POSTPONED: "Youth at Risk" discussed at the World Bank

This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for September 2008.

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The InfoShop, Children & Youth Unit of the World Bank, and Y2Y Community

invite you to a joint launch of two recent publications on

Thursday, June 19, 2008
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Light refreshments will be served
World Bank J Building - 701 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC
Auditorium J1-050
Please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org (Provide full name of all attendees
and name of event)

Youth at Risk in Latin America and the Caribbean: Understanding the Causes,
Realizing the Potential
Young people are often perceived as the source of many problems plaguing the
Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region today, but there is little
understanding of the extent, nature, or policy response to the problems. The
book attempts to fill this knowledge gap by estimating the size of the at-risk
youth population in LAC, measuring the impact of negative youth behaviors on the
region's economic growth, and identifying a small set of factors that are
responsible for at-risk behavior. Based on this information, the book presents
policies and programs that world renowned youth development experts deem to be
the basis of a quality youth development portfolio in LAC countries and several
strategies to create such a portfolio within a budget-constrained environment.
For more information and to order a copy of the book, visit:
http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=8303992

Supporting Youth at Risk: A Policy Toolkit for Middle-Income Countries
In response to a growing demand from government clients and partners for advice
on how to create and implement effective policies for at-risk youth, Supporting
Youth at Risk highlights 27 policies and strategies that have been effective in
addressing key risk areas for young people around the world:
* Youth unemployment and underemployment
* Early school leaving
* Risky sexual behavior leading to early childbearing and HIV/AIDS
* Crime and violence
* Substance abuse

The objective of the Toolkit is to serve as a practical guide for policy makers
in middle-income countries?as well as professionals working within the area of
youth development?on how to develop and implement an effective policy portfolio
to foster healthy and positive youth development.
For more information, visit:
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTCY/0,,contentMDK:21733040~menuPK:4709856~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:396445,00.html

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

INTRODUCED BY
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Phumaphi is Vice President for Human Development at the World Bank. Before
joining the Bank, she worked at the World Health Organization as the Assistant
Director General for Family and Community Health Department, managing a staff of
over 1100 globally. Ms. Phumaphi also served as Minister for Health in Botswana
where she restructured the ministry to make it more focused on results while
overseeing revision of the Public Health Act and putting into action a
multi-sectoral plan to combat HIV/AIDS. She is in the Board of GAVI and has
served as a member of the UN Reference Group on Economics and a UN Commissioner
on HIV/AIDS and Governance. She is a member of the UNDP advisory board for
Africa and the AAI.

PRESENTED BY AUTHORS
Wendy Cunningham
Lead Specialist, Children and Youth Unit, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Cunningham is the Coordinator of the Children and Youth (C&Y) Unit at the
World Bank. Before joining C&Y, she was a Senior Economist in the Human
Development Department and Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Department
in the World Bank's Latin America and Caribbean Region where she led projects
and research in the areas of social protection and labor markets and worked to
develop the region's agenda for youth development and gender. A labor
economist, her published works are in the areas of labor market programs,
informal sector employment, gender, and youth development.

Sophie Naudeau
Human Development Specialist, Children and Youth Unit, Human Development
Network, World Bank
Ms. Naudeau is a Child and Youth Development Specialist. Since joining the
World Bank in 2005, her work has focused on analyzing the opportunities and
challenges that children and youth face in various regions, developing tools and
implementing projects that respond to the specific needs of this population, and
designing impact evaluations of early childhood programs. Her recent work has
focused on Egypt, Indonesia, Mozambique, Morocco, and Cambodia. Prior to
joining the Bank, Ms. Naudeau was the coordinator for programs targeting refugee
children and youth in post conflict societies, including Bosnia, Guinea, Sierra
Leone, and Cambodia.

DISCUSSED BY
Chingboon Lee
Sector Leader, Caribbean Country Management Unit, World Bank
Ms. Lee is the Sector Leader for the Human Development program in the Caribbean
Country Management Unit at the World Bank. Prior to joining the Bank?s Latin
America and the Caribbean Region, Ms. Lee?s work focused on education issues in
China and Bangladesh. She also served as Deputy Resident Representative for the
United Nations Development Program from 1994 ? 1998, and was a teaching and
research fellow at Harvard University.

MODERATED BY
Makhtar Diop
Director of Strategy and Operations, Latin America and the Caribbean Region,
World Bank
Mr. Diop is the Director for Strategy and Operations of the Latin America and
the Caribbean Region. Prior to that he was the Sector Director for Finance,
Private Sector and Infrastructure in the Latin America Region and held the
position of Country Director of Kenya, Eritrea, and Somalia for the World Bank.
Before joining the World Bank, Mr. Diop worked at the IMF, served as Minister of
Economy and Finance in Senegal, and held various positions in banking and
finance.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

POSTPONED: "Youth at Risk" discussion

This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for September.

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INVITE YOU TO A JOINT LAUNCH OF TWO RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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| Youth at Risk in Latin | Supporting Youth at Risk |
| America and the Caribbean | A Policy Toolkit for |
| Understanding the Causes, | Middle-Income Countries |
| Realizing the Potential | |
| | |
| | In response to a growing |
| Young people are often | demand from government clients |
| perceived as the source of | and partners for advice on how |
| many problems plaguing the | to create and implement |
| Latin America and Caribbean | effective policies for at-risk |
| (LAC) region today, but | youth, Supporting Youth at |
| there is little | Risk highlights 27 policies |
| understanding of the | and strategies that have been |
| extent, nature, or policy | effective in addressing key |
| response to the problems. | risk areas for young people |
| The book attempts to fill | around the world: |
| this knowledge gap by | Youth unemployment and |
| estimating the size of the | underemployment |
| at-risk youth population in | Early school leaving |
| LAC, measuring the impact | Risky sexual behavior |
| of negative youth behaviors | leading to early |
| on the region's economic | childbearing and HIV/AIDS |
| growth, and identifying a | Crime and violence |
| small set of factors that | Substance abuse |
| are responsible for at-risk | |
| behavior. Based on this | The objective of the Toolkit |
| information, the book | is to serve as a practical |
| presents policies and | guide for policy makers in |
| programs that world | middle-income countries?as |
| renowned youth development | well as professionals working |
| experts deem to be the | within the area of youth |
| basis of a quality youth | development?on how to develop |
| development portfolio in | and implement an effective |
| LAC countries and several | policy portfolio to foster |
| strategies to create such a | healthy and positive youth |
| portfolio within a | development. |
| budget-constrained | |
| environment. | |
| | Click here for more |
| | information |
| Click here for more | |
| information and to order a | |
| copy of the book | |
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Thursday, June 19
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Light refreshments will be served
World Bank J Building
Auditorium J1-050
701 18th Street, NW

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

INTRODUCED BY
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Phumaphi is Vice President for Human Development at the World
Bank. Before joining the Bank, she worked at the World Health
Organization as the Assistant Director General for Family and
Community Health Department, managing a staff of over 1100 globally.
Ms. Phumaphi also served as Minister for Health in Botswana where
she restructured the ministry to make it more focused on results
while overseeing revision of the Public Health Act and putting into
action a multi-sectoral plan to combat HIV/AIDS. She is in the Board
of GAVI and has served as a member of the UN Reference Group on
Economics and a UN Commissioner on HIV/AIDS and Governance. She is
a member of the UNDP advisory board for Africa and the AAI.

PRESENTED BY AUTHORS
Wendy Cunningham
Lead Specialist, Children and Youth Unit, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Cunningham is the Coordinator of the Children and Youth (C&Y)
Unit at the World Bank. Before joining C&Y, she was a Senior
Economist in the Human Development Department and Poverty Reduction
and Economic Management Department in the World Bank's Latin America
and Caribbean Region where she led projects and research in the
areas of social protection and labor markets and worked to develop
the region's agenda for youth development and gender. A labor
economist, her published works are in the areas of labor market
programs, informal sector employment, gender, and youth development.

Sophie Naudeau
Human Development Specialist, Children and Youth Unit, Human
Development Network, World Bank
Ms. Naudeau is a Child and Youth Development Specialist. Since
joining the World Bank in 2005, her work has focused on analyzing
the opportunities and challenges that children and youth face in
various regions, developing tools and implementing projects that
respond to the specific needs of this population, and designing
impact evaluations of early childhood programs. Her recent work has
focused on Egypt, Indonesia, Mozambique, Morocco, and Cambodia.
Prior to joining the Bank, Ms. Naudeau was the coordinator for
programs targeting refugee children and youth in post conflict
societies, including Bosnia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia.

DISCUSSED BY
Chingboon Lee
Sector Leader, Caribbean Country Management Unit, World Bank
Ms. Lee is the Sector Leader for the Human Development program in
the Caribbean Country Management Unit at the World Bank. Prior to
joining the Bank?s Latin America and the Caribbean Region, Ms. Lee?s
work focused on education issues in China and Bangladesh. She also
served as Deputy Resident Representative for the United Nations
Development Program from 1994 ? 1998, and was a teaching and
research fellow at Harvard University.

MODERATED BY
Makhtar Diop
Director of Strategy and Operations, Latin America and the Caribbean Region,
World Bank
Mr. Diop is the Director for Strategy and Operations of the Latin
America and the Caribbean Region. Prior to that he was the Sector
Director for Finance, Private Sector and Infrastructure in the Latin
America Region and held the position of Country Director of Kenya,
Eritrea, and Somalia for the World Bank. Before joining the World
Bank, Mr. Diop worked at the IMF, served as Minister of Economy and
Finance in Senegal, and held various positions in banking and
finance.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics" discussed on Thursday, June 26, at the World Bank

The World Bank InfoShop and Office of the Publisher

INVITE YOU TO A PANEL DISCUSSION ON

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics is the first revision in 21 years of
what has been the standard reference book for economists since its foundation by
Sir R. H. Inglis Palgrave in 1894. The eight volumes of the new dictionary
contain 1,872 signed articles by 1506 of the world?s leading economists,
including 25 Nobel Prize winners. Together the articles provide an unrivalled
snapshot of modern economics.

The huge expansion of economics over the past 21 years has made updating The New
Palgrave a daunting task. In the words of the Editors, Steven Durlauf and
Lawrence Blume, ?Since the appearance of the last edition of The New Palgrave in
1987, the discipline of economics has grown enormously both in analytical and
technical sophistication and in the scope of the subject.?

Over the past 21 years economic research has expanded its domain of enquiry so
that it covers virtually every area of social life. Information technology has
facilitated the collection of huge datasets to which economic analysis and
modelling can be applied with increasingly diverse applications. As the articles
in the revised Dictionary show, economics is everywhere ? in the kitchen,
boardroom, classroom, newsroom, and even in the bedroom.

?The ideas of economists are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed
the world is ruled by little else.?
? John Maynard Keynes

?The New Palgrave will be an indispensable reference tool for scholars in
economics and perhaps even more for the journalist or business executive. The
topics are exhaustive.?
? Kenneth J. Arrow, Nobel Prize Winner in Economics

For more information, please visit: www.dictionaryofeconomics.com

Thursday, June 26
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank "J" Building
Auditorium J1-050
701 18th Street NW, Washington, DC

For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org (Provide full
name of all attendees and name of event)

EVENT PROGRAM

PRESENTED BY EDITOR
Steven Durlauf
Kenneth J. Arrow Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin
Mr. Durlauf is the Kenneth J. Arrow Professor of Economics at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison. He has served as Co-Director of the Economics Program at
the Santa Fe Institute for which he currently serves as a Science Board and
external faculty member. A Fellow of the Econometric Society, Durlauf's research
covers a range of topics in macroeconomics, econometrics, and income inequality.

DISCUSSED BY CONTRIBUTORS
Shanta Devarajan
Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank
Mr. Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the Africa Region at the World Bank.
Since joining the Bank in 1991, he has been a Principal Economist and Research
Manager for Public Economics in the Development Research Group, as well as the
Chief Economist of the Human Development Network and South Asia Region. He was
the Director of the World Development Report 2004, Making Services Work for Poor
People. Before 1991, he was on the faculty of Harvard University?s John F.
Kennedy School of Government. The author or co-author of over 100 publications,
his research covers public economics, trade policy, natural resources and the
environment, and general-equilibrium modeling of developing countries.

Additional Discussant to Be Confirmed

MODERATED BY
Laurie Harting
Editor, Economics, Business & Management, Palgrave Macmillan
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics" discussed on Thursday, June 26, at 12:00pm in J1-050

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INVITE YOU TO A PANEL DISCUSSION
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| Databases page. | its domain of enquiry so that |
| | it covers virtually every area |
| | of social life. Information |
| | technology has facilitated the |
| | collection of huge datasets to |
| | which economic analysis and |
| | modelling can be applied with |
| | increasingly diverse |
| | applications. As the articles |
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| | show, economics is everywhere |
| | ? in the kitchen, boardroom, |
| | classroom, newsroom, and even |
| | in the bedroom. |
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Thursday, June 26
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building
Auditorium J1-050
701 18th Street NW

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

PRESENTED BY EDITOR
Steven Durlauf
Kenneth J. Arrow Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin
Mr. Durlauf is the Kenneth J. Arrow Professor of Economics at the
University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has served as Co-Director of
the Economics Program at the Santa Fe Institute for which he
currently serves as a Science Board and external faculty member. A
Fellow of the Econometric Society, Durlauf's research covers a range
of topics in macroeconomics, econometrics, and income inequality.

DISCUSSED BY CONTRIBUTORS
Shanta Devarajan
Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank
Mr. Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the Africa Region at the
World Bank. Since joining the Bank in 1991, he has been a Principal
Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the
Development Research Group, as well as the Chief Economist of the
Human Development Network and South Asia Region. He was the
Director of the World Development Report 2004, Making Services Work
for Poor People. Before 1991, he was on the faculty of Harvard
University?s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The author or
co-author of over 100 publications, his research covers public
economics, trade policy, natural resources and the environment, and
general-equilibrium modeling of developing countries.

Additional Discussant to Be Confirmed

MODERATED BY
Laurie Harting
Editor, Economics, Business & Management, Palgrave Macmillan
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: Launch of "The World Trade Indicators" on Tuesday, June 17 at 12:00pm at the World Bank in J1-050

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A buffet lunch will be served

Non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.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: Extract from the EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.doc)

REMINDER: Launch of "The World Trade Indicators" on Tuesday, June 17 at 12:00pm in J1-050

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cordially invite you to the launch of
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| | improve policies and institutions |
| | supporting trade integration in the |
| Tuesday, June 17 | global economy. Countries that have |
| 12:00 - 1:30 pm | the best policies and institutions |
| World Bank J Building | also tend to have stronger and more |
| Auditorium J1-050 | consistent trade and export |
| 701 18th St. NW | performance. |
| A buffet lunch will | |
| be served | The World Trade Indicators (WTI) |
| | 2008 database and ranking tool |
| | allows benchmarking and comparisons |
| | of countries and customs territories |
| | across trade-related indicators and |
| | will help policymakers and |
| | researchers analyze the key |
| | at-the-border and behind-the-border |
| | factors affecting the trade |
| | peformance of countries and regions. |
| | Drawing from international databases |
| | and including some new measures of |
| | trade policy and performance, the |
| | user-friendly WTI database makes it |
| | possible?for the first time?to rank |
| | countries and compare their |
| | performance on all policy and |
| | institutional dimensions, namely |
| | trade policy, the external |
| | environment, institutions and |
| | business climate, and trade |
| | facilitation, that economists |
| | believe affect trade and export |
| | performance. |
| | |
| | Trade briefs and Trade-at-a-Glance |
| | (TAAG) tables capture the main |
| | findings at the country level from |
| | the database and the analytical work |
| | of relevant international |
| | orgzanizations. The WTI 2008 |
| | publication summarizes patterns and |
| | trends in trade policies and |
| | institutions as well as trade |
| | outcomes revealed by the database |
| | across countries, regions and income |
| | groups. An extract from its |
| | Executive Summary is attached below. |
| | |
| | The WTI website will be available on |
| | June 17 at: |
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www.worldbank.org/wti2008

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CHAIR
Rakesh Nangia
Acting Vice President, World Bank Institute
Mr. Nangia is the World Bank Institute?s (WBI) Acting Vice President
and Director of Operations. The latter position he assumed in
September 2006 and he was appointed Acting Vice President of WBI in
March 2007. In his more than 20 years in the World Bank, Mr.
Nangia?s career has spanned a wide range of countries and positions,
including development work in Africa, East Asia, Eastern Europe and
South Asia, as well as in the Bank's Corporate Secretariat and
Central Accounting group. Prior to his current position, Mr. Nangia
served as Manager, Portfolio and Country Operations, in Vietnam.

OPENING REMARKS
Ngozi N. Okonjo-Iweala
Managing Director, World Bank
From June to August 2006, she was Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Nigeria. From July 2003 to June 2006 she served as Minister of
Finance and Economy of Nigeria and Head of Nigeria's much acclaimed
Presidential Economic team. Previously, she pursued a 21-year career
as a development economist at the World Bank, where she held the
post of Vice President and Corporate Secretary. This included two
tours of duty working in the East Asia Region, the last tour as
Country Director Malaysia, Mongolia, Laos and Cambodia during the
East Asian financial crisis; two duty tours in the Middle East
Region, the last as Director, Operations (deputy vice-president) of
the region. Ms. Okonjo-Iweala also served as Director of
Institutional Change and Strategy. From 1989 to 1991 she was Special
assistant to the Senior Vice President, Operations. She has received
numerous awards, and is a member or chair of numerous boards and
advisory groups. Ms. Okonjo-Iweala was the founder of the first ever
indigenous opinion research organization in Nigeria (NOI Polls) in
partnership with the Gallup organization, which strives to
strengthen democracy and accountability in Nigeria. She was
co-founder of the Makeda Fund, a US$50 million private equity fund
designed to invest in women-owned and women-influenced small and
medium enterprises in Africa.

PRESENTERS
Roumeen Islam
Manager, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank
Institute
Prior to joining WBI, Ms. Islam was Staff Director of the World
Bank's World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for
Markets. She was advisor to the Chief Economist and Senior Vice
President in the Bank's Development Economics group. Ms. Islam has
also worked in World Bank Operations in several regions. Her
professional expertise includes public expenditure rationalization,
fiscal stability, growth strategies, trade and exchange rate issues,
sovereign debt rationalization, financial sector reform, and private
sector development.

Gianni Zanini
Lead Economist, World Bank Institute
Since late 2002, Mr. Zanini has led the WBI?s trade team, working on
capacity building and external training programs in trade policy
reform and in the multilateral, regional, and bilateral trade
agreements and negotiations. He has more than 21 years experience
at the World Bank, first as a country economist and then as an
evaluator of the performance of adjustment operations and country
assistance programs. Prior to working at the World Bank, he taught
macroeconomics at the University of California, Davis, and worked as
business staff writer for some of Italy's major news magazines.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: Extract from the EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.doc)

REMINDER: "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

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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