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cordially invite you to the launch of:
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| The World Trade Indicators |
| Tools for Policy Analysis |
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| Trade integration plays an important role in national |
| development and poverty reduction. This compact, user-friendly, |
| and easily accessible interactive database contains 126 |
| indicators measuring at-the-border and behind-the-border trade |
| policy performance and outcome for 208 countries. Drawing from |
| internationally comparable databases and including some new |
| measures of trade policy, the database groups country |
| performance around five main pillars: border protection, such |
| as tariffs and non-tariff barriers on goods and services; |
| constraints to market access in the rest of the world; the |
| overall business and institutional environment; trade |
| facilitation; and trade outcomes, such as trade growth, and |
| diversification. These indicators can be used to benchmark and |
| rank a country?s policy and outcome performance vis-a-vis |
| partners, and current and potential competitors on world |
| markets. The database may also be used to compare changes in |
| policy and outcomes during the last decade. |
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Wednesday, December 19
11:30 am -1:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A buffet lunch will be served.
Note: This button will also add the event to your Lotus Notes calendar
For more information contact Lucas Bossard:
Email:lbossard1@worldbank.org; Phone: 202-473-0548
WELCOMING REMARKS
Rakesh Nangia
Acting Vice President
World Bank Institute
Mr. Nangia is the World Bank Institute?s (WBI) Acting Vice President
and Director of Operations. The latter position he assumed in
September 2006 and he was appointed Acting Vice President of WBI in
March 2007. In his more than 20 years in the World Bank, Mr.
Nangia?s career has spanned a wide range of countries and positions,
including development work in Africa, East Asia, Eastern Europe and
South Asia, as well as in the Bank's Corporate Secretariat and
Central Accounting group. Prior to his current position, Mr. Nangia
served as Manager, Portfolio and Country Operations, in Vietnam.
INTRODUCTION
Danny Leipziger
Vice President and Head of Network
Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank
Mr. Leipziger has been Vice President of the World Bank's Poverty
Reduction and Economic Management Network since 2004. He provides
leadership for the Bank?s strategic work on growth and poverty
reduction and is also the focal point for economic policy, debt,
trade, gender and governance issues. His previous positions at the
Bank have included Director of the Finance, Infrastructure and
Private Sector Group of the Latin America and the Caribbean Region
(LAC); and Lead Departmental Economist in both the LAC and the East
Asia and Pacific Regions. Prior to joining the Bank, he worked with
the U.S. Department of State and with the U.S. Agency for
International Development.
PRESENTERS
Roumeen Islam
Manager
Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank Institute
Ms. Islam is Manager of the World Bank Institute?s Poverty Reduction
& Economic Management Division. Prior to joining WBI, Ms. Islam was
Staff Director of the World Bank's World Development Report 2002:
Building Institutions for Markets.She was advisor to the Chief
Economist and Senior Vice President in the Bank's Development
Economics group. Ms. Islam has also worked in World Bank Operations
in several regions. Her professional expertise includes public
expenditure rationalization, fiscal stability, growth strategies,
trade and exchange rate issues, sovereign debt rationalization,
financial sector reform, and private sector development.
Gianni Zanini
Lead Economist
World Bank Institute
Mr. Zanini is a Lead Economist at the World Bank Institute (WBI).
Since late 2002, he has led WBI?s trade team, working on capacity
building and external training programs in trade policy reform,
trade facilitation, and the multilateral, regional, and bilateral
trade agreements. He has more than 17 years experience at the World
Bank, first as a country economist and then as an evaluator of the
performance of Bank programs. Prior to working at the World Bank, he
taught at the University of California, Davis.
DISCUSSANT
Michael Moore
Elliott School of International Affairs and Department of Economics
George Washington University
Mr. Moore is the founding Director of the Institute for
International Economic Policy at the George Washington University?s
Elliott School of International Affairs. He served as Senior
Economist for International Trade at the White House Council of
Economic Advisers from July 2002 through July 2003. He teaches
courses on international economics, at the undergraduate, master's,
and PhD levels. Mr. Moore's most recent research is on antidumping
procedures in the United States, and U.S. and European steel
industries and their adjustment to international competition.
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