PANEL DISCUSSION: "Services Trade Reform and International Negotiations" on Friday, April 18 at noon in J1-050

World Bank Public Information Center/InfoShop & World Bank Institute - Trade
Unit

invite you to a panel discussion followed by a lunch reception

Services Trade Reform and International Negotiations

A panel of policymakers, analysts, and advisors will debate the status,
prospects, and economic implications of ?Services Trade Reform and International
Negotiations, " in occasion of the launch of the "Handbook of International
Trade in Services," an Oxford University Press publication.

International trade in services is becoming increasingly important to developing
countries. Exports of services, including in new areas, are contributing to
the growth of many developing countries, while the provision of efficient
services has become pivotal to the competitiveness of their merchandise exports.
Services trade is also an area where much opening is happening through
unilateral reforms and in bilateral negotiations, but not in multilateral or
regional negotiations. The new publication provides a comprehensive treatment of
the development implications of trade in services and how to maximize the
benefits and minimize the flaws of reform programs. Such flaws may include
failure to recognize the importance of sound and appropriate prudential
regulation, increased competition, and policies to ensure greater services
access for the poor.

Friday, April 18, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building
Auditorium J1-050
701 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC

*RSVP REQUIRED* Please send an email to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

CHAIRED BY
Roumeen Islam
Manager, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit, World Bank Institute

PRESENTATIONS BY
Gianni Zanini
Lead Economist and WBIPR Trade Program Leader, World Bank Institute

Aaditya Mattoo
Lead Economist, Development Research Group (DECRG), World Bank

DISCUSSION BY
Christine Bliss
Assistant USTR for Services and Investment, United States Trade Representative
(USTR)

Mario Marconini (Via video conference from Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Managing Director, ManattJones Marconini (Former Foreign Trade Secretary of
Brazil)

Dominique Njinkeu
Executive Director, International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty (ILEAP)

CONCLUDING REMARKS BY
Uri Dadush
Director, International Trade Department and Development Prospects Group, 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

PANEL DISCUSSION: "Services Trade Reform and International Negotiations" on Friday, April 18 at noon in J1-050

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& WBI - Trade Unit

invite you to a panel discussion followed by a lunch reception
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| | A panel of policymakers, analysts, and |
| | advisors will debate the status, |
| Friday, April 18, | prospects, and economic implications |
| 2008 | of ?Services Trade Reform and |
| 12:00 - 2:00 pm | International Negotiations, " in |
| World Bank J | occasion of the launch of the |
| Building | "Handbook of International Trade in |
| Auditorium J1-050 | Services," an Oxford University Press |
| 701 18th Street, NW | publication. |
| Washington, DC | |
| | International trade in services is |
| | becoming increasingly important to |
| | developing countries. Exports of |
| | services, including in new areas, are |
| | contributing to the growth of many |
| | developing countries, while the |
| | provision of efficient services has |
| | become pivotal to the competitiveness |
| | of their merchandise exports. |
| | Services trade is also an area where |
| | much opening is happening through |
| | unilateral reforms and in bilateral |
| | negotiations, but not in multilateral |
| | or regional negotiations. The new |
| | publication provides a comprehensive |
| | treatment of the development |
| | implications of trade in services and |
| | how to maximize the benefits and |
| | minimize the flaws of reform programs. |
| | Such flaws may include failure to |
| | recognize the importance of sound and |
| | appropriate prudential regulation, |
| | increased competition, and policies to |
| | ensure greater services access for the |
| | poor. |
| | |
| | For more information about the book or |
| | to order it online, please click here. |
| | |
| | |
| | |
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CHAIRED BY
Roumeen Islam
Manager, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit, World Bank
Institute

PRESENTATIONS BY
Gianni Zanini
Lead Economist and WBIPR Trade Program Leader, World Bank Institute

Aaditya Mattoo
Lead Economist, Development Research Group (DECRG), World Bank

DISCUSSION BY
Christine Bliss
Assistant USTR for Services and Investment, United States Trade
Representative (USTR)

Mario Marconini (Via video conference from Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Managing Director, ManattJones Marconini (Former Foreign Trade Secretary of
Brazil)

Dominique Njinkeu
Executive Director, International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty (ILEAP)

CONCLUDING REMARKS BY
Uri Dadush
Director, International Trade Department and Development Prospects
Group, 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

REMINDER: "The Practice of Fiscal Federalism" on Monday, April 14 at 12:00 pm

InfoShop/World Bank Publication Information Center & The World Bank Institute
Poverty Reduction & Economic Management Division

INVITE YOU TO A LAUNCH OF A RECENT McGILL-QUEENS PRESS PUBLICATION

CHAIRED BY
Justin Yifu Lin
Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Research Economics, World
Bank

PRESENTED BY EDITOR
Anwar Shah
Lead economist and Program Leader, Public Sector Governance, World Bank
Institute
Executive Board Member, International Institute of Public Finance
Fellow, The Institute for Public Economics

COMMENTS BY
Teresa Ter-Minassian
Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund

Monday, April 14, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
Auditorium J1-050
World Bank J Building
701 18th Street NW

*RSVP REQUIRED* Please send an email to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

The Practice of Fiscal Federalism
Comparative Perspectives

A Global Dialogue on Federalism Volume #4
edited by Anwar Shah

A comparative analysis of shifting fiscal powers in twelve federal countries

Leading scholars and practitioners examine constitutional design and taxing,
spending, and regulatory responsibilities at the federal, state/provincial, and
local/municipal levels in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Malaysia,
Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. This
volume also explores the effects of intergovernmental fiscal relations on
securing economic unions and improving social welfare.

Contributors provide a fascinating account of how federal countries are
confronting the traditional challenges of conflicts over division of fiscal
powers while also coping with emerging challenges of globalization and citizen
empowerment arising from the information revolution. They analyze how
relationships and roles of different orders of government are being reshaped and
show how local solutions inspired by global principles help strengthen
government accountability and improve the quality of life for citizens.

For more information about the book and to order it, please click here.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: "The Practice of Fiscal Federalism" on Monday, April 14 at 12:00 pm

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&
The World Bank Institute Poverty Reduction & Economic Management
Division

INVITE YOU TO A LAUNCH OF A RECENT McGILL-QUEENS PRESS PUBLICATION

CHAIRED BY
Justin Yifu Lin
Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Research Economics, World
Bank

PRESENTED BY EDITOR
Anwar Shah
Lead economist and Program Leader, Public Sector Governance, World
Bank Institute
Executive Board Member, International Institute of Public Finance
Fellow, The Institute for Public Economics

COMMENTS BY
Teresa Ter-Minassian
Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund
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| Monday, April | |
| 14, 2008 | A Global Dialogue on Federalism Volume #4 |
| 12:00 - 2:00 pm | edited by Anwar Shah |
| Auditorium | |
| J1-050 | A comparative analysis of shifting fiscal |
| World Bank J | powers in twelve federal countries |
| Building | |
| 701 18th Street | Leading scholars and practitioners |
| NW | examine constitutional design and taxing, |
| | spending, and regulatory responsibilities |
| | at the federal, state/provincial, and |
| | local/municipal levels in Australia, |
| | Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Malaysia, |
| | Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Spain, |
| | Switzerland, and the United States. This |
| | volume also explores the effects of |
| | intergovernmental fiscal relations on |
| | securing economic unions and improving |
| | social welfare. |
| | |
| | Contributors provide a fascinating |
| | account of how federal countries are |
| | confronting the traditional challenges of |
| | conflicts over division of fiscal powers |
| | while also coping with emerging |
| | challenges of globalization and citizen |
| | empowerment arising from the information |
| | revolution. They analyze how |
| | relationships and roles of different |
| | orders of government are being reshaped |
| | and show how local solutions inspired by |
| | global principles help strengthen |
| | government accountability and improve the |
| | quality of life for citizens. |
| | |
| | For more information about the book and |
| | to order it, please click here. |
| | |
| | |
|--------------------+---------------------------------------------|

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

Strobe Talbott in the InfoShop on Tuesday, April 22 at 12:00 pm

InfoShop, World Bank Institute, and Brookings Institution

cordially invite you to a book launch of a recent Brookings Institution Press
publication

The Great Experiment
The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and The Quest for a Global Nation

This dramatic narrative of breathtaking scope and riveting focus puts the
"story" back into history. It is the saga of how the most ambitious of big ideas
-- that a world made up of many nations can govern itself peacefully -- has
played out over the millennia. Humankind's "Great Experiment" goes back to the
most ancient of days -- literally to the Garden of Eden -- and into the present,
with an eye to the future.

Offering an insider's view of how the world is governed today, Talbott
interweaves through this epic tale personal insights and experiences and takes
us with him behind the scenes and into the presence of world leaders as they
square off or cut deals with each other. As an acclaimed journalist, he covered
the standoff between the superpowers for more than two decades; as a high-level
diplomat, he was in the thick of tumultuous events in the 1990s, when the
bipolar equilibrium gave way to chaos in the Balkans, the emergence of a new
breed of international terrorist, and America's assertiveness during its
"unipolar moment" -- which he sees as the latest, but not the last, stage in the
Great Experiment.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
Auditorium J1-050
World Bank J Building
701 18th Street NW

*RSVP REQUIRED* Please send an email to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

CHAIRED BY
Michele De Nevers
Senior Manager, Sustainable Development Vice-Presidency, World Bank
Ms. de Nevers is the Senior Manager for environment and climate change in the
Sustainable Development Vice-Presidency. She previously was Director of Sector
and Thematic Programs in WBI and has extensive experience in environment and
capacity development issues.

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Strobe Talbott
President, The Brookings Institution
Mr. Talbott, whose career spans journalism, government service, and academe, is
an expert on U.S. foreign policy, with specialties on Europe, Russia, South
Asia, and nuclear arms control. As deputy secretary of state in the Clinton
administration, Talbott was deeply involved in both the conduct of U.S. policy
abroad and the management of executive branch relations with Congress.

COMMENTS BY
John van Oudenaren
Director, World Digital Library Project, Library of Congress
Mr. Van Oudenaren directs a team drawn from various parts of the Library that
seeks assistance and advice from within the Library and from collaborating
institutions worldwide to develop a plan for a WDL. He has served as chief of
the Library's European Division since 1996 and he also heads the Library's
Global Gateway digital library project, which was launched in 2000. Prior to
joining the Library, he worked at the RAND Corporation, the U.S. Department of
State and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies.

Daniel Kaufmann
Director, Global Programs and Governance, World Bank Institute
Mr. Kaufmann has expertise in public sector reform, governance and
anti-corruption. He has also focused much work over the years and written
extensively on investment climate, corporate ethics and business development.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in
Washington, DC. The mission is to conduct high-quality, independent research
and, based on that research, to provide innovative, practical recommendations
that advance three broad goals: strengthen American democracy; foster the
economic and social welfare, security and opportunity of all Americans and
secure a more open, safe, prosperous and cooperative international system.
For more information, visit: www.brookings.edu

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

Strobe Talbott in the InfoShop on Tuesday, April 22 at 12:00 pm

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cordially invite you to a book launch of a recent Brookings Institution Press
publication
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| (Embedded image | |
| moved to file: | The Great Experiment |
| pic08867.jpg) | The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern |
| | States, and The Quest for a Global Nation |
| | |
| Tuesday, April | This dramatic narrative of breathtaking |
| 22, 2008 | scope and riveting focus puts the "story" |
| 12:00 - 2:00 pm | back into history. It is the saga of how |
| Auditorium | the most ambitious of big ideas -- that a |
| J1-050 | world made up of many nations can govern |
| World Bank J | itself peacefully -- has played out over |
| Building | the millennia. Humankind's "Great |
| 701 18th Street | Experiment" goes back to the most ancient |
| NW | of days -- literally to the Garden of |
| | Eden -- and into the present, with an eye |
| | to the future. |
| | |
| | Offering an insider's view of how the |
| | world is governed today, Talbott |
| | interweaves through this epic tale |
| | personal insights and experiences and |
| | takes us with him behind the scenes and |
| | into the presence of world leaders as |
| | they square off or cut deals with each |
| | other. As an acclaimed journalist, he |
| | covered the standoff between the |
| | superpowers for more than two decades; as |
| | a high-level diplomat, he was in the |
| | thick of tumultuous events in the 1990s, |
| | when the bipolar equilibrium gave way to |
| | chaos in the Balkans, the emergence of a |
| | new breed of international terrorist, and |
| | America's assertiveness during its |
| | "unipolar moment" -- which he sees as the |
| | latest, but not the last, stage in the |
| | Great Experiment. |
| | |
| | For more information about the book and |
| | to order it, please click here. |
| | |
| | |
|--------------------+---------------------------------------------|

CHAIRED BY
Michele De Nevers
Senior Manager, Sustainable Development Vice-Presidency, World Bank
Ms. de Nevers is the Senior Manager for environment and climate
change in the Sustainable Development Vice-Presidency. She
previously was Director of Sector and Thematic Programs in WBI and
has extensive experience in environment and capacity development
issues.

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Strobe Talbott
President, The Brookings Institution
Mr. Talbott, whose career spans journalism, government service, and
academe, is an expert on U.S. foreign policy, with specialties on
Europe, Russia, South Asia, and nuclear arms control. As deputy
secretary of state in the Clinton administration, Talbott was deeply
involved in both the conduct of U.S. policy abroad and the
management of executive branch relations with Congress.

COMMENTS BY
John van Oudenaren
Director, World Digital Library Project, Library of Congress
Mr. Van Oudenaren directs a team drawn from various parts of the
Library that seeks assistance and advice from within the Library and
from collaborating institutions worldwide to develop a plan for a
WDL. He has served as chief of the Library's European Division since
1996 and he also heads the Library's Global Gateway digital library
project, which was launched in 2000. Prior to joining the Library,
he worked at the RAND Corporation, the U.S. Department of State and
the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies.

Daniel Kaufmann
Director, Global Programs and Governance, World Bank Institute
Mr. Kaufmann has expertise in public sector reform, governance and
anti-corruption. He has also focused much work over the years and
written extensively on investment climate, corporate ethics and
business development.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization
based in Washington, DC. The mission is to conduct high-quality,
independent research and, based on that research, to provide
innovative, practical recommendations that advance three broad
goals: strengthen American democracy; foster the economic and social
welfare, security and opportunity of all Americans and secure a more
open, safe, prosperous and cooperative international system.
For more information, visit: www.brookings.edu

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

"Promoting Better Work in Global Supply Chains" on Friday, April 25 at 12:00 pm at the World Bank

InfoShop, ILO and IFC

Invite you to a Panel Discussion on

Promoting Better Work in Global Supply Chains
Better Work offers a fresh look at old problems by offering sustainable
solutions to the challenges of improving labour standards in global supply
chains. The programme provides hope for a more inclusive globalisation that
benefits all those involved with global supply chains.

The future rests with the collaboration of partners at the national level
together with international buyers. Only through broad-based engagement can we
find practical tools and solutions which are based on actual experience. We need
to measure what we do, identify what works and what doesn?t. Through this
process we will build support for change.

MODERATOR
Bruce Moats
Director of Corporate Relations, International Finance Corporations

PRESENTERS
Ros Harvey
Better Work Global Program Manager, ILO

COMMENTARY
Dottie Hatcher
Sourcing Guidelines Director, Gap Inc

Friday, April 25, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, J1-050
701 18th Street, NW
A reception will follow the presentation

For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Partnership for Better Work
IFC in partnership with International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the
Better Work Program in August 2006 with the goal of improving labor standards
and competitiveness in global supply chains. The program involves the
development of both global tools and country-level projects. It offers
sustainable solutions that build cooperation between government, employer and
worker organizations, and international buyers.
For more information, please visit: www.betterwork.org

About the International Labour Office (ILO)
The International Labour Office (ILO) is devoted to advancing opportunities for
women and men to obtain decent and productive work in conditions of freedom,
equity, security and human dignity. Its main aims are to promote rights at work,
encourage decent employment opportunities, enhance social protection and
strengthen dialogue in handling work-related issues. In promoting social justice
and internationally recognized human and labour rights, the organization
continues to pursue its founding mission that labour peace is essential to
prosperity. Today, the ILO helps advance the creation of decent jobs and the
kinds of economic and working conditions that give working people and business
people a stake in lasting peace, prosperity and progress.
For more information, please visit: www.ilo.org

About the International Finance Corporation (IFC)
The International Finance Corporation is a member of the World Bank Group. IFC
fosters sustainable economic growth in developing countries by financing private
sector investment, mobilizing capital in the international financial markets,
and providing advisory services to businesses and governments. IFC helps
companies and financial institutions in emerging markets create jobs, generate
tax revenues, improve corporate governance and environmental performance, and
contribute to their local communities. The goal is to improve lives, especially
for the people who most need the benefits of growth.
For more information, please visit: www.ifc.org

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: BetterWorkInvitation.doc)

"Promoting Better Work in Global Supply Chains" on Friday, April 25 at 12:00 pm in J1-050

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Invite you to a Panel Discussion on

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Promoting Better Work in Global Supply Chains
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| | |
| (Embedded image moved to file: | |
| pic30435.jpg) | Better Work offers a |
| | fresh look at old |
| | problems by offering |
| | sustainable solutions to |
| | the challenges of |
| | improving labour |
| | standards in global |
| | supply chains. The |
| | programme provides hope |
| | for a more inclusive |
| | globalisation that |
| | benefits all those |
| | involved with global |
| | supply chains. |
| | |
| | The future rests with the |
| | collaboration of partners |
| | at the national level |
| | together with |
| | international buyers. |
| | Only through broad-based |
| | engagement can we find |
| | practical tools and |
| | solutions which are based |
| | on actual experience. We |
| | need to measure what we |
| | do, identify what works |
| | and what doesn?t. Through |
| | this process we will |
| | build support for change. |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
|------------------------------------+-----------------------------|

MODERATOR
Bruce Moats
Director of Corporate Relations, International Finance Corporations

PRESENTERS
Ros Harvey
Better Work Global Program Manager, ILO

COMMENTARY
Dottie Hatcher
Sourcing Guidelines Director, Gap Inc

Friday, April 25, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, J1-050
701 18th Street, NW
A reception will follow the presentation

For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Partnership for Better Work
IFC in partnership with International Labour Organization (ILO)
launched the Better Work Program in August 2006 with the goal of
improving labor standards and competitiveness in global supply
chains. The program involves the development of both global tools
and country-level projects. It offers sustainable solutions that
build cooperation between government, employer and worker
organizations, and international buyers.
For more information, please visit: www.betterwork.org

About the International Labour Office (ILO)
The International Labour Office (ILO) is devoted to advancing
opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work
in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. Its
main aims are to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment
opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue in
handling work-related issues. In promoting social justice and
internationally recognized human and labour rights, the organization
continues to pursue its founding mission that labour peace is
essential to prosperity. Today, the ILO helps advance the creation
of decent jobs and the kinds of economic and working conditions that
give working people and business people a stake in lasting peace,
prosperity and progress.
For more information, please visit: www.ilo.org

About the International Finance Corporation (IFC)
The International Finance Corporation is a member of the World Bank
Group. IFC fosters sustainable economic growth in developing
countries by financing private sector investment, mobilizing capital
in the international financial markets, and providing advisory
services to businesses and governments. IFC helps companies and
financial institutions in emerging markets create jobs, generate tax
revenues, improve corporate governance and environmental
performance, and contribute to their local communities. The goal is
to improve lives, especially for the people who most need the
benefits of growth.
For more information, please visit: www.ifc.org

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 "Financing Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises through Financial Intermediaries" on Friday, April 11 at the International Finance Corporation

The Independent Evaluation Group & World Bank InfoShop

Invite you to a Panel Discussion and Launch of the IEG Study on

Financing Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises through Financial Intermediaries

FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2008
10 am - 12 pm
IFC Auditorium
International Finance Corporation
2121 Pennsylvania Avenue (Entrance on K Street)

Coffee and a light breakfast available from 9:30-10:00 am

Please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

EVENT DESCRIPTION
The Independent Evaluation Group brings together evaluators, financiers,
practitioners, and a microfinance bank to talk about micro, small, and medium
enterprises (MSMEs) in the developing world.

MSMEs constitute the bulk of the private sector in most developing countries and
can contribute significantly to economic growth, employment creation, and
poverty reduction. However, limited access to finance has often constrained
their development, particularly in frontier countries (high-risk or low-income).

Supporting MSMEs through financial intermediaries in these countries has been a
strategic priority for IFC. The current IEG study examines the effectiveness of
IFC's strategy.

For more information, please visit: http://www.ifc.org/ieg/MSME
Order a copy of the book at:
http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=8170485

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Vinod Thomas
Director General, Evaluation
Independent Evaluation Group, The World Bank Group
Mr. Thomas is the Director-General of the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) at
the World Bank Group. His previous positions include Country Director for
Brazil, Vice President of the World Bank Institute (WBI), and Chief Economist
for the World Bank in the East Asia and Pacific Region. In addition, he was the
staff Director for the 1991 World Development Report entitled The Challenge of
Development.

CHAIR
Marvin Taylor-Dormond
Director, Independent Evaluation Group-IFC
Mr. Taylor-Dormond is the Director of the Independent Evaluation Group at IFC
(IEG-IFC). Mr. Taylor-Dormond joined IEG-IFC after a successful career in the
Central American Bank of Economic Integration in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where he
held positions such as Controller (Independent Oversight and Evaluation
Authority), Executive Vice President and most recently, Chief Economist and
Chief Evaluation. He also served as Vice-Minister of Finance for the Republic of
Costa Rica, his native country.

PANELISTS
Amitava Banerjee
Manager, Independent Evaluation Group -IFC
Mr. Banerjee joined the World Bank Group in 1979 through the Young Professionals
Program. He has experience as an Investment Officer in Asia, Europe and the
Middle East, and in Advisory Services in the Pacific. In 1998, at the start of
the Asian crisis, he was appointed Regional Manager for Indonesia and Malaysia
and posted to Jakarta, Indonesia. He returned to Headquarters in 2002 as
Manager, Strategy and Coordination for the East Asia and Pacific Department.

James Scriven
Director, Global Financial Markets Group, IFC
Mr. Scriven is Director of Operations for Latin America and the Caribbean, and
Sub-Saharan Africa regions at IFC?s Global Financial Markets Department. He
joined IFC in April 2002 and was responsible for the restructuring efforts in
the Argentine financial sector. Since then, he has held several positions in the
Global Financial Markets Department prior to his current assignment.

Elizabeth Littlefield
Director, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)
Ms. Littlefield is one of the World Bank's senior spokespeople on microfinance.
She is the Chief Executive Officer of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor
(CGAP), a multi-donor organization created to help build a large-scale permanent
microfinance industry providing flexible, high-quality financial services on a
sustainable basis to the poor. Prior to joining CGAP in 1999, Ms. Littlefield
was the Managing Director in charge of J.P. Morgan's financing business in
Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, Central Asia, Middle East and Africa. She
has served on the executive board of several organizations, including Women's
World Banking, Profund, and Africa International Financial Holdings.

Carolina Velazco
Deputy Director, Strategic Planning, Banco Compartamos, Mexico
Ms. Velazco is the Deputy Director of Strategic Planning at Banco Compartamos, a
successful IFC client and a financial institution that provides microloans to
micro enterprises in Mexico. She has been working at Compartamos for over five
years with responsibilities in corporate relations and governance, coordinating
the transformation of Compartamos into a bank as part of its strategic planning
process. Ms. Velazco has previously worked in the Global Operations of Goldman
Sachs at México Casa de Bolsa.

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About IEG-IFC
The Independent Evaluation Group at IFC (IEG-IFC) independently evaluates IFC's
operations, including its investment activities and advisory services operations
with particular attention to accountability - IFC's achievement of its
objectives for private sector development, and learning - identification and
dissemination of lessons and findings that can be operationalized by IFC staff
and others involved or interested in sustainable private sector development.
For more information, visit: http://www.ifc.org/ieg

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 "Financing Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises through Financial Intermediaries" on Friday, April 11 at IFC Auditorium

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Invite you to

a Panel Discussion and Launch of the IEG Study on

Financing Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises through Financial Intermediaries

FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2008
10 am - 12 pm
IFC Auditorium
2121 Pennsylvania Avenue (Entrance on K Street)

Coffee and a light breakfast available from 9:30-10:00 am

For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org
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| financiers, practitioners, and a |
| microfinance bank to talk about |
| micro, small, and medium |
| enterprises (MSMEs) in the |
| developing world. |
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| MSMEs constitute the bulk of the |
| private sector in most developing |
| countries and can contribute |
| significantly to economic growth, |
| employment creation, and poverty |
| reduction. However, limited access |
| to finance has often constrained |
| their development, particularly in |
| frontier countries (high-risk or |
| low-income). |
| |
| Supporting MSMEs through financial |
| intermediaries in these countries |
| has been a strategic priority for |
| IFC. The current IEG study |
| examines the effectiveness of |
| IFC's strategy. |
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| For more information, please |
| visit: http://www.ifc.org/ieg/MSME

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| Order a copy of the book |
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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Vinod Thomas
Director General, Evaluation
Independent Evaluation Group, The World Bank Group
Mr. Thomas is the Director-General of the Independent Evaluation
Group (IEG) at the World Bank Group. His previous positions include
Country Director for Brazil, Vice President of the World Bank
Institute (WBI), and Chief Economist for the World Bank in the East
Asia and Pacific Region. In addition, he was the staff Director for
the 1991 World Development Report entitled The Challenge of
Development.

CHAIR
Marvin Taylor-Dormond
Director, Independent Evaluation Group-IFC
Mr. Taylor-Dormond is the Director of the Independent Evaluation
Group at IFC (IEG-IFC). Mr. Taylor-Dormond joined IEG-IFC after a
successful career in the Central American Bank of Economic
Integration in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where he held positions such
as Controller (Independent Oversight and Evaluation Authority),
Executive Vice President and most recently, Chief Economist and
Chief Evaluation. He also served as Vice-Minister of Finance for the
Republic of Costa Rica, his native country.

PRESENTER
Amitava Banerjee
Manager, Independent Evaluation Group -IFC
Mr. Banerjee joined the World Bank Group in 1979 through the Young
Professionals Program. He has experience as an Investment Officer
in Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and in Advisory Services in the
Pacific. In 1998, at the start of the Asian crisis, he was appointed
Regional Manager for Indonesia and Malaysia and posted to Jakarta,
Indonesia. He returned to Headquarters in 2002 as Manager, Strategy
and Coordination for the East Asia and Pacific Department.

PANELISTS
James Scriven
Director, Global Financial Markets Group, IFC
Mr. Scriven is Director of Operations for Latin America and the
Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa regions at IFC?s Global Financial
Markets Department. He joined IFC in April 2002 and was responsible
for the restructuring efforts in the Argentine financial sector.
Since then, he has held several positions in the Global Financial
Markets Department prior to his current assignment.

Elizabeth Littlefield
Director, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)
Ms. Littlefield is one of the World Bank's senior spokespeople on
microfinance. She is the Chief Executive Officer of the Consultative
Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a multi-donor organization created
to help build a large-scale permanent microfinance industry
providing flexible, high-quality financial services on a sustainable
basis to the poor. Prior to joining CGAP in 1999, Ms. Littlefield
was the Managing Director in charge of J.P. Morgan's financing
business in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, Central Asia,
Middle East and Africa. She has served on the executive board of
several organizations, including Women's World Banking, Profund, and
Africa International Financial Holdings.

Carolina Velazco
Deputy Director, Strategic Planning,
Banco Compartamos, Mexico
Ms. Velazco is the Deputy Director of Strategic Planning at Banco
Compartamos, a successful IFC client and a financial institution
that provides microloans to micro enterprises in Mexico. She has
been working at Compartamos for over five years with
responsibilities in corporate relations and governance, coordinating
the transformation of Compartamos into a bank as part of its
strategic planning process. Ms. Velazco has previously worked in the
Global Operations of Goldman Sachs at México Casa de Bolsa.
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About IEG
The Independent Evaluation Group at IFC (IEG-IFC) independently
evaluates IFC's operations, including its investment activities and
advisory services operations with particular attention to
accountability - IFC's achievement of its objectives for private
sector development, and learning - identification and dissemination
of lessons and findings that can be operationalized by IFC staff and
others involved or interested in sustainable private sector
development.
For more information, visit: http://www.ifc.org/ieg

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 IN VENUE! LUNCH CONVERSATION: "Spirit and Power: A 10-Country Survey of Pentecostals", Thursday, April 10, 2008, 12:30pm to 2:00pm in Room G8-099

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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

SEMINAR: "Growth Strategies and Urbanization," April 17, 2008 at the World Bank

The Commission on Growth and Development, World Bank Urban Development Unit, and
InfoShop

invite you to a half-day seminar on

Thursday, April 17, 2008
8:45 am - 12:30 pm

Preston Auditorium
World Bank Main Complex
1818 H Street NW

For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

Growth Strategies and Urbanization
Insights from the Commission on Growth and Development

Opening remarks by Danny Leipziger, Vice President and Head of Network, Poverty
Reduction and Economic Managment, The World Bank Group
Closing remarks by Graeme P. Wheeler, Managing Director, The World Bank
Group

Join Michael Spence, Nobel Laureate in Economics, and Chairman of the Commission
on Growth and Development, along with an eminent panel of commentators,
including:

Richard Arnott, Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of
California-Riverside
Augusto de la Torre, Chief Economist, Latin America and Caribbean Region,
World Bank
Gilles Duranton, Noranda Chair, Professor, Department of Economics,
University of Toronto
Richard Green, Professor of Real Estate, Finance and Economics, George
Washington University
Marja Hoek-Smit, Director, International Housing Finance Program, Wharton
School of Business
Sukkoo Kim, Associate Professor, University of Washington-St. Louis
Johannes Linn, Executive Director, Wolfensohn Center for Development, The
Brookings Institution
Mahmoud Mohieldin, Minister of Investment of Egypt
George Peterson, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute (ret.)
John Quigley, I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor, University of
California at Berkeley

to discuss the role of urbanization in growth strategies, based on ?state of
the art? papers covering the following topics:

Urban Productivity, Agglomeration Economies and Growth
Geography and Regional Inequality
Urban Labor Markets and Growth
Urban Housing Policies
Lessons from the U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis

Agenda: (See attached file: Agenda.doc)

About the Commission on Growth and Development
The Commission on Growth and Development was established in April 2006 as a
response to two insights. First, poverty cannot be reduced in isolation from
economic growth?an observation that has recently been overlooked in thinking and
strategies for development. Second, there is growing awareness that knowledge
about economic growth is much less definitive than commonly thought.
Consequently, the Commission?s mandate is to ?take stock of the state of
theoretical and empirical knowledge on economic growth with a view to drawing
implications for policy for the current and next generation of policy makers.?

To help explore the state of knowledge, the Commission invited leading academics
and policy makers from developing and industrialized countries to explore and
discuss economic issues it thought relevant for growth and development,
including controversial ideas. Thematic papers assessed knowledge in several
different areas, among them urbanization.

The thematic papers on Urbanization cover the following areas: Urban
Productivity, Agglomeration Economies and Growth (Gilles Duranton, John
Quigley), Geography and Regional Inequality (Sukkoo Kim, Tony Venables), Urban
Housing Subsidy Policies (Richard Arnott), and The U.S. Subprime Mortgage
Crisis: Issues Raised and Lessons Learned (Dwight Jaffee).

The Commission?s work is supported by the Governments of Australia, the
Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, the William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation, and the World Bank Group.
For more information and the draft thematic papers, please visit:
www.growthcommission.org

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

SEMINAR: "Growth Strategies and Urbanization," April 17, 2008 at Preston Auditorium, 8:45am-12:30pm

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invite you to a half-day seminar on

Thursday, April 17, 2008
8:45 am - 12:30 pm
Preston Auditorium

For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org
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| |
| Growth Strategies and Urbanization |
| Insights from the Commission on Growth and Development |
| |
| Opening remarks by Danny Leipziger, Vice President and Head of |
| Network, PREM, The World Bank Group |
| Closing remarks by Graeme P. Wheeler, Managing |
| Director, The World Bank Group |
| |
| Join Michael Spence, Nobel Laureate in Economics, and Chairman |
| of the Commission on Growth and Development, along with an |
| eminent panel of commentators, including: |
| |
| Richard Arnott, Distinguished Professor of Economics, |
| University of California-Riverside |
| Augusto de la Torre, Chief Economist, Latin America and |
| Caribbean Region, World Bank |
| Gilles Duranton, Noranda Chair, Professor, Department of |
| Economics, University of Toronto |
| Richard Green, Professor of Real Estate, Finance and |
| Economics, George Washington University |
| Marja Hoek-Smit, Director, International Housing Finance |
| Program, Wharton School of Business |
| Sukkoo Kim, Associate Professor, University of |
| Washington-St. Louis |
| Johannes Linn, Executive Director, Wolfensohn Center for |
| Development, The Brookings Institution |
| Mahmoud Mohieldin, Minister of Investment of Egypt |
| George Peterson, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute (ret.) |
| John Quigley, I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor, |
| University of California at Berkeley |
| |
| to discuss the role of urbanization in growth strategies, based |
| on ?state of the art? papers covering the following topics: |
| |
| Urban Productivity, Agglomeration Economies and Growth |
| Geography and Regional Inequality |
| Urban Labor Markets and Growth |
| Urban Housing Policies |
| Lessons from the U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis |
| |
| Agenda: (See attached file: Agenda.doc) |
| |
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About the Commission on Growth and Development
The Commission on Growth and Development was established in April
2006 as a response to two insights. First, poverty cannot be reduced
in isolation from economic growth?an observation that has recently
been overlooked in thinking and strategies for development. Second,
there is growing awareness that knowledge about economic growth is
much less definitive than commonly thought. Consequently, the
Commission?s mandate is to ?take stock of the state of theoretical
and empirical knowledge on economic growth with a view to drawing
implications for policy for the current and next generation of
policy makers.?

To help explore the state of knowledge, the Commission invited
leading academics and policy makers from developing and
industrialized countries to explore and discuss economic issues it
thought relevant for growth and development, including controversial
ideas. Thematic papers assessed knowledge in several different
areas, among them urbanization.

The thematic papers on Urbanization cover the following areas: Urban
Productivity, Agglomeration Economies and Growth (Gilles Duranton,
John Quigley), Geography and Regional Inequality (Sukkoo Kim, Tony
Venables), Urban Housing Subsidy Policies (Richard Arnott), and The
U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Issues Raised and Lessons Learned
(Dwight Jaffee).

The Commission?s work is supported by the Governments of Australia,
the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, the William and
Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the World Bank Group.
For more information and the draft thematic papers, please visit:

www.growthcommission.org

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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 - SDV/DEC Seminar present: "How the World Bank Tried to Control the Population of the World, and Failed" discussed on Tuesday, April 8 at 12:30pm in JB1-080

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invite you to a book launch of a recent Harvard University Press
publication
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| | Fatal Misconception |
| | The Struggle to Control World Population |
| | by Matthew Connelly |
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| | In the 1970s a host of NGOs and |
| | international organizations, including |
| | the World Bank, declared a ?population |
| | crisis? and demanded an emergency |
| | response, including earmarked |
| | appropriations and "incentive payments" |
| | to persuade poor people to be |
| | sterilized. So much money poured in so |
| | fast that spending became an end onto |
| | itself. The pressure to scale up and |
| | show results transformed organizations |
| | ostensibly dedicated to helping people |
| | plan their families into tools for |
| | social engineering. Leaders like Robert |
| | McNamara pushed ?crash programs," even |
| | though the risks entailed were palpable, |
| | including the long-range sustainability |
| | of programs that really were devoted to |
| | advancing reproductive rights and |
| | health. Rather than accept constraints |
| | or accountability, they preferred to let |
| | population control go out of control. It |
| | finally culminated with the Emergency |
| | Period in India, when over eight million |
| | people were sterilized in a single year. |
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
12:30 - 2:00 pm

Auditorium JB1-080
World Bank J Building
701 18th Street NW

For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Matthew Connelly
Associate Professor of History,Columbia University
Professor Connelly works in international and global history. His
publications include A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria?s Fight for
Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era (2002) and
research articles in Comparative Studies in Society and History, The
International Journal of Middle East Studies, The American
Historical Review, The Review française d?histoire d?Outre-mer, and
Past & Present. He has also published commentary on international
affairs in The Atlantic Monthly and The National Interest.

MODERATED BY
Varun Gauri
Senior Economist
Mr.Gauri is a Senior Economist in the Development Research Group of
the World Bank. His research focuses on politics and governance in
the social sectors, and aims to combine quantitative and qualitative
methods in economics and social science research. He is leading
research projects on the impact of legal strategies to claim
economic and social rights, and on the cross-country diffusion of
development innovations. He has published papers on a wide variety
of topics, including the political economy of government responses
to HIV/AIDS,  the strategic choices of development NGOs, the use of
vouchers for basic education, and immunization in developing
countries, and was a core team member of the 2007 World Development
Report.
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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: "Remittances and Development: Lessons from Latin America" on Tuesday, April 8th

The InfoShop/World Bank Public Information Center

&

World Bank External Affairs Unit for Latin America and the Caribbean

invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent publication

"Remittances and Development: Lessons from Latin America"

Book presentation and debate on the impact of US economic slowdown

Workers' remittances have become a major source of financing for developing
countries and are especially important in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC),
which is at the top of the ranking of remittances receiving regions in the
world. While there has been a recent surge in analytical work on the topic, this
book is motivated by the large heterogeneity in migration and remittances
patterns across countries and regions, and by the fact that existing evidence
for LAC is restricted to only a few countries, such as Mexico and El Salvador.
Because the nature of the phenomenon varies across countries, its development
impact and policy implications are also likely to differ in ways that are still
largely unknown. This book helps fill the gap by exploring, in the specific
context of Latin America and Caribbean countries, some of the main questions
faced by policymakers when trying to respond to increasing remittances flows.

For more information, or to order the book, please click here.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
2:00 - 3:00 pm

Conference Center I1-200
World Bank I Building
1850 I (Eye) Street NW

Please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

INTRODUCED BY
Pamela Cox
Vice President, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Ms. Cox is the World Bank?s Vice President for the Latin America and the
Caribbean Region. She is a development economist and has held several management
positions in various countries and regions since joining the Bank in 1980. Most
recently, she was Director of Strategy and Operations for the Africa Region,
where she oversaw the increase of Bank lending to the poorest African countries.
Ms. Cox also served as Country Director for South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho,
Namibia and Swaziland. She was Chief of the Country Operations Division in East
Asia, and served as Chief of the Agriculture and Environment Operations in the
same region.

PRESENTED BY EDITORS
Pablo Fajnzylber
Senior Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Mr. Fajnzylber is a Senior Economist in the Chief Economist?s Office of the
Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank. Previously, he worked at
the Bank?s Finance and Private Sector Development Department and at its
Development Economics Research Group. Mr. Fajnzylber has published in various
professional journals on a variety of development topics, including the economic
impact of workers? remittances, the dynamics of micro-enterprises in developing
countries, the impact of international trade on labor demand, and the economic
causes of violent crime. He has also contributed to publications on informality
and the determinants of economic growth in Latin America.

J. Humberto Lopez
Lead Economist and Sector Leader, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World
Bank
Mr. Lopez has been Lead Economist and Sector Leader for Poverty Reduction and
Economic Management for Central America at the World Bank since February 2008.
Previously, he was a senior economist in the Office of the Regional Chief
Economist, where he co-authored reports on pro-poor growth and on remittances
and development. He worked on operational aspects of the Poverty Reduction
Strategy Paper and Heavily Indebted Poor Country initiatives at the Bank's
Central America department and on pro-poor growth and poverty and social impact
analysis in the Poverty department. Mr. Lopez has published on issues related
to fiscal policy, optimal currency areas and real exchange rate misalignment,
international business cycle synchronization, armed conflict and development,
and pro-poor growth.

COMMENTS BY
Susan Minushkin
Deputy Director, Pew Hispanic Center
Ms. Minushkin joined the Pew Hispanic Center from the Centro de Investigaciones
y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City, where she was a professor of
international studies and director of the first ongoing public and elite survey
in Mexico on foreign policy and Mexican attitudes toward international issues.
Her research expertise includes Mexican public opinion and foreign policy, Latin
American politics, and economic globalization in developing countries.

MODERATED BY
Sergio Jellinek
Communications Advisor, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Mr. Jellinek is the Communications Advisor for the Latin America and the
Caribbean Region at the World Bank, where he oversees communications for the
Bank?s entire action field within the region. He is also a founder of COM+
Alliance, which is a partnership of international organizations and
communications professionals who are committed to using communications to
advance a vision of sustainable development. He has extensive experience in
developing countries both as a working journalist and as an advisor to
international organizations.

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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
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