"Transforming Government, Empowering Communities, and Building the Knowledge Economy" on Tuesday, January 15 at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop, Finance and Private Sector Development Unit, South Asia Region &
e-Development Thematic Group

invite you to a book launch and dissemination seminar:

Transforming Government, Empowering Communities, and Building the Knowledge
Economy

How should countries harness the ongoing ICT revolution to create new
development strategies and accelerate the development process? How can
developing countries take advantage of the opportunities for outsourcing and the
globalization of services? How can poor countries make access to ICT
affordable and sustainable to the majority of population? How can ICT be
deployed to transform government services and make public agencies more
client-centered? What kinds of innovation systems can promote the application of
ICT to serve local needs, rural areas and the poor? And what does it take to
build institutions to lead the movement towards ICT-enabled competitive
economies and inclusive information societies?

The two volumes respond to these challenges presenting a concrete case
study of how one country is bridging the gap between vision and actionable
programs. E-Sri Lanka is an integrated, client-driven program and the
first of its kind to be funded by the World Bank. It is about investing in
the necessary policies, institutions, capabilities, infrastructures, and
information technology applications for a poor country to join the global
knowledge economy, transform public services, and empower local
communities.

The event will also be available via live webcast:
http://www.worldbank.org/edevelopment/live

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building Auditorium J1 - 050
701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A reception will follow the presentation
*RSVP REQUIRED* Please email infoshopevents@worldbank.org

OPENING REMARKS BY
Praful Patel
Vice President, South Asia Region, World Bank

MODERATED BY
Simon Bell
Manager, Finance and Private Sector Development, South Asia, World Bank

PRESENTED BY
Nagy Hanna
Author; Senior Research Fellow at University of Maryland; former senior advisor
at World Bank

COMMENTS BY
Philippe Dongier
Manager, Communication and Information Technology Policy, Global ICT Department,
World Bank

Manju Haththotuwa
Former CEO of Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka;
Senior ICT Policy Specialist, World Bank

CONCLUDING REMARKS BY
Dhanendra Kumar
Executive Director, Bangladesh; Bhutan; India; and Sri Lanka, 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

(See attached file:
InfoShop-TransformingGovernment,EmpoweringCommunities,andBuildingtheKnowledgeEconomy.doc)

"Building Science, Technology, and Innovation Capacity in Rwanda" discussed in the InfoShop on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 12:00pm in J1-050

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Human Development Network, Education (HDNED)

invite you to a launch of recent World Bank publication
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| pic25058.jpg) | This book presents the methodology, policy |
| | conclusions, and detailed action plans that |
| | emerged from a World Bank science, |
| | technology, and innovation (STI) |
| | capacity-building program in Rwanda in |
| | 2006?07. This book illustrates that even an |
| | economy dominated by subsistence |
| | agriculture, such as Rwanda's, needs to |
| | develop STI capacity to address everyday |
| | issues such as providing energy and clean |
| | water to rural areas, and also for |
| | competing successfully in the global |
| | economy. |
| | |
| | This book provides new insights into the |
| | STI capacity-building process and shows |
| | that this process is not an activity solely |
| | for wealthy countries, but is, in fact, a |
| | necessity for poorer countries that want to |
| | improve their economy. The methodology |
| | presented can be used to help poor |
| | countries achieve the Millennium |
| | Development Goals and increase their |
| | competitiveness, while helping |
| | middle-income countries to compete on the |
| | basis of innovation and quality. |
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050

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OPENING REMARKS BY
Romian Murenzi
Minister of Science, Technology, Scientific Research and Information
Communication Technologies in Rwanda
Mr. Murenzi previously served as chair and professor in the
Department of Physics at Clark Atlanta University among his many
academic appointments and honors. He has held appointments as a
visiting professor, adjunct professor, and associate professor in
universities in Belgium, France, and the United States. Mr. Murenzi
was awarded a dozen major research grants and has published over
seventy articles and conference papers. He was recently nominated
the Vice President for TWAS, the academy of sciences for the
developing world, for Africa.

MODERATED BY
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, Ms. Phumaphi joined the World Health Organization as the
Assistant Director General for Family and Community Health
Department. She is a member of the UNDP advisory board for Africa.

DISCUSSED BY
Ruth Kagia
Diector, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Kagia, a Kenyan national, joined the Bank in August 1990 after a
career in public service in Africa spanning close to twenty years.
For the first six years at the Bank, she worked as an education
specialist in the Africa and the East Asia Regions. She has served
as a HD Sector Manager in the Africa region, a Director for Strategy
and Operations in the Human Development Network anchor, and an
Education Sector Director for Education, the position she currently
holds. In her current position, Ms. Kagia has provided strategic
oversight and coordination of the Bank's education sector staffing
and sector work program.

PRESENTED BY AUTHORS
Alfred Watkins
Science, Technology and innovation Coordinator, World Bank
Mr. Watkins is responsible for developing and helping implement the
World Bank?s global Science and Technology capacity building
program. He is currently piloting science and technology capacity
building programs in several countries in Africa. Prior to assuming
this assignment, Mr. Watkins helped to develop the World Bank?s
Science and Technology program in the former Soviet Union and
produced Science and Technology policy notes and project proposals
in Kazakhstan, Latvia, and Russia.

Anubha Verma
Science, Technology and Innovation Specialist, World Bank
Ms. Verma is a consultant with the Science, Technology and
Innovation group at the World Bank. In her current assignment she is
working on science and technology capacity building programs in
Rwanda, Mauritius, Botswana. She has also held jobs in the
information technology sector in Bangalore, 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

"Adapting to the Changing Climate in the Bank on Climate Change" discussed in the InfoShop on Wednesday, January 9 at 3:30pm in Preston Auditorium

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& Sustainable Development in East Asia & Pacific

*ADDITIONAL PANELIST* Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development

Adapting to the Changing Climate in the Bank on Climate Change

Curious about the buzz surrounding climate change talk? Just can?t get away from
it, can you? Wondering what all the talk on climate change impact, mitigation,
and adaptation means?

If you have pondered over these issues then you are invited to come hear
Professor Robert Mendelsohn from Yale University, who will share his thoughts on
climate change impacts and adaptation. He is a leading authority on the
economics of climate change and policy. Over the last decade, he has developed
insightful techniques for measuring the impacts from climate change that capture
adaptation. Results of his research have been used to calibrate global impact
models that predict the consequences of various climate scenarios. This research
finds that climate change will hit low latitude countries especially hard but
the net harmful effects of climate change will only become evident in the second
half of this century.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
3:30 - 5:15 pm
Due to high demand, please arrive 10 minutes early. The event will start
promptly at 3:30pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium JB1-080

Please RSVP TO infoShopevents@worldbank.org

PRESENTED BY
Robert Mendelsohn
Professor of Economics, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale
University
Mr. Mendelsohn holds dual appointments at the Yale School of Forestry and
Environmental Sciences, and the Yale School of Management. His area of interest
is resource economics, with special emphasis in valuing the environment. Over
the last decade, he has been involved in measuring the impacts from climate
change. Mr. Mendelsohn has also worked on valuing natural ecosystems, from
valuing nontimber forest products and ecotourism in tropical rainforests, to
coral reefs in the Caribbean and Australia, to measuring recreation in the
Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

DISCUSSED BY
Nancy Birdsall
President, Center for Global Development
Ms. Birdsall is the founding president of the Center for Global Development.
Prior to launching the center, Ms. Birdsall served for three years as Senior
Associate and Director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace. Her work at Carnegie focused on issues of globalization
and inequality, as well as on the reform of the international financial
institutions. From 1993 to 1998, Ms. Birdsall was Executive Vice-President of
the Inter-American Development Bank, the largest of the regional development
banks. Before joining the IDB, Ms. Birdsall spent 14 years in research, policy,
and management positions at the World Bank, most recently as Director of the
Policy Research Department.

Shanta Devarajan
Chief Economist, South Asia Region, World Bank
Mr. Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank?s South Asia Region, and
also maintains a popular web blog open to public opinion:
"http://endpovertyinsouthasia.worldbank.org/". Since joining the World Bank in
1991, he has been a Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public
Economics in the Development Research Group, as well as the Chief Economist of
the Human Development Network. He was the Director of the World Development
Report 2004, Making Services Work for Poor People. Before 1991, he was on the
faculty of Harvard University?s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Shantayanan Devarajan's research covers public economics, trade policy, natural
resources and the environment, and general-equilibrium modeling of developing
countries.

Homi Kharas
Senior Fellow, Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings Institution
Mr. Kharas is a Senior Fellow at the Wolfensohn Center for Development at
Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. He is a member of the Working Group
for the Commission on Growth and Development, chaired by Michael Spence.
Previously, Mr. Kharas served as Chief Economist for the World Bank?s East Asia
and Pacific region, and as Director for Poverty Reduction and Economic
Management, Finance and Private Sector Development, responsible for the Bank?s
advice on structural and economic policies, fiscal issues, debt, trade,
governance and financial markets. In 1990-91, he was a Senior Partner with Jeff
Sachs and Associates, advising governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet
Union on transition. His research interests are now focused on global trends,
East Asian growth and development, and international aid for the poorest
countries.

MODERATED BY
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist, World Bank
Prior to joining the East Asia and Pacific Sustainable Development Department of
the Bank, Mr. Sanghi worked on development topics ranging from infrastructure
and climate change to microfinance and agricultural economics. He has also
worked in private sector consulting, for the Thailand Development Research
Institute, a non-profit think-tank, and has held teaching and research positions
at the University of Chicago, Thammasat University in Bangkok, and Yale
University. His research has focused on the economic impact of global warming in
Brazil and 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

"Transforming Government, Empowering Communities, and Building the Knowledge Economy" on Tuesday, January 15 at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop events are now available for the learning catalog, please register on
the following link:

http://lms.worldbank.org/topclass/tce730iis.dll?Plugin-catreg-enroll-1620376

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Finance and Private Sector Development Unit, South Asia Region
&
e-Development Thematic Group

invite you to a book launch and dissemination seminar of two volumes
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| ) | How should countries harness the ongoing ICT |
| | revolution to create new development strategies |
| (Embedded | and accelerate the development process? How can |
| image moved | developing countries take advantage of the |
| to file: | opportunities for outsourcing and the |
| pic18703.jpg | globalization of services? How can poor |
| ) | countries make access to ICT affordable and |
| | sustainable to the majority of population? How |
| | can ICT be deployed to transform government |
| | services and make public agencies more |
| | client-centered? What kinds of innovation systems |
| | can promote the application of ICT to serve local |
| | needs, rural areas and the poor? And what does |
| | it take to build institutions to lead the |
| | movement towards ICT-enabled competitive |
| | economies and inclusive information societies? |
| | |
| | The two volumes respond to these challenges |
| | presenting a concrete case study of how one |
| | country is bridging the gap between vision and |
| | actionable programs. E-Sri Lanka is an |
| | integrated, client-driven program and the first |
| | of its kind to be funded by the World Bank. It is |
| | about investing in the necessary policies, |
| | institutions, capabilities, infrastructures, and |
| | information technology applications for a poor |
| | country to join the global knowledge economy, |
| | transform public services, and empower local |
| | communities. |
| | |
| | The event will also be available via live |
| | webcast: |
| |

http://www.worldbank.org/edevelopment/live

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building Auditorium J1 - 050
701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A reception will follow the presentation

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

OPENING REMARKS BY
Praful Patel
Vice President, South Asia Region, World Bank

MODERATED BY
Simon Bell
Manager, Finance and Private Sector Development, South Asia, World Bank

PRESENTED BY
Nagy Hanna
Author; Senior Research Fellow at University of Maryland; former senior advisor
at World Bank

COMMENTS BY
Philippe Dongier
Manager, Communication and Information Technology Policy, Global ICT Department,
World Bank

Manju Haththotuwa
Former CEO of Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri
Lanka; Senior ICT Policy Specialist, World Bank

CONCLUDING REMARKS BY
Dhanendra Kumar
Executive Director, Bangladesh; Bhutan; India; and Sri Lanka, 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 TIME AND VENUE: "Adapting to the Changing Climate in the Bank on Climate Change" discussed in the InfoShop on Wednesday, January 9 at 3:30pm in Preston Auditorium

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*ADDITIONAL PANELIST* Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development
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| | |
| | Curious about the buzz surrounding |
| | climate change talk? Just can?t get away |
| | from it, can you? Wondering what all the |
| | talk on climate change impact, |
| | mitigation, and adaptation means? |
| | |
| | If you have pondered over these issues |
| | then you are invited to come hear |
| | Professor Robert Mendelsohn from Yale |
| | University, who will share his thoughts |
| | on climate change impacts and adaptation. |
| | He is a leading authority on the |
| | economics of climate change and policy. |
| | Over the last decade, he has developed |
| | insightful techniques for measuring the |
| | impacts from climate change that capture |
| | adaptation. Results of his research have |
| | been used to calibrate global impact |
| | models that predict the consequences of |
| | various climate scenarios. This research |
| | finds that climate change will hit low |
| | latitude countries especially hard but |
| | the net harmful effects of climate change |
| | will only become evident in the second |
| | half of this century. |
| | |
| | |
|--------------------+---------------------------------------------|

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
3:30 - 5:15 pm
Due to high demand, please arrive 10 minutes early. The event will
start promptly at 3:30pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium JB1-080

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

PRESENTED BY
Robert Mendelsohn
Professor of Economics, School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies, Yale University
Mr. Mendelsohn holds dual appointments at the Yale School of
Forestry and Environmental Sciences, and the Yale School of
Management. His area of interest is resource economics, with special
emphasis in valuing the environment. Over the last decade, he has
been involved in measuring the impacts from climate change. Mr.
Mendelsohn has also worked on valuing natural ecosystems, from
valuing nontimber forest products and ecotourism in tropical
rainforests, to coral reefs in the Caribbean and Australia, to
measuring recreation in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

DISCUSSED BY
Nancy Birdsall
President, Center for Global Development
Ms. Birdsall is the founding president of the Center for Global
Development. Prior to launching the center, Ms. Birdsall served for
three years as Senior Associate and Director of the Economic Reform
Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her work
at Carnegie focused on issues of globalization and inequality, as
well as on the reform of the international financial institutions.
From 1993 to 1998, Ms. Birdsall was Executive Vice-President of the
Inter-American Development Bank, the largest of the regional
development banks. Before joining the IDB, Ms. Birdsall spent 14
years in research, policy, and management positions at the World
Bank, most recently as Director of the Policy Research Department.

Shanta Devarajan
Chief Economist, South Asia Region, World Bank
Mr. Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank?s South Asia
Region, and also maintains a popular web blog open to public
opinion: "http://endpovertyinsouthasia.worldbank.org/". Since
joining the World Bank in 1991, he has been a Principal Economist
and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development
Research Group, as well as the Chief Economist of the Human
Development Network. He was the Director of the World Development
Report 2004, Making Services Work for Poor People. Before 1991, he
was on the faculty of Harvard University?s John F. Kennedy School of
Government. Shantayanan Devarajan's research covers public
economics, trade policy, natural resources and the environment, and
general-equilibrium modeling of developing countries.

Homi Kharas
Senior Fellow, Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings
Institution
Mr. Kharas is a Senior Fellow at the Wolfensohn Center for
Development at Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. He is a
member of the Working Group for the Commission on Growth and
Development, chaired by Michael Spence. Previously, Mr. Kharas
served as Chief Economist for the World Bank?s East Asia and Pacific
region, and as Director for Poverty Reduction and Economic
Management, Finance and Private Sector Development, responsible for
the Bank?s advice on structural and economic policies, fiscal
issues, debt, trade, governance and financial markets. In 1990-91,
he was a Senior Partner with Jeff Sachs and Associates, advising
governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union on transition.
His research interests are now focused on global trends, East Asian
growth and development, and international aid for the poorest
countries.

MODERATED BY
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist, World Bank
Prior to joining the East Asia and Pacific Sustainable Development
Department of the Bank, Mr. Sanghi worked on development topics
ranging from infrastructure and climate change to microfinance and
agricultural economics. He has also worked in private sector
consulting, for the Thailand Development Research Institute, a
non-profit think-tank, and has held teaching and research positions
at the University of Chicago, Thammasat University in Bangkok, and
Yale University. His research has focused on the economic impact of
global warming in Brazil and 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

"Building Inclusive Financial Systems" discussed on Wednesday, January 16 at 4:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop and Brookings Intitution Press Invite you to a book launch

Building Inclusive Financial Systems:
A Framework for Financial Access
Michael Barr, Anjali Kumar, and Robert E. Litan
Editors

Broad-based and inclusive financial systems can significantly aid financial
development, reduce poverty, and expand economic opportunity in developing
countries. Poor households and individuals often have difficulty obtaining
financial services for a multitude of reasons, including transaction costs,
perceived risk, inadequate legal and financial infrastructure, and information
barriers. Yet many financial institutions have begun making profitable inroads
into these underserved markets through the continuing expansion of financial
access and microfinance.

Building Inclusive Financial Systems offers an indispensable guide for
governments and the private sector to increase access effectively and
responsibly. Panelists will share their experience and views on new directions
in work in the area of financial access, building upon and extending themes in
the book.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Presentation: 4:00-5.15 pm; Reception: 5.15 to 6.00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org

MODERATED BY
Elizabeth Littlefield
Director, World Bank and CEO of CGAP
Ms. Littlefield comes to CGAP from the investment bank JP Morgan, where she was
the Managing Director in charge of JP Morgan?s Emerging Markets Capital Markets.
As such, she was responsible for Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, Central
Asia, Middle East and Africa until leaving to join CGAP.

PRESENTED BY
Anjali Kumar
Adviser, Financial and Private Sector Development VP, World Bank
Ms. Kumar is an Adviser in the Financial and Private Sector vice presidency,
currently leading a unit engaged in building world wide indicators on financial
access. Her previous responsibilities included Lead Financial Economist, Latin
American region and Principal Economist, East Asian region. Her prior country
experience span the European region, the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. She
has been a consultant to the Ministry of Industry, Government of India, and held
a Fellowship at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.

Marilou Uy
Sector Director, Africa Finance and Private Sector Development Department, World
Bank
Ms. Uy is the Sector Director for the Africa Finance and Private Sector
Development Department at the World Bank. Previously, she served as Director of
the Financial Sector Operations and Policy Department in the Financial Sector
Vice-Presidency (FSE) as well as Chair of the Financial Sector Board since
September 2002. Ms. Uy has worked on trade policy, investment climate, and
financial sector issues in various operational departments in Latin America,
Middle East, and South Asia.

Liliana Rojas-Soares
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Ms. Rojas-Soares is the Chair of the Latin American Shadow Financial Regulatory
Committee (CLAAF). She has served as Managing Director and Chief Economist for
Latin America at Deutsche Bank, as the Principal Advisor in the Office of Chief
Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, and as Deputy Chief of the
Capital Markets and Financial Studies Division of the Research Department at the
International Monetary Fund.

Peer Stein
Manager of Financial Infrastructure & Institution Building, International
Finance Corporation
Mr. Stein is overseeing and supporting IFC?s technical assistance and advisory
services in financial markets world-wide, including SME banking, housing
finance, microfinance, leasing, securities markets and energy efficiency
finance. Further, he is leading IFC?s and the World Bank?s advisory work in
financial infrastructure, specifically supporting the development of credit
bureaus to support greater access to finance in developing and emerging markets
as well as managing the World Bank?s Payment Systems Development Group.

Hanns-Martin Hagen
Vice President, KfW Bankengruppe
Mr. Hagen is Vice President of the unit for Financial and Private Sector
Development, Europe/Caucasus. Mr. Hagen is responsible for the development of
equity and debt instruments adapted to the needs of microfinance institutions
and local banks in developing and transitions countries. Prior to his current
position Mr. Hagen served as Senior Project Manager in the Asia and Pacific
Department (1999-2002) which followed a posting as Capital Markets Analyst in
KfW's treasury department (1997-1999). Prior to joining KfW he worked with
Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt (Germany) and Duisburg (Germany) where he received
his training.

Michael Barr
Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Mr. Barr is a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in
Washington, D.C. He conducts large-scale empirical research on low- and
moderate-income households, including as the Principal Investigator for the
Detroit Area Household Financial Services Study at the Survey Research Center of
the University of Michigan and as a key researcher for the FDIC?s study of bank
services for LMI households. Mr. Barr previously served as Treasury Secretary
Robert E. Rubin?s Special Assistant, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Community Development Policy, and as Special Advisor to President
William J. Clinton.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Russia's Capitalist Revolution" on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop & Peterson Institute for International Economics
invite you to a presentation of the book

"Russia's Capitalist Revolution"
The Russian revolution, collapse of the Soviet Union, and Russia's ensuing
transformation belong to the greatest dramas of our time. Revolutions are
usually messy and emotional affairs, challenging much of the conventional
wisdom, and Russia's experience is no exception. This book focuses on the
transformation from Soviet Russia to Russia as a market economy, and explores
why the country has failed to transform into a democracy. It examines the period
from 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev became the Soviet Union's Secretary General of
the Communist Party, to the present Russia of Vladimir Putin. Mr. Åslund
provides a broad overview of Russia's economic change, highlighting the most
important issues and their subsequent resolutions, including Russia's inability
to sort out the ruble zone during its revolution, several failed coups, and the
financial crash of August 1998.

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Anders Åslund has done for the collapse of Russian communism what E. H. Carr did
for the Bolshevik Revolution.
Simon Johnson, Director, Research Department, International Monetary Fund

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
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OPENING REMARKS BY
Pradeep Mitra
Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank
Mr. Mitra is the World Bank?s Chief Economist for Europe and Central Asia, a
region which includes the countries of Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union,
and Turkey. He was Chief of Country Operations for Russia during the
mid-nineties and then served as Director in charge of the Bank?s economists
working on poverty reduction, economic management and public sector
institutional reform in the Europe and Central Asia region. He has published
widely in public economics, macroeconomics and development economics, including
Transition: The First Ten Years, Analysis and Lessons for Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union.

MODERATED BY
Branko Milanovic
Lead Economist, Development Economics, World Bank
Mr. Milanovic is a lead economist in the World Bank's research department,
where he has been working on the topics of income inequality and globalization.
Previously, he was a World Bank country economist for Poland and a research
fellow at the Institute of Economic Sciences in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Since
1996, Milanovic has also served as a visiting professor teaching the economics
of transition at the Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced
International Studies. Morevoer, Mr. Milanovic has served as a senior associate
on a two-year assignment with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's
Global Policy Program, and he focused his research on globalization and world
income distribution, as well as the interaction between politics, reform, and
inequality in transition countries.

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Anders Åslund
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Mr. Åslund, known to repeatedly challenge conventional wisdom on ?transition
economies,? is a leading specialist on postcommunist economic transformation
with more than 30 years of experience in the field. He boldly predicted the fall
of the Soviet Union in his Gorbachev?s Struggle for Economic Reform (1989). In
Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc (2002) he
firmly stated that the only choice Russia had was market reform. In this new
book, he explains why Russia?s market reform succeeded and democracy building
failed. Before joining the Peterson Institute he was the director of the
Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
and he codirected the Carnegie Moscow Center?s project on Post-Soviet Economies.
Mr. Åslund has also worked as an economic adviser to the Russian government
(1991?94), to the Ukrainian government, and to the president of the Kyrgyz
Republic. He was founding director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition
Economics and professor at the Stockholm School of Economics (1989?94).

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