Wednesday, November 21, 2007

"The International Migration of Women" discussed at the InfoShop on November 28 at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop, Gender and Development Group (PRMGE) & Development Research Group
(DECRG)

cordially invite you to a book launch and panel discussion featuring

The International Migration of Women
Edited by Andrew R. Morrison, Maurice Schiff and Mirja Sjöblom

It is estimated that more than 190 million people--3 percent of the world's
population-- presently live outside their country of birth. Of these
international migrants, close to one half are women. Despite the great number
of female migrants, there has been a striking lack of gender analysis in the
economic literature on international migration and development.

This volume analyzes the determinants and implications of women's migration in
various parts of the world. It discusses topics such as the gendered
determinants of remittances, the labor market performance of female migrants
and policy options to enhance the benefit of female migration in destination
and source countries.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building Auditorium J1 - 050
701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
For non bank staff, please rsvp ti InfoShopevents@worldbank.org

Welcoming Remarks
Danny Leipziger
Vice President, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network

Presented by the authors
Andrew R. Morrison
Lead Economist, Gender and Development Unit, Poverty Reduction and Economic
Management Network

Maurice Schiff
Lead Economist, Development Research Group

Mirja Sjöblom
Consultant, Development Research Group

With comments by
Kathleen Newland
Director, Migrants, Migration, and Development and Refugee Protection Programs
Migration Policy Institute

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

"The International Migration of Women" discussed at the InfoShop on November 28 at 12:00pm in J1-050

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Gender and Development Group (PRMGE) & Development Research Group (DECRG)

cordially invite you to a book launch and panel discussion featuring
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| | people--3 percent of the world's population-- |
| | presently live outside their country of birth. Of |
| | these international migrants, close to one half |
| | are women. Despite the great number of female |
| | migrants, there has been a striking lack of |
| | gender analysis in the economic literature on |
| | international migration and development. |
| | |
| | This volume analyzes the determinants and |
| | implications of women's migration in various |
| | parts of the world. It discusses topics such as |
| | the gendered determinants of remittances, the |
| | labor market performance of female migrants and |
| | policy options to enhance the benefit of female |
| | migration in destination and source countries. |
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building Auditorium J1 - 050
701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

Note: This button will also add the event to your Lotus Notes calendar

Welcoming Remarks
Danny Leipziger
Vice President, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network

Presented by the authors
Andrew R. Morrison
Lead Economist, Gender and Development Unit, Poverty Reduction and Economic
Management Network

Maurice Schiff
Lead Economist, Development Research Group

Mirja Sjöblom
Consultant, Development Research Group

With comments by
Kathleen Newland
Director, Migrants, Migration, and Development and Refugee Protection Programs
Migration Policy Institute

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

Photo Exhibit: "I Want You To Know" on November 29 at noon in the InfoShop

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

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"I have worked with photography for over 40 years. To take
photographs means to write with light. I have worked and travelled
in about eighty countries, and I have done so in the conviction that
you can create a greataer understanding with words and images for
those people who have it hard in life. To portray the injustices in
the world and show how women and children get their human rights
violated daily throughout the world I hope create a change so that
these violations hopefully will cease and the world will become a
more just place to live in for the most vulnerable in society."
Ulla Lemberg, Photographer

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Development and Faith" discussed in the InfoShop on Friday, November 30 at 12:30pm, J1-050

InfoShop and Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics
invite you to a discussion featuring a recent publication:

DEVELOPMENT AND FAITH:
Where Mind, Heart, and Soul Work Together
by Katherine Marshall and Marisa Van Saanen

Development and Faith: Where Mind, Heart, and Soul Work Together explores and
highlights promising partnerships in the world between secular and faith
development entities. It recounts the evolving history of relationships between
faith and secular development institutions. It focuses on the Millennium
Development Goals as a common framework for action and an opportunity for new
forms of collaboration and partnership.

For more information about the book, please visit:
http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=6799448


"We need to do a better job to learn from successful faith and interfaith work
to make the world a better, more peaceful place. This volume describes an
impressive array of innovative partnerships and alliances. It inspires us to
dream bigger about what development can accomplish."
David Saperstein, Director and Counsel, Religious Action Center of Reform
Judaism

Friday, November 30, 2007
12:30 - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
Cookes and Coffee will be served
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
________________________________________________________________________________________________________

OPENING REMARKS
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President, Human Development Network,World Bank
Ms. Phumaphi, a Botswana national, began public service in Botswana as a local
government auditor. From 1994 to 2003, she went on to serve in Parliament and as
a representative to the Southern African Development Community. She entered the
Cabinet with responsibility for lands and housing and developed the first
national housing policy. Ms. Phumaphi subsequently served as Minister for
Health where she restructured the ministry to make it more focused on results
while overseeing revision of the Public Health Act and putting into action a
multi-sectoral plan to combat HIV/AIDS. In 2003, she joined the World Health
Organization as the Assistant Director General for Family and Community Health
Department, managing a staff of over 1100 globally. She is in the Board of
GAVI. She has served as a member of the UN Reference Group on Economics and a
UN Commissioner on HIV/AIDS and Governance. She is a member of the UNDP
advisory board for Africa. Ms. Phumaphi is a distinguished Afgrad Fellow who
serves as a member of the Africa-America Institute Campaign Committee. She
joined the Bank and became the Vice President of the Human Development Network
on February 5, 2007.

DISCUSSED BY
James Adams
Vice President, East Asia and the Pacific Region, World Bank
Mr. Adams has overall responsibility for World Bank operations in the one of the
world?s most dynamic regions. Previously, Mr. Adams was Vice President and Head
of Network, Operations Policy and Country Services, at the World Bank. In this
capacity, he was responsible for operational policy development, procurement and
financial management activities, relations with United Nations and
nongovernmental organizations, and support to Regional staff working in all
these areas. Since joining the Bank in 1974, he has held a variety of
operational positions in East Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa,
including as Country Director for Tanzania and Uganda, as Director for
Operations Policy, and as a Division Chief of several departments. Before
joining the Bank, Mr. Adams worked as a loan officer for Merchants Bank, in
Syracuse, NY, and with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in Geneva,
Switzerland.


PRESENTED BY AUTHORS
Katherine Marshall
Senior Advisor, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Marshall has worked for over three decades on international development,
with a focus on issues facing the world?s poorest countries. She is also a
Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor at Georgetown's Berkley Center for
Religion, Peace and World Affairs. From 2000-2006 her mandate covered ethics,
values, and faith in development work, as counselor to the World Bank?s
President. Ms. Marshall served earlier as Country Director in the World Bank?s
Africa region, first for the Sahel region, then Southern Africa. She led the
Bank's work on social policy and governance during the East Asia crisis years.
She also worked extensively on Eastern Africa and Latin America.

Marisa Van Saanen
Ms. Van Saanen has worked with the Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics
since 2003 and is currently a JD student at the Yale Law School. Ms. Van Saanen
has volunteered, interned, and worked with a variety of organizations working on
health and poverty issues, including with a rural U.S. Department of Human
Services; with Washington, D.C. non-profits like Food & Friends; with Bread for
the World; with the United States Senate on health and aging issues; and with
former President Clinton?s Office of National AIDS Policy. She has traveled
extensively studying social movements and grassroots organizing; wrote her
graduate thesis on the WTO and public health; and has twice co-taught an
undergraduate course in India, on the Gandhian Legacy, Grassroots Development,
and Conflict Resolution in India.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

"Development and Faith" discussed in the InfoShop on Friday, November 30 at 12:30pm, J1-050

InfoShop events are now on the learning catalog. Please register by clicking on
the link below:

http://lms.worldbank.org/infoshop

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and
Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics
invite you to a discussion featuring a recent publication:
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| (Embedded | DEVELOPMENT AND FAITH: |
| image moved | Where Mind, Heart, and Soul Work Together |
| to file: | by Katherine Marshall and Marisa Van Saanen |
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| ) | Development and Faith: Where Mind, Heart, and |
| | Soul Work Together explores and highlights |
| | promising partnerships in the world between |
| | secular and faith development entities. It |
| | recounts the evolving history of relationships |
| | between faith and secular development |
| | institutions. It focuses on the Millennium |
| | Development Goals as a common framework for |
| | action and an opportunity for new forms of |
| | collaboration and partnership. |
| | |
| | For more information about the book, please |
| | visit: |
| | http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalo |
| | g/product?item_id=6799448 |
| | |
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"We need to do a better job to learn from successful faith and
interfaith work to make the world a better, more peaceful place.
This volume describes an impressive array of innovative partnerships
and alliances. It inspires us to dream bigger about what development
can accomplish."
David Saperstein, Director and Counsel, Religious Action Center of
Reform Judaism

Friday, November 30, 2007
12:30 - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
Cookes and Coffee will be served

Note: This button will also add the event to your Lotus Notes calendar
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
________________________________________________________________________________________________________


OPENING REMARKS
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President, Human Development Network,World Bank
Ms. Phumaphi, a Botswana national, began public service in Botswana
as a local government auditor. From 1994 to 2003, she went on to
serve in Parliament and as a representative to the Southern African
Development Community. She entered the Cabinet with responsibility
for lands and housing and developed the first national housing
policy. Ms. Phumaphi subsequently served as Minister for Health
where she restructured the ministry to make it more focused on
results while overseeing revision of the Public Health Act and
putting into action a multi-sectoral plan to combat HIV/AIDS. In
2003, she joined the World Health Organization as the Assistant
Director General for Family and Community Health Department,
managing a staff of over 1100 globally. She is in the Board of
GAVI. She has served as a member of the UN Reference Group on
Economics and a UN Commissioner on HIV/AIDS and Governance. She is
a member of the UNDP advisory board for Africa. Ms. Phumaphi is a
distinguished Afgrad Fellow who serves as a member of the
Africa-America Institute Campaign Committee. She joined the Bank
and became the Vice President of the Human Development Network on
February 5, 2007.

DISCUSSED BY
James Adams
Vice President, East Asia and the Pacific Region, World Bank
Mr. Adams has overall responsibility for World Bank operations in
the one of the world?s most dynamic regions. Previously, Mr. Adams
was Vice President and Head of Network, Operations Policy and
Country Services, at the World Bank. In this capacity, he was
responsible for operational policy development, procurement and
financial management activities, relations with United Nations and
nongovernmental organizations, and support to Regional staff working
in all these areas. Since joining the Bank in 1974, he has held a
variety of operational positions in East Asia, Latin America, and
Sub-Saharan Africa, including as Country Director for Tanzania and
Uganda, as Director for Operations Policy, and as a Division Chief
of several departments. Before joining the Bank, Mr. Adams worked
as a loan officer for Merchants Bank, in Syracuse, NY, and with the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in Geneva, Switzerland.


PRESENTED BY AUTHORS
Katherine Marshall
Senior Advisor, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Marshall has worked for over three decades on international
development, with a focus on issues facing the world?s poorest
countries. She is also a Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor at
Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs.
From 2000-2006 her mandate covered ethics, values, and faith in
development work, as counselor to the World Bank?s President. Ms.
Marshall served earlier as Country Director in the World Bank?s
Africa region, first for the Sahel region, then Southern Africa.
She led the Bank's work on social policy and governance during the
East Asia crisis years. She also worked extensively on Eastern
Africa and Latin America.

Marisa Van Saanen
Ms. Van Saanen has worked with the Development Dialogue on Values
and Ethics since 2003 and is currently a JD student at the Yale Law
School. Ms. Van Saanen has volunteered, interned, and worked with a
variety of organizations working on health and poverty issues,
including with a rural U.S. Department of Human Services; with
Washington, D.C. non-profits like Food & Friends; with Bread for the
World; with the United States Senate on health and aging issues; and
with former President Clinton?s Office of National AIDS Policy. She
has traveled extensively studying social movements and grassroots
organizing; wrote her graduate thesis on the WTO and public health;
and has twice co-taught an undergraduate course in India, on the
Gandhian Legacy, Grassroots Development, and Conflict Resolution in
India.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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

Photo Exhibit: "I Want You To Know" on November 29 at noon in the InfoShop

Note: This button will also add the event to your Lotus Notes calendar
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org

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"I have worked with photography for over 40 years. To take
photographs means to write with light. I have worked and travelled
in about eighty countries, and I have done so in the conviction that
you can create a greataer understanding with words and images for
those people who have it hard in life. To portray the injustices in
the world and show how women and children get their human rights
violated daily throughout the world I hope create a change so that
these violations hopefully will cease and the world will become a
more just place to live in for the most vulnerable in society."
Ulla Lemberg, Photographer

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Young People and the UN MDGs in MENA - Making the MDGs a Reality - Case Study of Morocco" on November 28 at 6:00pm in H auditorium

(See attached file: morocco MDG flyer.pdf)

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Monday, November 19, 2007

"World Food Security: A History Since 1945" discussed at the InfoShop on Tuesday November 27 at 3:00 pm in J1-050

InfoShop & the World Bank Agriculture and Rural Development Department
cordially invite you to a book launch and panel discussion featuring


World Food Security
A History since 1945

by D. John Shaw

This book provides the first comprehensive history of the numerous attempts made
since the Second World War to provide food security for all. It shows not only
the many ways in which attempts to achieve food and nutrition security unfolded,
and the sequence in which they occurred, but also why they did not succeed, and
what lessons can be drawn for the future. The book provides a point of reference
for all those interested and involved in food security issues.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007
3:00 - 5:00 pm
(a reception will follow the presentation)
World Bank J Building Auditorium J1 - 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

Welcoming Remarks and Chair
Roger Morier
Senior Communications Officer, Sustainable Development Network, World Bank

Presented by the author
D. John Shaw
John Shaw was associated with the United Nations World Food Programme for over
thirty years, most recently as Economic Adviser and Chief of its Policy Affairs
Service. He was also a Consultant to the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the World Bank.
Previously, he was a postgraduate in Agricultural Economics at the University of
Oxford, UK, Senior Lecturer in Rural Economy at the University of Khartoum,
Sudan, and Fellow in Agricultural Economics and a founding member of the
Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK.


Panelists
Dr. Marc Cohen
Research Fellow, Food Consumption and Nutrition Division, International Food
Policy Research Institute
Dr. Marc Cohen is the interim leader of IFPRI's research program on policy
processes in food security and nutrition, and a Research Fellow in the Food
Consumption and Nutrition Division. His current research focuses on global and
national institutions and policy processes related to food security and
nutrition, global humanitarian aid policy, conflict and food security,
post-crisis reconstruction, the right to adequate food, and the impact of food
aid on community empowerment. He is a professorial lecturer in international
development at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns
Hopkins University.


Christopher Delgado
Adviser, Agriculture and Rural Development Department, World Bank
Christopher Delgado joined the World Bank in April 2006 as the Rural Strategy
and Policy Adviser, located in the central Agriculture and Rural Development
Department. He came to the Bank from nearly 27 years at the International Food
Policy Research Institute, where he co-founded IFPRI?s Global Research Program
on High Value Agriculture. He has worked extensively in Africa and Asia. From
2003 until joining the Bank, he was also a joint appointee of the International
Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi Kenya, where he directed ILRI?s
Markets division. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Regards sur la Terre 2008: A French Annual Report on Sustainable Development" Discussed at the InfoShop on Tuesday November 27 at 12:00

InfoShop & the World Bank Sustainable Development Network
cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring


Regards sur la Terre 2008
A French Annual Report
on Sustainable Development

Every year, Regards sur la Terre analyzes an issue of relevance to world
development, highlighting in particular its implications for developing
countries. Regards sur la Terre 2008 relates to nature, biodiversity and
development.


Two French institutions, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the
Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI)
teamed up in 2005 to prepare an annual report on sustainable development. AFD,
a financial institution, is a main actor in France?s development assistance
policy. IDDRI was created in 2001 to foster research in the field of sustainable
development.

This latest edition of Regards sur la Terre 2008 deals with nature, biodiversity
and development, and has been written by the foremost experts, French or
international, on each of the issues discussed. It emphasizes, among others, the
seriousness of the crisis created by the worldwide destruction of biodiversity.
This crisis, which has remained largely unnoticed by governments and public
opinion, will be worsened in the future by the ongoing climate change, unless
unprecedented actions are taken.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007
12:00 - 2:00 pm
A limited number of books will be raffled to participants at the event and a
buffet lunch will be served

World Bank J Building Auditorium J1 - 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.


Welcoming Remarks and Chair
Roger Morier
Senior Communications Officer, Sustainable Development Network, World Bank

Panelists
Ambroise Fayolle
Executive Director for France, World Bank/IMF

Jacques Loup
Coordinator, Annual Reports "Regards Sur la Terre"

Kerstin Canby
Director, Forest Trade and Finance Program, Forest Trends
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Regards sur la Terre 2008: A French Annual Report on Sustainable Development" Discussed at the InfoShop on Tuesday November 27 at 12:00

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&
the World Bank Sustainable Development Network
cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring
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| worldwide | 12:00 - 2:00 pm |
| destruction of | A limited number of books will be |
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| will be worsened | St. and Pennsylvania Ave. |
| in the future by | |
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| unless | Note: This button will add the |
| unprecedented | event to Lotus Notes calendars |
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Welcoming Remarks and Chair
Roger Morier
Senior Communications Officer, Sustainable Development Network, World Bank

Panelists
Ambroise Fayolle
Executive Director for France, World Bank/IMF

Jacques Loup
Coordinator, Annual Reports "Regards Sur la Terre"

Kerstin Canby
Director, Forest Trade and Finance Program, Forest Trends


______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"World Food Security: A History Since 1945" discussed at the InfoShop on Tuesday November 27 at 3:00 pm in J1-050

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the World Bank Agriculture and Rural Development Department
cordially invite you to a book launch and panel discussion featuring

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| | by D. John Shaw |
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| | This book provides the first |
| | comprehensive history of the numerous |
| | attempts made since the Second World War |
| | to provide food security for all. It |
| | shows not only the many ways in which |
| | attempts to achieve food and nutrition |
| | security unfolded, and the sequence in |
| | which they occurred, but also why they |
| | did not succeed, and what lessons can be |
| | drawn for the future. The book provides a |
| | point of reference for all those |
| | interested and involved in food security |
| | issues. |
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| | Tuesday, November 27, 2007 |
| | 3:00 - 5:00 pm |
| | (a reception will follow the |
| | presentation) |
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| | World Bank J Building Auditorium J1 - 050 |
| | 701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and |
| | Pennsylvania Ave. |
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Welcoming Remarks and Chair
Roger Morier
Senior Communications Officer, Sustainable Development Network, World Bank

Presented by the author
D. John Shaw
John Shaw was associated with the United Nations World Food
Programme for over thirty years, most recently as Economic Adviser
and Chief of its Policy Affairs Service. He was also a Consultant to
the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations (FAO), and the World Bank. Previously, he was
a postgraduate in Agricultural Economics at the University of
Oxford, UK, Senior Lecturer in Rural Economy at the University of
Khartoum, Sudan, and Fellow in Agricultural Economics and a founding
member of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of
Sussex, UK.


Panelists
Dr. Marc Cohen
Research Fellow, Food Consumption and Nutrition Division, International Food
Policy Research Institute
Dr. Marc Cohen is the interim leader of IFPRI's research program on
policy processes in food security and nutrition, and a Research
Fellow in the Food Consumption and Nutrition Division. His current
research focuses on global and national institutions and policy
processes related to food security and nutrition, global
humanitarian aid policy, conflict and food security, post-crisis
reconstruction, the right to adequate food, and the impact of food
aid on community empowerment. He is a professorial lecturer in
international development at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.


Christopher Delgado
Adviser, Agriculture and Rural Development Department, World Bank
Christopher Delgado joined the World Bank in April 2006 as the Rural
Strategy and Policy Adviser, located in the central Agriculture and
Rural Development Department. He came to the Bank from nearly 27
years at the International Food Policy Research Institute, where he
co-founded IFPRI?s Global Research Program on High Value
Agriculture. He has worked extensively in Africa and Asia. From 2003
until joining the Bank, he was also a joint appointee of the
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi Kenya,
where he directed ILRI?s Markets division. He holds a Ph.D. in
Economics from Cornell University.

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