& DEC & Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries
Invite you to the launch of a recent Cambridge University Press
publication
|-------------------+----------------------------------------------|
| | |
| | |
| (Embedded | Terrorism, Economic Development, and |
| image moved to | Political Openness |
| file: | |
| pic24865.jpg) | To what extent are terrorism and |
| | development related? What are the relative |
| | weights of the economic, political, and |
| | social aspects of development? What is the |
| | development impact of different responses |
| | to terrorism? This volume addresses these |
| | crucial questions, synthesizing what we |
| | know about the development links with |
| | terrorism and pointing out what we do not. |
| | Contributors to this volume examine the |
| | economic and fiscal costs of terrorism and |
| | the response to terrorism. They conclude |
| | that the economic costs of terrorism in |
| | rich countries are low, relative to the |
| | economic costs of combating terrorism; |
| | both are likely high in poor countries. |
| | They also report evidence on how |
| | development affects terrorism. This work |
| | supports the hypothesis that political |
| | development ? political openness and the |
| | quality of government ? is inversely |
| | associated with the emergence of terrorist |
| | organizations, but not that poverty per se |
| | is directly responsible for terrorism. |
| | |
| | For more information and to order the |
| | book, please click here. |
| | |
| | |
|-------------------+----------------------------------------------|
Monday, June 16
12:00 - 2:00pm
World Bank Main Complex
Preston Auditorium
1818 H Steeet, NW
Washington, DC
For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org
CHAIR
Sarah Cliffe
Director, Office of the Vice President, East Asia and Pacific, World
Bank
Ms. Cliffe joined the Bank in 1996. She has worked on economic
reconstruction, governance and poverty reduction initiatives in
several post-conflict countries. Prior to joining the Bank, she
worked for the UN Development Program in Rwanda, the Government of
South Africa, and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, as
well as for a major management consultancy company in the United
Kingdom on public sector reform issues. Since joining the Bank, her
work has covered poverty reduction strategies in Ethiopia, Rwanda
and Burundi and anti-corruption initiatives in Indonesia. She was
chief of mission for the Bank's program in East Timor from 1999 to
2002 and then moved to become the coordinator for the Bank's
initiative for low-income countries under stress, which aims to
improve the Bank's effectiveness in countries which have suffered
prolonged conflict or governance problems. She is now the Director
for Strategy and Operations in the World Bank's East Asia and the
Pacific Vice Presidency.
PRESENTERS
Philip Keefer
Lead Research Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Keefer has worked continuously on the interaction of
institutions, political economy and economic development. His
research has included investigations of the impact of insecure
property rights on economic growth; the effect of political
credibility on the policy choices of governments and the
vulnerability of countries to civil war; and the sources of
political credibility in democracies and autocracies. It has
appeared in journals that span economics and political science,
ranging from the Quarterly Journal of Economics to the American
Review of Political Science and drawn on research and advisory
activities in a wide range of countries, including Bangladesh,
Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, México, Perú, Pakistan
and the Philippines.
Norman Loayza
Lead economist, Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Loayza has worked at the research group of the World Bank, with
an interruption of two years (1999-2000) when he worked as senior
economist at the Central Bank of Chile. Throughout his professional
life, Norman has studied several areas related to economic and
social development, including economic growth, private saving,
financial depth, monetary policy, trade openness, poverty
alleviation, crime prevention, and social conflict. As result from
this research, he has edited five books and published more than
thirty articles in professional journals.
DISCUSSANT
Francis Fukuyama
Professor of International Political Economy and Director of SAIS'
International Development program, Johns Hopkins University
Chairman of the editorial board, The American Interest
Mr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues relating to questions
concerning political and economic development. He was a member of
the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation from
1979-1980, then again from 1983-89, and from 1995-96. In 1981-82
and in 1989 he was a member of the Policy Planning Staff of the US
Department of State, the first time as a regular member specializing
in Middle East affairs, and then as Deputy Director for European
political-military affairs. In 1981-82 he was also a member of the
US delegation to the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy.
From 1996-2000 he was a Professor at the School of Public Policy at
George Mason University. Mr. Fukuyama was a member of the
President?s Council on Bioethics from 2001-2005. He is a member of
the Board of Trustees of the Rand Corporation, of the Board of
Governors of the Pardee Rand Graduate School, and of the advisory
boards for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the Journal
of Democracy, the Inter-American Dialogue, The New America
Foundation, and FINCA. As an NED board member, he is responsible for
oversight of the Endowment?s Middle East programs.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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:
