Invitation to Presentation: "Understanding the Arab World" on Monday, March 31st at 12:00 pm in JB1-080

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Human Resources Services Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness Group
(HRSLO)

invite you to a presentation
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| | Understanding the Arab World |
| | Oman's Unique Journey toward |
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| | Part of a five-part series |
| | initiated by HRSLO to promote a |
| | deeper understanding of Arab |
| | culture through knowledge sharing |
| | with World Bank Group staff . |
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| | Monday, March 31st, 2008 |
| | 12:00 - 2:00 pm |
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| | Auditorium JB1-080 |
| | World Bank J Building |
| | 701 18th Street NW |
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| | A reception will follow the |
| | presentation |
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| | For non Bank staff, please RSVP |
| | to infoshopevents@worldbank.org |
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PRESENTED BY
Linda Pappas Funsch
Adjunct Professor of History and Global Studies, Hood College
Ms. Funsch's career as Middle East specialist, lecturer, and author
involves extensive case study research and frequent travel
throughout much of the region. Currently teaching at Hood College
(Frederick, MD), she served with the Ford Foundation in both Beirut
and Cairo, initiating and overseeing development projects pertaining
to gender and family.

OPENING REMARKS BY
Iouri Bairatchnyi
Program Manager, Language and Culture Program, HRSLO
In his current position, Mr. Bairatchnyi introduced CultureActive, a
global cultural database that encourages World Bank staff to
increase awareness and knowledge for effective communications across
cultures. In his previous assignment as Senior Training Officer in
HR's Skills Development Division, he developed and designed an
innovative manual on Survival Russian for Business Travelers.

Rebiha Hacene-Djaballah
Lead Trainer, Arabic Language and Culture Program, HRSLO
Ms. Hacene-Djaballah is Lead Trainer of the Arabic Language and
Culture Program at HRSLO. She has taught French literature and
culture at Catholic University (Washington, DC).

MODERATED BY
Zoubida Allaoua
Sector Manager, Social and Economic Development Group, Middle East
and North Africa Region (MNA)
Ms. Allaoua started at the World Bank as a Young Professional in
1988. Since then, she has held various positions including
Economist in the Occidental/Central Africa department. As Sector
Manager in MNA, she is known for her tremendous understanding and
knowledge of the Region. She is also a well regarded manager,
encouraging her staff to take Arabic language and culture
training.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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:

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Invitation to Film Screening: "Magic Radio: The FM Revolution in Niger" on Thursday, April 3

The InfoShop and World Bank Institute

invite you to a film screening

MAGIC RADIO
The FM Revolution in Niger
written and directed by Luc Peter and Stéphanie Barbey

In Niger, where more than 80% of the population is illiterate, radio is the main
means of mass communication. Simple yet reliable, the radio is everywhere?in
the streets, homes, and the bush. It entertains, educates, informs, and helps
provide a check on power. Today, through the radio waves, the citizens of Niger
seize the microphone and taste democracy. It is revolution FM.

Screened in French with English subtitles
Click here for more about radio's impact on capacity development in Niger

Thursday, April 3, 2008
12:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
(701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

For non Bank staff, please RSVP by sending an email to
infoshopevents@worldbank.org

DISCUSSED BY
Mark Nelson
Program Manager, World Bank Institute
Mr. Nelson is program leader for governance diagnostics work at the World Bank
Institute. Before his current position, he was team leader of WBI?s European
office, where he focused on governance issues, including the role of the media
and other external accountability institutions in fostering good governance and
development. From 1985 through 1996, Mr. Nelson was European diplomatic
correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, where he covered the negotiations
leading to the Maastricht Treaty, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of
the Soviet Union and the war in Bosnia. From 1992 to 1993, he was a senior
associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he
co-directed a major study on U.S.-European relations and wrote extensively on
the Bosnian war and other subjects for newspapers and scholarly journals.

Kreszentia Duer
New Business Development Leader, World Bank Institute
Ms. Duer manages the World Bank Institute?s technical assistance program to
strengthen policies, institutions, and capacities for Civic Engagement,
Empowerment, and Respect for Diversity (CEERD) in developing countries. Her
thirty years of experience in the World Bank includes leadership and management
of country and sector programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern
Europe, in community driven development, rural and urban development, and
environment; and innovation in cultural industries and intellectual property
rights, education, governance and accountability, broadcasting policy and
telecommunications. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal,
Policy Sciences; co-editor of Promoting Social Cohesion through Education (World
Bank, 2006), and co-author of Broadcasting, Voice and Accountability: A Public
Interest Approach to Policy, Law and Regulation (World Bank, 2008).

Ajay Tejasvi
Program Coordinator, World Bank Institute
Mr. Tejasvi works at the World Bank Institute's Capacity Development Resource
Center and is involved in a variety of knowledge management and knowledge
generation efforts. He is co-author of the Capacity Development Brief on the FM
revolution in Niger and is involved in governance and capacity development
initiatives.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

Film Screening: "Magic Radio" on Thursday, April 3 at 12:00 pm in J1-050

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| MAGIC RADIO |
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| and Stéphanie Barbey |
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| In Niger, where more than 80% of |
| the population is illiterate, radio |
| is the main means of mass |
| communication. Simple yet |
| reliable, the radio is |
| everywhere?in the streets, homes, |
| and the bush. It entertains, |
| educates, informs, and helps |
| provide a check on power. Today, |
| through the radio waves, the |
| citizens of Niger seize the |
| microphone and taste democracy. It |
| is revolution FM. |
| |
| Screened in French with English |
| subtitles |
| Click here for more about radio's |
| impact on capacity development in |
| Niger |
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
12:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050

Note: This button will also add the event to your Lotus Notes calendar
For non Bank staff, please RSVP by sending an email to
infoshopevents@worldbank.org

DISCUSSED BY
Mark Nelson
Program Manager, World Bank Institute
Mr. Nelson is program leader for governance diagnostics work at the
World Bank Institute. Before his current position, he was team
leader of WBI?s European office, where he focused on governance
issues, including the role of the media and other external
accountability institutions in fostering good governance and
development. From 1985 through 1996, Mr. Nelson was European
diplomatic correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, where he
covered the negotiations leading to the Maastricht Treaty, the fall
of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the war in
Bosnia. From 1992 to 1993, he was a senior associate at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, where he co-directed a major
study on U.S.-European relations and wrote extensively on the
Bosnian war and other subjects for newspapers and scholarly
journals.

Kreszentia Duer
New Business Development Leader, World Bank Institute
Ms. Duer manages the World Bank Institute?s technical assistance
program to strengthen policies, institutions, and capacities for
Civic Engagement, Empowerment, and Respect for Diversity (CEERD) in
developing countries. Her thirty years of experience in the World
Bank includes leadership and management of country and sector
programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, in
community driven development, rural and urban development, and
environment; and innovation in cultural industries and intellectual
property rights, education, governance and accountability,
broadcasting policy and telecommunications. She is a member of the
Editorial Board of the journal, Policy Sciences; co-editor of
Promoting Social Cohesion through Education (World Bank, 2006), and
co-author of Broadcasting, Voice and Accountability: A Public
Interest Approach to Policy, Law and Regulation (World Bank, 2008).

Ajay Tejasvi
Program Coordinator, World Bank Institute
Mr. Tejasvi works at the World Bank Institute's Capacity Development
Resource Center and is involved in a variety of knowledge management
and knowledge generation efforts. He is co-author of the Capacity
Development Brief on the FM revolution in Niger and is involved in
governance and capacity development initiatives.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: Panel Discussion on Migration on Wednesday, March 19 at 2:00 pm in Preston Auditorium, WB

InfoShop, Development Prospects Group (DECPG) and Migration Working Group

Invite you to

A Panel Discussion on
The Role of Migration in Globalization
and Launch of the
Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008

A debate of migration experts will be organized on the occasion of the Factbook
launch.

The Factbook attempts to present the numbers and facts behind the stories of
international migration and remittances for all countries, regions and income
groups of the world.

For more information and to order the book please click here.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Preston Auditorium
World Bank Main Complex
Please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

CHAIR
Uri Dadush
Director, Development Prospects Group and International Trade Department, World
Bank
Mr. Dadush is the current chair of the World Bank' Migration Working Group. Mr.
Dadush heads the Development Prospects Group which is responsible for
monitoring, analysis and projection of the world economy, global financial
markets and international migration and their implications for developing
countries. He is also Director of the International Trade Department of the
World Bank. Mr. Dadush was previously Chair of the Economic Policy Sector Board
and Director of Economic Policy. Prior to joining the World Bank in 1992, Mr.
Dadush was President of the Economist Intelligence Unit, part of The Economist
Group, from 1986 to 1992. He was Group Vice President, International, for Data
Resources, Inc., from 1982 -1986. He has also worked as a consultant with
McKinsey and Co. in Italy and Denmark.

PANELISTS
Demetrios Papademetriou
Co-founder and President, The Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
Mr. Papademetriou is co-founder and President of the Migration Policy Institute
(MPI), a Washington-based think tank dedicated exclusively to the study of
international migration. He is also the co-convener of the Transatlantic Task
Force on Immigration and Integration. Mr. Papademetriou also convenes the Athens
Migration Policy Initiative (AMPI), and is the Co-Founder and International
Chair Emeritus of Metropolis: An International Forum for Research and Policy on
Migration and Cities. Mr. Papademetriou has taught at the universities of
Maryland, Duke, American, and New School for Social Research. He has held a wide
range of senior policy and research positions that include: Chair of the
Migration Committee of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD); Director for Immigration Policy and Research at the U.S.
Department of Labor and Chair of the Secretary of Labor?s Immigration Policy
Task Force; and Executive Editor of the International Migration Review.

Jason DeParle
Senior writer at The New York Times
Mr. DeParle is a senior writer for The New York Times and a frequent contributor
to The New York Times Magazine. Mr. DeParle joined the New York Times in 1989
and has written extensively about poverty in America. He is the author of
American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation?s Drive to End Welfare
(Viking, 2004). For the past year, he has been writing about global migration
and its potential impact on development. He won a George Polk Award in 1999
for his reporting on the welfare system and was a two-time finalist for the
Pulitzer Prize.

Dilip Ratha
Senior Economist, Migration and Remittances Team, Development Prospects Group,
World Bank
Mr. Ratha's research reflects a deep interest in financing development in the
poor countries: leveraging remittances and migration for development; improving
country risk ratings; innovative financing mechanisms; future-flow
securitization and diaspora bonds; and South-South foreign direct investment.
Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked as a regional economist for Asia at
Credit Agricole Indosuez; as an assistant professor of economics at the Indian
Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; and as an economist at the Policy Group, New
Delhi. He has also worked as a visiting lecturer at the Indian Statistical
Institute, New Delhi and helped build a CGE model of the Indian economy.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: Panel Discussion on Migration on Wednesday, March 19 at 2:00 pm in Preston

*Please click here for recent NYT article on author*

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Development Prospects Group (DECPG)
and
Migration Working Group

Invite you to

A Panel Discussion on
The Role of Migration in Globalization
and
Launch of the
Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008
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| (Embedded image | A debate of migration experts will be |
| moved to file: | organized on the occasion of the Factbook |
| pic10383.jpg) | launch. |
| | |
| | The Factbook attempts to present the |
| | numbers and facts behind the stories of |
| | international migration and remittances |
| | for all countries, regions and income |
| | groups of the world. |
| | |
| | For more information and to order the |
| | book please click here. |
| | |
| | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 |
| | 2:00 - 4:00 pm |
| | Preston Auditorium |
| | World Bank Main Complex |
| | |
| | For non Bank staff, please RSVP to |
| | infoshopevents@worldbank.org |
| | |
| | |
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CHAIR
Uri Dadush
Director, Development Prospects Group and International Trade
Department, World Bank
Mr. Dadush is the current chair of the World Bank' Migration Working
Group. Mr. Dadush heads the Development Prospects Group which is
responsible for monitoring, analysis and projection of the world
economy, global financial markets and international migration and
their implications for developing countries. He is also Director of
the International Trade Department of the World Bank. Mr. Dadush was
previously Chair of the Economic Policy Sector Board and Director of
Economic Policy. Prior to joining the World Bank in 1992, Mr.
Dadush was President of the Economist Intelligence Unit, part of The
Economist Group, from 1986 to 1992. He was Group Vice President,
International, for Data Resources, Inc., from 1982 -1986. He has
also worked as a consultant with McKinsey and Co. in Italy and
Denmark.

PANELISTS
Demetrios Papademetriou
Co-founder and President, The Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
Mr. Papademetriou is co-founder and President of the Migration
Policy Institute (MPI), a Washington-based think tank dedicated
exclusively to the study of international migration. He is also the
co-convener of the Transatlantic Task Force on Immigration and
Integration. Mr. Papademetriou also convenes the Athens Migration
Policy Initiative (AMPI), and is the Co-Founder and International
Chair Emeritus of Metropolis: An International Forum for Research
and Policy on Migration and Cities. Mr. Papademetriou has taught at
the universities of Maryland, Duke, American, and New School for
Social Research. He has held a wide range of senior policy and
research positions that include: Chair of the Migration Committee of
the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD); Director for Immigration Policy and Research at
the U.S. Department of Labor and Chair of the Secretary of Labor?s
Immigration Policy Task Force; and Executive Editor of the
International Migration Review.

Jason DeParle
Senior writer at The New York Times
Mr. DeParle is a senior writer for The New York Times and a frequent
contributor to The New York Times Magazine. Mr. DeParle joined the
New York Times in 1989 and has written extensively about poverty in
America. He is the author of American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids,
and a Nation?s Drive to End Welfare (Viking, 2004). For the past
year, he has been writing about global migration and its potential
impact on development. He won a George Polk Award in 1999 for
his reporting on the welfare system and was a two-time finalist for
the Pulitzer Prize.

Dilip Ratha
Senior Economist, Migration and Remittances Team, Development
Prospects Group, World Bank
Mr. Ratha's research reflects a deep interest in financing
development in the poor countries: leveraging remittances and
migration for development; improving country risk ratings;
innovative financing mechanisms; future-flow securitization and
diaspora bonds; and South-South foreign direct investment. Prior to
joining the World Bank, he worked as a regional economist for Asia
at Credit Agricole Indosuez; as an assistant professor of economics
at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; and as an
economist at the Policy Group, New Delhi. He has also worked as a
visiting lecturer at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi and
helped build a CGE model of the Indian economy.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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