volume 1): Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility on October 3 at 11:00am in JB1-080

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The Poverty Reduction Group (PRMPR)

Invite you to a book launch featuring a recent publication
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| | MOVING OUT OF POVERTY |
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| to file: | Edited by Deepa Narayan, Patti Petesch |
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| ) | This book makes a case for focusing on mobility |
| | to better understand the barriers to reducing |
| | poverty. Leading development practitioners and |
| | scholars from the fields of anthropology, |
| | economics, political science, and sociology |
| | critically examine the literature from their |
| | disciplines and contribute new frameworks and |
| | evidence from their own works. |
| | |
| | While covering a vast body of conceptual and |
| | empirical knowledge about economic and social |
| | mobility, the authors take the reader on |
| | compelling journeys of multigenerational accounts |
| | of mobility in two villages in Kanartaka, India, |
| | three favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the life |
| | of a street child in Burkina Faso, and much more. |
| | |
| | |
|--------------+---------------------------------------------------|

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
World Bank J Building, JB1-080
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served

Chair:
Luca Barbone
Sector Director, Poverty Reduction Group, World Bank

Introductory Remarks:
Deepa Narayan
Senior Advisor, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World
Bank

Patti Petesch
Consultant, Poverty Reduction Group, World Bank

Keynote Address:
"Democracy and Mobility"
Charles Tilly
Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University

Discussants:
Steen Lau Jorgensen
Sector Director, Social Development Department, World Bank

Vijayendra Rao
Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank

The Moving Out of Poverty series, launched in 2007, is under the
editorial direction of Deepa Narayan, Senior Advisor of the World
Bank and former director of the Voices of the Poor series. Future
volumes will feature the results of new comparative research across
more than 500 communities in 17 countries to understand how and why
people move out of poverty.

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

http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=6361596

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Trade Imbalance: The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights Concerns in Trade Policymaking" discussed at the InfoShop on October 9 at 12:00 pm in JB1-080

(See attached file: Trade Imbalance flyer.pdf)

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