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cordially invite you to a launch of a series of books

New Frontiers of Social Policy
Inclusive States, Equity and Assets
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| Wednesday | Weak governance, market imperfections and|
| June 4, 2008 | historically rooted structural|
| 12:00 - 2:00 pm | inequalities have undermined the|
| World Bank J | effectiveness of social policy in many|
| Building | developing countries and need a renewed|
| Auditorium JB1-080| commitment toward social dimensions of|
| 701 18th Street, | sustainable development. |
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| Washington, DC | These three books by a multi-disciplinary|
| | group of development researchers focus on|
| Refreshments will | different but interrelated conceptual and|
| be served | policy themes highly relevant to debates|
| | on development, equity and poverty|
| For more | reduction. Each fills gaps in knowledge|
| information and to| and practice ten years after the|
| buy the books | Copenhagen World Summit on Social|
| please visit click| Development. The themes include the|
| here. | relationship between equity and|
| | development, the role of institutions in|
| | blocking or promoting transitions to more|
| | inclusive states and more equitable forms|
| | of development, and the diverse strategies|
| | adopted by people through migration, slum|
| | upgrading, natural resources management,|
| | and informal businesses to accumulate|
| | assets and manage risks. |
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CHAIR
Kathy Sierra
Vice President and Head of Network, Sustainable Development Network,
World Bank

MODERATOR
Caroline Kende-Robb
Sector Manager, Social Development Department, World Bank

BOOK INTRODUCTIONS BY THE EDITORS:
Anis Dani
Adviser, Social Policy SDV and Operations Adviser, QAG, World Bank

VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE
Arjan de Haan
Policy Analyst, Department for International Development (DFID),
Beijing Office

Caroline Moser
Director Global Urban Research Centre, School of Environment and
Development, The University of Manchester

DISCUSSANTS
Francisco Ferreira
Lead Economist, Development Research Group (DECRG), World Bank
Former Director of World Development Report 2006: Equity and
Development

Carol Graham
Senior Fellow and Charles Robinson Chair, Foreign Policy/Global
Economy and Development, The Brookings Institution
Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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What's New at the InfoShop, May 2008

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Come and visit the InfoShop. There is always something new. The titles below
have just been added to our collection.

World Bank Staff receive 30% discount on World Bank titles, and 10% discount on
externally published titles.

Click on the title for more information.

World Bank Publications

Working Out of Poverty: Job Creation and the Quality of Growth in Africa, by
Louise M. Fox , Melissa Sekkel Gaal. $20.00pb.

Accounting for Infrastructure Regulation: An Introduction, by Eric Groom ,
Richard Schlirf Rapti , Martin Rodriguez Pardina. $30.00pb.

Forests Sourcebook: Practical Guidance for Sustaining Forests in Development
Cooperation. $30.00pb.

Inclusive States: Social Policy and Structural Inequalities, edited by Anis A.
Dani , Arjan de Haan. $30.00pb.

An African Exploration of the East Asian Education Experience, edited by
Jee-Peng Tan , Birger Fredriksen. $60.00pb, w/CD-ROM

Inclusive States: Social Policy and Structural Inequalities, edited by Anis A.
Dani , Arjan de Haan. $30.00pb.

miniAtlas of Human Security, by World Bank , The Human Security Centre . $9.95.

The Little Green Data Book 2008, by World Bank. $15.00pb.

Teachers for Rural Schools: Experiences in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique,
Tanzania, and Uganda,  edited by Aidan Mulkeen , Dandan Chen. $25.00pb.

Unleashing Prosperity: Productivity Growth in Eastern Europe and Former Soviet
Union, by Asad Alam, Paloma Anos Casero, Faruk Khan and Charles Udomsaph. $35.00
pb.

The Little Data Book 2008, by World Bank. $15.00pb.

Assets, Livelihoods, and Social Policy, edited by Caroline Moser , Anis A. Dani.
$30.00pb.

Parliaments as Peacebuilders in Conflict-Affected Countries, edited by Mitchell
O'Brien , Rick Stapenhurst , Niall Johnston. $30.00pb.

Hospital Performance in Brazil: The Search for Excellence, by Gerard M. La
Forgia , Bernard F. Couttolenc. $40.00pb.

Current Affairs

The Return of History and the End of Dreams, by Robert Kagan. Alfred A. Knopf.
5/2008. $19.95hb.

The Post-American World, by Fareed Zakaria. W. W. Norton. 5/2008. $25.95hb.

The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore. Penguin. 5/2008. $16.00. New in paperback

The Secret History of American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth
about Global Corruption, by John Perkins . Plume. 5/2008. $15.00. New in
paperback

After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy, by Timothy J.
Lynch , Robert S. Singh. Cambridge University Press. 5/2008. $28.00hb.

Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War, by Stanley Meisler . John Wiley
and Sons, Inc. 5/2008. $18.95. New in paperback!

The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for
All of Us, by Robyn Meredith. W. W. Norton. 5/2008. $15.95. New in paperback!

Reuters: Our World Now.  Thames and Hudson. 5/2008. $24.95pb.

Development Economics

Reinventing Foreign Aid, edited by William Easterly. MIT Press. 5/2008. $35.00
pb.

Development and Globalization: Facts and Figures, by UNCTAD. United Nations.
5/2008. $25.00pb.

Countering Development: Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination, by David
D. Gow.  Duke University Press. 5/2008. $23.95pb.

General Economics

OECD Factbook 2008: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics. Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development. 5/2008. $50.00pb.

Econometric Forecasting and High-Frequency Data Analysis, edited by Robert S.
Mariano , Yiu-Kuen Tse.  World Scientific Publishers. 5/2008. $68.00hb.

Economic Sanctions Reconsidered, 3/e, w/CD-ROM, by Gary C. Hufbauer , Jeffrey J.
Schott , Kimberly Ann Elliott , Barbara Oegg. Peterson Institute for
International Economics. 5/2008. $49.95hb.

Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next
Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist, by Tyler Cowen. Plume. 5/2008. $15.00. New
in paperback!

Social and Cultural Issues

Cultural Politics in a Global Age: Uncertainty, Solidarity, and Innovation,
edited by David Held , Henrietta L. Moore. Oneworld. 5/2008. $34.00pb.

Indigenous Peoples: Self-determination Knowledge Indigeneity, edited by Henry
Minde. Eburon. 5/2008. $40.00pb.

A Casebook of Social Change in Developing Areas, edited by Arthur H. Niehoff.
Transaction Publishers. 5/2008. $29.95pb.

Youth and the City in the Global South, by Karen Tranberg Hansen. Indiana
University Press. 5/2008. $24.95pb.

Human Rights

The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era, with a
New Preface, by Micheline R. Ishay. University of California Press. $27.50pb.

Refugee Rights: Ethics, Advocacy, and Africa, edited by David Hollenbach, SJ.
Georgetown University Press. 5/2008. $26.95pb.

To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today's Slaves, edited by Kevin
Bales , Zoe Trodd, Cornell University Press. 5/2008. $18.95pb.

Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery, edited by Jesse Sage , Liora
Kasten.  Palgrave Macmillan. 5/2008. $14.95. New in paperback!

Globalization

Going Global: Key Questions for the 21st Century, by Michael Moynagh , Richard
Worsley. A & C Black. 5/2008. $19.95pb.

The Rules of Globalization: Case Book, edited by Rawi Abdelal. World Scientific
Publishers. 5/2008. $78.00pb.

Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide, by J. Macgregor Wise. Blackwell
Publishers. 5/2008. $24.95pb.

How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy, by Mark
Engler. Nation Books. 5/2008. $16.95pb.

Banking, Finance and Investment

Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance
Are Changing the World, by Alex Counts. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 5/2008. $29.95
hb.

The Secret Code of Japanese Candlesticks, by Felipe Tudela. John Wiley and Sons,
Inc. 5/2008. $80.00hb.

Village Savings and Loan Associations: A Practical Guide, by Hugh Allen , Mark
Staehle. Practical Action Publishing. 5/2008. $29.95pb.

Conversations with Practitioners: The Challenges of Market-led Microfinance, by
Guy Winship. Practical Action Publishing. 5/2008. $28.95pb.

Hedge Funds: An Analytic Perspective, by Andrew W. Lo. Princeton University
Press. 5/2008. $45.00hb.

The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credity Crisis of 2008 and What It
Means, by George Soros. PublicAffairs. 5/2008. $22.95hb.

Asset Pricing: Frontiers of Real Estate Finance, Vol. 1, edited by Jianping Mei
, Hsien-hsing Liao. World Scientific Publishers. 5/2008. $70.00hb.

IFRS Policies and Procedures, by Barry J. Epstein , Eva K. Jermakowicz.  John
Wiley and Sons, Inc. 5/2008. $65.00pb.

Equity Valuation: Models from Leading Investment Banks, edited by Jan Viebig ,
Thorsten Poddig , Armin Varmaz. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 5/2008. $90.00hb.

Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction, edited by
Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis , George Mavrotas. Palgrave Macmillan. 5/2008. $90.00hb.

Development Finance in the Global Economy: The Road Ahead, edited by Tony
Addison , George Mavrotas. Palgrave Macmillan. $90.00hb.

Management and Leadership

Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor, by Warren G. Bennis ,
Daniel Goleman , James O'Toole. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 5/2008. $22.95hb.

Innovation Leaders: How Senior Executives Stimulate, Steer, and Sustain
Innovation, by Jean-Philippe Deschamps.  Jossey-Bass. 5/2008. $34.95hb.

The Change Cycle: How People Can Survive and Thrive in Organizational Change, by
Ann Salerno , Lillie Brock. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. 5/2008. $19.95pb.

Communication Counts: Business Presentations for Busy People, by Mary
Civiello.  John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 5/2008. $21.95pb.

Gender

Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry, by Laura
Maria Agustin. Zed Books. 5/2008. $31.00pb.

The Gender Politics of Development: Essays in Hope and Despair, by Shirin M.
Rai. Zed Books. 5/2008. $30.95pb.

Women in Islam and the Middle East: A Reader, edited by Ruth Roded. I. B.
Tauris. 5/2008. $27.95pb.

Governance, Civil Society and Participation

Institutional Interplay: Biosafety and Trade, edited by Oran R. Young , W.
Bradnee Chambers , Joy A. Kim , Claudia ten Have. United Nations University
Press. 5/2008. $30.00pb.

Legal and Judicial Issues

Law and Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal About Legal Systems and
Economic Development Around the World, by Curtis J. Milhaupt , Katharina Pistor.
University of Chicago Press. 5/2008. $39.00hb.

Poverty

The Politics of Economic Inequality in Developing Countries, by Philip Nel.
Palgrave Macmillan. 5/2008. $74.95hb.

Commodities, Pricing and Trade

Elimination of TRIMs: The Experience of Selected Developing Countries. UNCTAD.
United Nations. 5/2008. $35.00pb.

Global Rice and Agricultural Trade Liberalisation: Poverty and Welfare
Implications for South Asia, edited by Mohammad A. Razzaque , Edwin Laurent.
Commonwealth Secretariat. 5/2008. $38.95pb.

Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice,
by Gavin Fridell. University of Toronto Press. 5/2008. $29.95. New in paperback!

Trade Barriers to the Public Good: Free Trade and Environmental Protection, by
Alex C. Michalos. McGill-Queens University Press. 5/2008. $34.95pb.

Education and Training

Higher Education in the World 3: Higher Education: New Challenges and Emerging
Roles for Human and Social Development, by Global University Network for
Innovation.  Palgrave Macmillan. 5/2008. $60.00pb.

Energy, Industry and Mining

The Political Economy of Sustainable Energy, by Catherine Mitchell. Palgrave
Macmillan. 5/2008. $74.95hb.

Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil, by Nicholas Shaxson. Palgrave
Macmillan. 5/2008. $18.95pb.

Environment and Pollution Prevention

Interlinkages and the Effectiveness of Multilateral Environmental Agreements, by
W. Bradnee Chambers. United Nations University Press. 5/2008. $34.00pb.

Migration and Climate Change. International Organization for Migration. United
Nations. 5/2008. $16.00pb.

The Climate Diet: How You Can Cut Carbon, Cut Costs, and Save the Planet, by
Jonathan Harrington. Earthscan. 5/2008. $15.95pb.

A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies, by
William Nordhaus.  Yale University Press. 5/2008. $28.00hb.

Dynamic and Stochastic Approaches to the Environment and Economic Development,
by Amitrajeet A. Batabyal.  World Scientific Publishers . 5/2008. $68.00hb.

Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Tourism Sector: Frameworks,
Tools and Practices, by United Nations Environment Programme. United Nations.
5/2008. $40.00pb.

What Is Biodiversity?, by James Maclaurin , Kim Sterelny.  University of Chicago
Press. 5/2008. $24.00pb.

Health, Nutrition and Population

Children and the Millennium Development Goals: Progress towards a World Fit for
Children. Unicef. United Nations. 5/2008. $15.00pb.

World Population Policies 2007. Economic and Social Affairs. United Nations.
5/2008. $70.00pb.

The Politics of Global Health Governance: United By Contagion, by Mark W. Zacher
, Tania J. Keefe.Palgrave Macmillan. 5/2008. $79.95hb.

Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, by Raj Patel.
Melville House Publishing. 5/2008. $19.95pb.

Demographic Analysis: Projections on Natality, Fertility and Replacement, by
Roland Pressat .Transaction Publishers. 5/2008. $39.95pb.

The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS, by
Elizabeth Pisani. W. W. Norton. 5/2008. $25.95hb.

Food and the Poor: How Can Democratic Local Governments Reduce Food Insecurity
in Africa, by United Nations Capital Development Fund. United Nations. 5/2008.
$19.95pb.

28 Stories of AIDS in Africa, by Stephanie Nolen. Walker & Co. 5/2008. $15.99.
New in paperback!

The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS, by Helen
Epstein. Picador. 5/2008. $16.00. New in paperback!

Labor and Income

Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social
Justice, by Bill Fletcher, Jr. , Fernando Gapasin. University of California
Press. 5/2008. $24.95hb.

Private Sector

Privatization for the Public Good?: Welfare Effects of Private Intervention in
Latin America, edited by Alberto Chong. Harvard University Press ,
Inter-American Development Bank. 5/2008. $29.95pb.

Public Sector

The Marginal Cost of Public Funds: Theory and Applications, by Bev Dahlby. MIT
Press. 5/2008. $40.00hb.

Public Sector Economics, by Richard W. Tresch. Palgrave Macmillan. 5/2008.
$79.95hb.

United Nations E-Government Survey 2008: From E-Government to Connected
Governance, by Department of Economic and Social Affairs.  United Nations.
5/2008. $55.00pb.

Water Supply and Sanitation

Water Resources in the Middle East: Israel-Palestine Water Issues - From
Conflict to Cooperation, edited by Hillel Shuval , Hassan Dweik. Springer. 2007.
$169.00hb.

Our Waters: Joining Hands Across Borders - First Assessment of Transboundary
Rivers, Lakes and Groundwaters, by Economic Commission for Europe. United
Nations. 5/2008. $55.00pb.

Africa

The Betrayal of Africa: A Groundwork Guide, by Gerald Caplan. Groundwood Books.
5/2008. $10.00pb.

Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival, by Fadumo Korn.
Feminist Press. 5/2008. $15.95pb.

All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo, by Bryan
Mealer. Bloomsbury. 5/2008. $24.99hb.

Becoming Somaliland, by Mark Bradbury. Indiana University Press. 5/2008. $22.95
pb.

Gender and Genocide in Burundi: The Search for Spaces of Peace in the Great
Lakes Region, by Patricia O. Daley.  Indiana University Press. 5/2008. $24.95pb.

Darfur: A New History of a Long War, Revised and Updated, by Julie Flint , Alex
de Waal. Zed Books. 5/2008. $18.00pb.

Khayelitsha: uMlungu in a Township, by Steven Otter. Penguin. 5/2008. $18.50pb.

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It, by Stephen
Kinzer.  John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 5/2008. $25.95hb.

Latin America and the Caribbean

A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean, by Gary Buslik . Solas House, Inc.
5/2008. $14.95pb.

An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President, by
Randall Robinson.  Basic Books. 5/2008. $16.95. New in paperback!

Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope, Revised Edition, by Tariq Ali. Verso.
5/2008. $17.95. New in paperback!

Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes: Social Policy, Informality, and Economic Growth
in Mexico, by Santiago Levy.  Brookings Institution Press. 5/2008. $27.95pb.

Europe and Central Asia

Croatia Through History, by Branka Magas. Saqi Books. 5/2008. $60.00hb.

To the Castle and Back, by Vaclav Havel. Random House. 5/2008. $15.95pb.

Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia, by Marshall I. Goldman.  Oxford
University Press. 5/2008. $27.95hb.

The European Union, by Duncan Watts. Edinburgh University Press. 5/2008. $32.50
pb.

Middle East and North Africa

The Israel-Arab Reader : A Documantary History of the Middle East Conflict, e
dited by Walter Laqueur , Barry Rubin. Penguin. 5/2008. $18.00pb.

Industrial Policy in the Middle East and North Africa: Rethinking the Role of
the State, edited by Ahmed Galal.  American University in Cairo Press. 5/2008.
$24.50pb.

A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind, by Michael Axworthy. Basic Books. 5/2008.
$27.50hb.

A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East, by Lawrence Freedman.
PublicAffairs. 5/2008. $29.95hb.

Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution, by John R.
Bradley.  Palgrave Macmillan. 5/2008. $24.95hb.

Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life, by Sari Nusseibeh. Farrar, Straus &
Giroux. 5/2008. $16.00. New in paperback!

Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, by Saree Makdisi. W. W. Norton.
5/2008. $24.95hb.

Tragedy in South Lebanon: The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006, by Cathy
Sultan.  Scarletta Press. 5/2008. $16.95pb.

Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement, by Zaki Chehab.
Nation Books. 5/2008. $15.95. New in paperback!

Iran: A People Interrupted, by Hamid Dabashi. The New Press. 5/2008. $17.95. New
in paperback!

Asia and the Pacific

China's Struggle for Status: The Realignment of International Relations, by Yong
Deng. Cambridge University Press. 5/2008. $29.99pb.

Taking Southeast Asia to Market: Commodities, Nature, and People in the
Neoliberal Age, edited by Joseph Nevins , Nancy Lee Peluso. Cornell University
Press. 5/2008. $24.95pb.

Equality and Growth in Modern China, edited by Guanghua Wan.  Oxford University
Press. 5/2008. $60.00hb.

Asia Rising: Who Is Leading?, by Amitav Acharya.  World Scientific Publishers.
5/2008. $25.00pb.

Unfinished Nation: Indonesia Before and After Suharto, by Max Lane. Verso.
5/2008. $29.95pb.

China's Great Train: Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Make Tibet, by
Abrahm Lustgarten. Henry Holt. $26.00hb.

China Developing: Cultural Identity of Emerging Societies, by George Fusun Ling.
World Scientific Publishers. 5/2008. $68.00hb.

Fiction

Cairo Modern, by Naguib Mahfouz. American University of Cairo Press. 5/2008.
$19.95hb.

The Sirens of Baghdad, by Yasmina Khadra. Anchor Books. $13.95pb.

In the Country of Men, by Hashim Matar.Dial Press. 5/2008. $12.00pb.

World Bank titles are available to staff at a 30% discount

"Business and Poverty: Opening markets to the poor" launched on Monday, June 9 from 12:00 to 1:30pm in Preston Auditorium

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invite you to the launch of the June issue of Development Outreach
on
Business and Poverty:
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| | Monday, June 9, 2008 |
| | 12:00 - 1:30 pm |
| | The presentation is followed by a |
| | lunch reception |
| | World Bank Main Complex |
| | Preston Auditorium |
| | 1818 H Street, NW |
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PRESENTED BY DEVELOPMENT OUTREACH GUEST EDITORS:
V. Kasturi Rangan
Professor, Harvard Business School

William Laufer
Professor, Wharton School of Business

Djordjija Petkoski
Program Leader, Business, Competitiveness & Development Team, World Bank
Institute

DISCUSSED BY
David Lustig
Vice President for External Affairs, Unilever

Tony Henshaw
Corporate Vice President of Sustainability, CEMEX

Masakazu Sago
President, Sumimoto Chemical USA

Louise Hilsen
Vice President of Government Affairs, Nestle USA

MODERATED BY
Chris Neal
Senior Communications Officer, World Bank Institute

________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation" discussed on Tuesday, June 17 at 10:00am in MC4-800

The World Bank Public Information Center/InfoShop and the World Bank Institute
Global Programs

invite you to a book launch

Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability
A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation

This book is the World Bank's first publication presenting good practices from
around the world in media and broadcasting policy and regulation and complements
existing work in governance, public sector reform, and access to information. It
is a useful tool for policymakers, reform managers, development practitioners,
and students alike.

With the guidance of this book, broadcasting policy and regulation can be
tackled as a mainstream development topic, with important consequences for
government transparency, government accountability, and enabling disadvantaged
constituencies to voice their concerns and press for action.

For more information, please click here.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
10:00am - 12:00 pm
World Bank Main Complex
MC4-800
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC
Refreshments will be served

Please RSVP by sending an email to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

INTRODUCED BY
Daniel Kaufmann
Director of Global Programs and Governance, World Bank Institute
Mr. Kaufmann is a leading expert, researcher, and adviser to countries on
governance and development and has pioneered new approaches to analyze country
governance as well as survey methodologies and indicators for good governance
and anti-corruption programs around the world. He has previously held positions
at the World Bank which include managing a team on Finance, Regulation and
Governance, heading capacity building for Latin America, and also serving as
Lead Economist both in economies in transition as well as in the Bank's research
department. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum (DAVOS) faculty.

MODERATED BY
Kreszentia Duer
New Business Development Leader, World Bank Institute
Ms. Duer manages a technical assistance program to strengthen policies,
institutions, and capacities for Civic Engagement, Empowerment, and Respect for
Diversity (CEERD) in developing countries (worldbank.org/ceerd). Her thirty
years of development experience, leadership and management roles at the World
Bank include rural poverty, urban development, environment, social development
and education, in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. She is a
member of the International Editorial Board of the journal, Policy Sciences.

PRESENTED BY AUTHORS
Steve Buckley
President, World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters
Managing Director, CM Solutions
Mr. Buckley is a communications policy expert and media development advisor who
has worked with governments, UN agencies and non-governmental organizations. He
has been President of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters
since 2003. He is also a member of the International Council of IFEX. He has
been a speaker at numerous international conferences and events on media,
communications and development and has authored many related reports, book
chapters and policy papers including, among others, for the UK Department for
International Development, UNESCO, UN ICT Task Force, the World Bank, Institute
for Development Studies, Social Science Research Council and the Ford
Foundation.

Toby Mendel
Law/Asia Programmes Director, ARTICLE 19, Global Campaign for Free Expression
Mr. Mendel is the author of numerous books and articles on issues such as
broadcasting, the right to information, defamation and other freedom of
expression issues. He has worked extensively on media law issues in Asia,
Africa, Europe and the Middle East, running training seminars, advising
governments and local NGOs, critiquing laws and taking cases to both national
and international courts.

Seán Ó Siochrú
Director, NEXUS Research, Dublin, Ireland
Chair, Dublin Community Television
Spokesperson, Campaign for Communication Rights in the Information Society
(CRIS)
Mr. Ó Siochrú has published many books, chapters and articles on media and
communication issues, and works with international agencies and NGOs across the
world. He has over twenty years experience in international communications and
media assessment, regional economic issues, and local development activities.
He was also Secretary General and Treasurer of the MacBride Round Table on
Communications, which meets every year in a different country to debate global
communications issues.

Monroe Price
Director, Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for
Communication, University of Pennsylvania Professor of Law, Cardozo School of
Law
Director, Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research, London
Mr. Price works with a wide transnational network of regulators, scholars, and
practitioners in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia as well as in the United
States. He has published several books, chapters, and articles on media issues.
His recent books include ?Media and Sovereignty: The Global Information
Revolution and its Challenge to State Power? (MIT, 2002) and ?Owning the
Olympics: Narratives of the New China? (University of Michigan Press, 2008,
edited with Daniel Dayan).

Marc Raboy
Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications and is a
Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill
University, Montreal, Canada
Mr. Raboy has been a consultant to various international organizations including
the World Bank, UNESCO, the Council of Europe and the European Broadcasting
Union and is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on media and
communication policy.

DISCUSSED BY
Eric Chinje
Manager, Africa Region External Affairs, World Bank
Mr. Chinje was Editor-in-Chief and News Anchor at the national television in
Cameroon, a journalism lecturer in the School of Mass Communications (University
of Cameroon), a contributing reporter to CNN World Report, and a stringer for
Deutschewelle (Voice of Germany Radio), the BBC and Voice of America. He has
written, published and lectured on Media and Development in Africa. He is an
Officer of the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau and of the Cameroon Order of Valour,
an Honorary Member of the Memphis City Council, a former Patron of the Cameroon
Friends of Nature Society, and a Board Member of the Rwanda Foundation, the
Women's Economic Empowerment Network(WEEN), and the Zambia Orphans of AIDS (ZOA)
committee.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Strategic Environmental Assessment for Policies - an Instrument for Good Governance" on Tuesday, June 3 at 3:00-5:00pm in J1-050

The World Bank Public Information Cetner/InfoShop & the World Bank Environment
Department

INVITE YOU TO A LAUNCH OF A RECENT WORLD BANK PUBLICATION FOLLOWED BY A
RECEPTION

Strategic Environmental Assessment for Policies
An Instrument for Good Governance

Environmentally and socially sustainable policies are essential for good
governance. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is the key tool for
integrating environmental considerations into policies, programs and plans.
This edited book focuses on SEA applied to policies. Through lessons learned
from previous use of SEA on policies, it draws lessons on strengths and
weaknesses of current SEA methodology. It then goes on to analyze how policies
are formulated and implemented and proposes a new conceptual framework for
conducting SEA of policies that potentially could be more useful in influencing
decision makers to integrate environmental sustainability considerations into
policy formulation and implementation. Currently this framework is being
piloted in developing countries in different sectors by the World Bank.

Strategic Environmental Assessment for Policies: An Instrument for Good
Governance is the third title in the Environment and Development Series. This
new series from World Bank Publications covers current and emerging issues in
order to promote debate and broaden the understanding of environmental
challenges as integral to equitable and sustained economic growth.

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

Tuesday, June 3
3:00 - 5:00pm
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
Inger Andersen
Director, Sustainable Development Department, Africa Region, World Bank
Ms. Andersen has just been appointed Director of the World Bank's Sustainable
Development Department for the Africa Region (the department covers water supply
and sanitation, water resource management, energy, agriculture and rural
development, environment, urban development, transport, conflict prevention and
social development) . Prior to her Africa appointment, Ms. Andersen served as
Director of the Sustainable Development Department in the Middle East and North
Africa Region of the World Bank Group. She has also held positions as Sector
Manager in the Bank's Africa Urban and Water Unit for West and Central Africa
and as Sr. Water Resources Specialist in the Africa Region, where she worked on
large river basins, including the Senegal, the Niger and the Nile River Basins.
Prior to joining the World Bank, Ms. Andersen held various positions at United
Nations Development Program,including managing environment and water operations
and policy dialogue in both Africa and the Middle East regions. She has also
worked in Sudan, where she managed an NGO supporting drought, famine, and war
relief and rehabilitation in Sudan.

PRESENTED BY CO-EDITORS
Kulsum Ahmed
Lead Environmental Specialist, Environment Department, World Bank
Ms. Ahmed is a lead environmental specialist at the World Bank and team leader
for the environmental institutions and governance program (which includes, among
other activities, the SEA program) and environmental-health program in the
Environment Department. She has considerable experience as an operations task
manager and led the team that prepared the Bank's first structural adjustment
loan to integrate environmental considerations in key sector's of a country's
economy. She is the World Bank's representative on the OECD Development
Assistance Committee's task team on strategic environmental assessment. She has
authored numerous publications on energy, the environment, health, strategic
assessment, and industrial pollution.

Ernesto Sánchez-Triana
Senior Environmental Engineer, South Asia Sustainable Development Department,
World Bank
Mr. Sánchez-Triana is a senior environmental engineer in the World Bank's South
Asia Region. Before joining the Bank he taught at Colombia's National
University, managed the Special Division of Environmental Policy in Colombia's
Department of National Planning, and worked at the Inter-American Development
Bank. At the World Bank, he has led the preparation of policy-based loans that
aim to incorporate environmental considerations into economic and sectoral
policies, as well as the conduction of comprehensive assessments to identify and
correct the institutional weaknesses that contribute to environmental
degradation. Mr. Sánchez-Triana is the author of numerous publications on
environmental and energy policy, political economy, and the use of economic
instruments for environmental protection.

DISCUSSED BY
Harry Blair
Contributing Author and Lecturer in Political Science, Yale University
Mr. Blair currently serves as Associate Chair, Senior Research Scholar and
Lecturer in Political Science at Yale University. Previously he has held
positions at Bucknell, Colgate, Columbia, Cornell and Rutgers Universities. In
his research and practical work, he focused initially on agriculture and rural
development policy, shifting more into forestry and natural resource management
in the 1980s. Since the early 1990s, he has worked mainly in the democracy and
governance area, principally in the civil society and decentralization sectors.
Geographically, his field work and writing include Eastern Europe, Latin
America, and both South and Southeast Asia. Dr. Blair served several years as
senior advisor with the United States Agency for International Development and
has worked as a short-term consultant for the Department for International
Development (UK), Ford Foundation, Swedish International Development Cooperation
Agency, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
Development Programme, and the World Bank. His recent writing can be found at
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~hb94.

Caroline Kende-Robb
Contributing Author and Sector Manager, Social Development Department, World
Bank
Prior to her current assignment, Ms. Kende-Robb was the first Social Development
Specialist recruited by the International Monetary Fund, with the responsibility
of promoting a greater poverty and social development focus in Fund-supported
programs. Ms. Kende-Robb also has considerable work experience in the private
sector, as well as with non-governmental organizations. She has lived and
worked in West Africa for extensive periods of time. Ms. Kende-Robb has
published a book titled, Can the Poor Influence Policy? Participatory Poverty
Assessments in the Developing World.

Colin Bruce
Country Director, World Bank
Mr. Bruce, a Guyanese national, is Country Director for Comoros, Eritrea, Kenya,
Rwanda, Seychelles and Somalia. In that capacity, he has worked on many
practical aspects of advancing governance through country and sector strategies
and programs. Previously, he was Senior Manager for Policy Review and
Dissemination in the Operations Policy and Country Services Vice Presidency.
One of the first Strategic Environmental Assessment pilots, using the conceptual
framework described in the book, was carried out to support implementation of
the new Forest Law in Kenya.

Michael Stanley
Senior Mining Engineer, Oil, Gas and Mining, Joint World Bank and IFC Department
Mr. Stanley, a Canadian national, is a senior mining engineer (COCPO) with
expertise in a) resource assessment, b) economics, and c) policy issues in the
mining sector. His work includes mineral policy development through improved
resource governance, mineral resource development as a tool for achieving
economic sustainability, indigenous cultures and integrating local issues in
resource development. He is the Task Team Leader for mining projects in Sierra
Leone and Pakistan, co-Task Team Leader for the Kosovo mining project, and a
team member of the Afghanistan mining project -- all projects where Strategic
Environmental Assessment is currently being undertaken. Prior to joining the
World Bank, he lead a series of major resource policy development projects and
supervised international exploration programs for precious and base metals. He
published numerous articles and papers on mining and mineral resources.

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Strategic Environmental Assessment for Policies - an Instrument for Good Governance" on Tuesday, June 3 at 3:00-5:00pm in J1-050

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INVITE YOU TO A LAUNCH OF A RECENT WORLD BANK PUBLICATION FOLLOWED
BY A RECEPTION
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| World Bank J | sustainable policies are essential |
| Building | for good governance. Strategic |
| Auditorium J1-050 | Environmental Assessment (SEA) is the |
| | key tool for integrating |
| | environmental considerations into |
| | policies, programs and plans. This |
| | edited book focuses on SEA applied to |
| | policies. Through lessons learned |
| | from previous use of SEA on policies, |
| | it draws lessons on strengths and |
| | weaknesses of current SEA |
| | methodology. It then goes on to |
| | analyze how policies are formulated |
| | and implemented and proposes a new |
| | conceptual framework for conducting |
| | SEA of policies that potentially |
| | could be more useful in influencing |
| | decision makers to integrate |
| | environmental sustainability |
| | considerations into policy |
| | formulation and implementation. |
| | Currently this framework is being |
| | piloted in developing countries in |
| | different sectors by the World Bank. |
| | |
| | Strategic Environmental Assessment |
| | for Policies: An Instrument for Good |
| | Governance is the third title in the |
| | Environment and Development Series. |
| | This new series from World Bank |
| | Publications covers current and |
| | emerging issues in order to promote |
| | debate and broaden the understanding |
| | of environmental challenges as |
| | integral to equitable and sustained |
| | economic growth. |
| | |
| | For more information or to buy the |
| | book, please click here. |
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CHAIRED BY
Inger Andersen
Director, Sustainable Development Department, Africa Region, World
Bank
Ms. Andersen has just been appointed Director of the World Bank's
Sustainable Development Department for the Africa Region (the
department covers water supply and sanitation, water resource
management, energy, agriculture and rural development, environment,
urban development, transport, conflict prevention and social
development) . Prior to her Africa appointment, Ms. Andersen served
as Director of the Sustainable Development Department in the Middle
East and North Africa Region of the World Bank Group. She has also
held positions as Sector Manager in the Bank's Africa Urban and
Water Unit for West and Central Africa and as Sr. Water Resources
Specialist in the Africa Region, where she worked on large river
basins, including the Senegal, the Niger and the Nile River Basins.
Prior to joining the World Bank, Ms. Andersen held various positions
at United Nations Development Program,including managing environment
and water operations and policy dialogue in both Africa and the
Middle East regions. She has also worked in Sudan, where she
managed an NGO supporting drought, famine, and war relief and
rehabilitation in Sudan.

PRESENTED BY CO-EDITORS
Kulsum Ahmed
Lead Environmental Specialist, Environment Department, World Bank
Ms. Ahmed is a lead environmental specialist at the World Bank and
team leader for the environmental institutions and governance
program (which includes, among other activities, the SEA program)
and environmental-health program in the Environment Department. She
has considerable experience as an operations task manager and led
the team that prepared the Bank's first structural adjustment loan
to integrate environmental considerations in key sector's of a
country's economy. She is the World Bank's representative on the
OECD Development Assistance Committee's task team on strategic
environmental assessment. She has authored numerous publications on
energy, the environment, health, strategic assessment, and
industrial pollution.

Ernesto Sánchez-Triana
Senior Environmental Engineer, South Asia Sustainable Development
Department, World Bank
Mr. Sánchez-Triana is a senior environmental engineer in the World
Bank's South Asia Region. Before joining the Bank he taught at
Colombia's National University, managed the Special Division of
Environmental Policy in Colombia's Department of National Planning,
and worked at the Inter-American Development Bank. At the World
Bank, he has led the preparation of policy-based loans that aim to
incorporate environmental considerations into economic and sectoral
policies, as well as the conduction of comprehensive assessments to
identify and correct the institutional weaknesses that contribute to
environmental degradation. Mr. Sánchez-Triana is the author of
numerous publications on environmental and energy policy, political
economy, and the use of economic instruments for environmental
protection.

DISCUSSED BY
Harry Blair
Contributing Author and Lecturer in Political Science, Yale
University
Mr. Blair currently serves as Associate Chair, Senior Research
Scholar and Lecturer in Political Science at Yale University.
Previously he has held positions at Bucknell, Colgate, Columbia,
Cornell and Rutgers Universities. In his research and practical
work, he focused initially on agriculture and rural development
policy, shifting more into forestry and natural resource management
in the 1980s. Since the early 1990s, he has worked mainly in the
democracy and governance area, principally in the civil society and
decentralization sectors. Geographically, his field work and
writing include Eastern Europe, Latin America, and both South and
Southeast Asia. Dr. Blair served several years as senior advisor
with the United States Agency for International Development and has
worked as a short-term consultant for the Department for
International Development (UK), Ford Foundation, Swedish
International Development Cooperation Agency, United Nations
Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
Development Programme, and the World Bank. His recent writing can be
found at http://pantheon.yale.edu/~hb94.

Caroline Kende-Robb
Contributing Author and Sector Manager, Social Development
Department, World Bank
Prior to her current assignment, Ms. Kende-Robb was the first Social
Development Specialist recruited by the International Monetary Fund,
with the responsibility of promoting a greater poverty and social
development focus in Fund-supported programs. Ms. Kende-Robb also
has considerable work experience in the private sector, as well as
with non-governmental organizations. She has lived and worked in
West Africa for extensive periods of time. Ms. Kende-Robb has
published a book titled, Can the Poor Influence Policy?
Participatory Poverty Assessments in the Developing World.

Colin Bruce
Country Director, World Bank
Mr. Bruce, a Guyanese national, is Country Director for Comoros,
Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles and Somalia. In that capacity,
he has worked on many practical aspects of advancing governance
through country and sector strategies and programs. Previously, he
was Senior Manager for Policy Review and Dissemination in the
Operations Policy and Country Services Vice Presidency. One of the
first Strategic Environmental Assessment pilots, using the
conceptual framework described in the book, was carried out to
support implementation of the new Forest Law in Kenya.

Michael Stanley
Senior Mining Engineer, Oil, Gas and Mining, Joint World Bank and
IFC Department
Mr. Stanley, a Canadian national, is a senior mining engineer
(COCPO) with expertise in a) resource assessment, b) economics, and
c) policy issues in the mining sector. His work includes mineral
policy development through improved resource governance, mineral
resource development as a tool for achieving economic
sustainability, indigenous cultures and integrating local issues in
resource development. He is the Task Team Leader for mining
projects in Sierra Leone and Pakistan, co-Task Team Leader for the
Kosovo mining project, and a team member of the Afghanistan mining
project -- all projects where Strategic Environmental Assessment is
currently being undertaken. Prior to joining the World Bank, he
lead a series of major resource policy development projects and
supervised international exploration programs for precious and base
metals. He published numerous articles and papers on mining and
mineral resources.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation" discussed on Tuesday, June 17 at 10:00am in MC4-800

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World Bank Institute Global Programs
invite you to a book launch
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| pg) | in media and broadcasting policy and regulation |
| | and complements existing work in governance, |
| | public sector reform, and access to |
| | information. It is a useful tool for |
| | policymakers, reform managers, development |
| | practitioners, and students alike. |
| | |
| | With the guidance of this book, broadcasting |
| | policy and regulation can be tackled as a |
| | mainstream development topic, with important |
| | consequences for government transparency, |
| | government accountability, and enabling |
| | disadvantaged constituencies to voice their |
| | concerns and press for action. |
| | |
| | For more information, please click here. |
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
10:00am - 12:00 pm
World Bank Main Complex
MC4-800
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC
Refreshments will be served

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

INTRODUCED BY
Daniel Kaufmann
Director of Global Programs and Governance, World Bank Institute
Mr. Kaufmann is a leading expert, researcher, and adviser to
countries on governance and development and has pioneered new
approaches to analyze country governance as well as survey
methodologies and indicators for good governance and anti-corruption
programs around the world. He has previously held positions at the
World Bank which include managing a team on Finance, Regulation and
Governance, heading capacity building for Latin America, and also
serving as Lead Economist both in economies in transition as well as
in the Bank's research department. He is also a member of the World
Economic Forum (DAVOS) faculty.

MODERATED BY
Kreszentia Duer
New Business Development Leader, World Bank Institute
Ms. Duer manages a technical assistance program to strengthen
policies, institutions, and capacities for Civic Engagement,
Empowerment, and Respect for Diversity (CEERD) in developing
countries (worldbank.org/ceerd). Her thirty years of development
experience, leadership and management roles at the World Bank
include rural poverty, urban development, environment, social
development and education, in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and
Eastern Europe. She is a member of the International Editorial Board
of the journal, Policy Sciences.

PRESENTED BY AUTHORS
Steve Buckley
President, World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters
Managing Director, CM Solutions
Mr. Buckley is a communications policy expert and media development
advisor who has worked with governments, UN agencies and
non-governmental organizations. He has been President of the World
Association of Community Radio Broadcasters since 2003. He is also a
member of the International Council of IFEX. He has been a speaker
at numerous international conferences and events on media,
communications and development and has authored many related
reports, book chapters and policy papers including, among others,
for the UK Department for International Development, UNESCO, UN ICT
Task Force, the World Bank, Institute for Development Studies,
Social Science Research Council and the Ford Foundation.

Toby Mendel
Law/Asia Programmes Director, ARTICLE 19, Global Campaign for Free
Expression
Mr. Mendel is the author of numerous books and articles on issues
such as broadcasting, the right to information, defamation and other
freedom of expression issues. He has worked extensively on media
law issues in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, running
training seminars, advising governments and local NGOs, critiquing
laws and taking cases to both national and international courts.

Seán Ó Siochrú
Director, NEXUS Research, Dublin, Ireland
Chair, Dublin Community Television
Spokesperson, Campaign for Communication Rights in the Information
Society (CRIS)
Mr. Ó Siochrú has published many books, chapters and articles on
media and communication issues, and works with international
agencies and NGOs across the world. He has over twenty years
experience in international communications and media assessment,
regional economic issues, and local development activities. He was
also Secretary General and Treasurer of the MacBride Round Table on
Communications, which meets every year in a different country to
debate global communications issues.

Monroe Price
Director, Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School
for Communication, University of Pennsylvania Professor of Law,
Cardozo School of Law
Director, Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research, London
Mr. Price works with a wide transnational network of regulators,
scholars, and practitioners in Europe, Africa, Latin America and
Asia as well as in the United States. He has published several
books, chapters, and articles on media issues. His recent books
include ?Media and Sovereignty: The Global Information Revolution
and its Challenge to State Power? (MIT, 2002) and ?Owning the
Olympics: Narratives of the New China? (University of Michigan
Press, 2008, edited with Daniel Dayan).

Marc Raboy
Beaverbrook Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications and is a
Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Studies,
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Mr. Raboy has been a consultant to various international
organizations including the World Bank, UNESCO, the Council of
Europe and the European Broadcasting Union and is the author and
editor of numerous books and articles on media and communication
policy.

DISCUSSED BY
Eric Chinje
Manager, Africa Region External Affairs, World Bank
Mr. Chinje was Editor-in-Chief and News Anchor at the national
television in Cameroon, a journalism lecturer in the School of Mass
Communications (University of Cameroon), a contributing reporter to
CNN World Report, and a stringer for Deutschewelle (Voice of Germany
Radio), the BBC and Voice of America. He has written, published and
lectured on Media and Development in Africa. He is an Officer of the
Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau and of the Cameroon Order of Valour, an
Honorary Member of the Memphis City Council, a former Patron of the
Cameroon Friends of Nature Society, and a Board Member of the Rwanda
Foundation, the Women's Economic Empowerment Network(WEEN), and the
Zambia Orphans of AIDS (ZOA) committee.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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 - "Hospital Performance in Brazil: The Search for Excellence" launched TODAY at 3:00pm in J1-050

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& Human Development Department, Latin America and the Caribbean
Region

invite you to a launch of a recent World Bank publication followed
by a wine and cheese reception
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| | Brazilians. Hospitals are just as |
| Tuesday, May 27 | critical to the health of the |
| 3:00 - 5:00pm | government?s budget, absorbing nearly |
| World Bank J | 70 percent of public spending on |
| Building | health, and are thus at the forefront |
| Auditorium J1-050 | of policy discussions. Why hospitals |
| | are important is easy to understand. |
| For non Bank | What makes hospitals deliver quality |
| staff, please RSVP | care efficiently?or not?is much harder |
| to | to grasp. |
| infoshopevents@wor | |
| ldbank.org | Drawing on an eclectic array of |
| | research and evaluative studies |
| | selected from a mix of sources, |
| | Hospital Performance in Brazil: The |
| | Search for Excellence, analyzes |
| | Brazilian hospital performance along |
| | several policy dimensions, including |
| | resource allocation and use, payment |
| | mechanisms, organizational and |
| | governance arrangements, management |
| | practices, and regulation and quality. |
| | |
| | Although a few Brazilian hospitals are |
| | world-class centers of excellence, many |
| | hospitals, including those who serve |
| | Brazil?s poorest, are low performers. |
| | Yet the Brazilian hospital system is |
| | both dynamic and pluralistic, and |
| | herein lies its strengths. As is shown |
| | throughout the book, Brazil does not |
| | lack approaches, ideas, innovations, |
| | and initiatives for addressing the |
| | shortcomings of underperforming |
| | facilities. The foundations for change |
| | aimed at raising performance are |
| | present throughout the country?s |
| | hospital system. Building upon these |
| | foundations, an agenda for hospital |
| | reform is proposed that synthesizes |
| | policies and practices which are |
| | integral to improving hospital |
| | performance, and which should help |
| | policymakers and practitioners in their |
| | ?search for excellence.? |
| | |
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CHAIRED BY
Julian Schweitzer
Director, Health, Nutrition and Population Team, World Bank

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Jerry La Forgia
Lead Health Specialist, Human Development Department, Latin America and the
Caribbean Region

DISCUSSED BY
Maureen Lewis
Advisor, Office of Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank

Mukesh Chawla
Sector Manager, Health, Nutrition and Population Team, World Bank

John Briscoe
Country Director, Brazil, World Bank

Robert Murray
Executive Director, Health Services Cost Review Commission, State of
Maryland

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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