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cordially invite you to the launch of
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| | improve policies and institutions |
| | supporting trade integration in the |
| Tuesday, June 17 | global economy. Countries that have |
| 12:00 - 1:30 pm | the best policies and institutions |
| World Bank J Building | also tend to have stronger and more |
| Auditorium J1-050 | consistent trade and export |
| 701 18th St. NW | performance. |
| A buffet lunch will | |
| be served | The World Trade Indicators (WTI) |
| | 2008 database and ranking tool |
| | allows benchmarking and comparisons |
| | of countries and customs territories |
| | across trade-related indicators and |
| | will help policymakers and |
| | researchers analyze the key |
| | at-the-border and behind-the-border |
| | factors affecting the trade |
| | peformance of countries and regions. |
| | Drawing from international databases |
| | and including some new measures of |
| | trade policy and performance, the |
| | user-friendly WTI database makes it |
| | possible?for the first time?to rank |
| | countries and compare their |
| | performance on all policy and |
| | institutional dimensions, namely |
| | trade policy, the external |
| | environment, institutions and |
| | business climate, and trade |
| | facilitation, that economists |
| | believe affect trade and export |
| | performance. |
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| | Trade briefs and Trade-at-a-Glance |
| | (TAAG) tables capture the main |
| | findings at the country level from |
| | the database and the analytical work |
| | of relevant international |
| | orgzanizations. The WTI 2008 |
| | publication summarizes patterns and |
| | trends in trade policies and |
| | institutions as well as trade |
| | outcomes revealed by the database |
| | across countries, regions and income |
| | groups. An extract from its |
| | Executive Summary is attached below. |
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| | The WTI website will be available on |
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CHAIR
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.
OPENING REMARKS
Ngozi N. Okonjo-Iweala
Managing Director, World Bank
From June to August 2006, she was Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Nigeria. From July 2003 to June 2006 she served as Minister of
Finance and Economy of Nigeria and Head of Nigeria's much acclaimed
Presidential Economic team. Previously, she pursued a 21-year career
as a development economist at the World Bank, where she held the
post of Vice President and Corporate Secretary. This included two
tours of duty working in the East Asia Region, the last tour as
Country Director Malaysia, Mongolia, Laos and Cambodia during the
East Asian financial crisis; two duty tours in the Middle East
Region, the last as Director, Operations (deputy vice-president) of
the region. Ms. Okonjo-Iweala also served as Director of
Institutional Change and Strategy. From 1989 to 1991 she was Special
assistant to the Senior Vice President, Operations. She has received
numerous awards, and is a member or chair of numerous boards and
advisory groups. Ms. Okonjo-Iweala was the founder of the first ever
indigenous opinion research organization in Nigeria (NOI Polls) in
partnership with the Gallup organization, which strives to
strengthen democracy and accountability in Nigeria. She was
co-founder of the Makeda Fund, a US$50 million private equity fund
designed to invest in women-owned and women-influenced small and
medium enterprises in Africa.
PRESENTERS
Roumeen Islam
Manager, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank
Institute
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
Since late 2002, Mr. Zanini has led the WBI?s trade team, working on
capacity building and external training programs in trade policy
reform and in the multilateral, regional, and bilateral trade
agreements and negotiations. He has more than 21 years experience
at the World Bank, first as a country economist and then as an
evaluator of the performance of adjustment operations and country
assistance programs. Prior to working at the World Bank, he taught
macroeconomics at the University of California, Davis, and worked as
business staff writer for some of Italy's major news magazines.
EXTERNAL DISCUSSANT(S)
To be confirmed
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About the InfoShop
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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
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organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
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(See attached file: Extract from the EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.doc)
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