REMINDER: "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)

Attendees will receive a free trial of the Dictionary?s online edition, other
free giveaways, and be eligible for a raffle drawing for a complete set of The
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.

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.

MODERATED BY
Laurie Harting
Executive Editor, Economics & Business, Palgrave Macmillan
Ms. Harting is an executive editor with Palgrave Macmillan specializing in
economics and business. She has been working in the world of publishing for
over 20 years and has worked on several best-selling and important works
including Soros on Soros, Great People Decisions, and forthcoming title Morals
and Markets. Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic publisher, serving
learning and scholarship in higher education and the professional world.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: "New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics" on Thursday, June 26, at 12:00pm in J1-050

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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

Attendees will receive a free trial of the Dictionary?s online
edition, other free giveaways, and be eligible for a raffle drawing
for a complete set of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.

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
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.

MODERATED BY
Laurie Harting
Executive Editor, Economics & Business, Palgrave Macmillan
Ms. Harting is an executive editor with Palgrave Macmillan
specializing in economics and business. She has been working in the
world of publishing for over 20 years and has worked on several
best-selling and important works including Soros on Soros, Great
People Decisions, and forthcoming title Morals and Markets.
Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic publisher, serving learning
and scholarship in higher education and the professional world.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: "Global Democracy: The Struggle for Political and Civil Rights in the 21st Century" discussed on Wednesday, June 25, at the World Bank

The World Bank InfoShop, Civil Society Team, and Oxfam America

invite you to a panel discussion on a recent Vanderbilt University Press
publication

Global Democracy: The Struggle for Political and Civil Rights in the 21st
Century

From trade agreements to a new treaty on climate change, from UN sanctions
against Iran's nuclear program to peacekeeping in Darfur, global public policy
increasingly affects people's lives and has become too important to bypass the
democratic process. Global institutions designed to be controlled by a powerful
few are grinding to a halt as the global landscape of power shifts.

Global Democracy sets a vision for global governance rooted in the realities of
the 21st century. After centuries of struggles for political equality by the
working class, women or ethnic minorities, it is time for nationals of poor and
emerging countries to achieve political equality with Westerners in world
affairs.

This is a book that everyone interested in creating a better world should read,
discuss, and act upon.
- Peter Singer, Princeton University

Didier Jacobs reminds us that institutions matter, and that the concept of
political equality is as relevant at the global level as it is at the national
level.
- David Held, London School of Economics

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
Light lunch and book signing to follow
World Bank J Building
Auditorium JB1-080
701 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC

For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org
(Please include full names of all attendees and name of event in your message.)

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Didier Jacobs
Special Advisor to the President, Oxfam America
Mr. Jacobs is Special Advisor to the President at Oxfam America, and was
formerly a researcher at the London School of Economics and Catholic University
of Louvain. He also was an aid worker for Médecins Sans Frontières in Liberia
during the civil war.

DISCUSSED BY
Ann Florini
Visiting Professor and Director, Centre on Asia and Globalization, Lee Kuan Yew
School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore and
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Program, Brookings Institution
Ms. Florini is Visiting Professor and Director of the Centre on Asia and
Globalization at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National
University of Singapore. She is also Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies
Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. Ms. Florini is
internationally recognized as an authority on new approaches to global
governance, focusing on the roles of civil society and the private sector in
addressing global issues. Currently, she is examining governance in the energy
sector.

Amar Bhattacharya
Director, G-24 Secretariat
Mr. Bhattacharya is Director of the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Group
of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development. The G24
Secretariat serves the G24 Finance Ministers and their officials in the
deliberations and work program of the Group. Prior to taking up his current
position, Mr. Bhattacharya had a long-standing career in the World Bank. In his
last position, he was advisor to the President and Senior Management on the
Bank?s engagement with key international groupings and institutions including on
issues of global governance and reform of aid as well as international financial
architecture.

MODERATED BY
John Garrison
Senior Civil Society Specialist, Civil Society Team, World Bank
Mr. Garrison joined the World Bank in 1996 as a Civil Society Specialist. He
spent the first five years working in the Bank?s office in Brasilia, Brazil
where he carried out applied research, organized outreach activities, and
helped supervise Bank projects, all related to improving World Bank?civil
society relations. In 2002 he joined the Bank?s Civil Society Team (CST).
Current activities include working to formulate Bank-wide strategy, providing
advice to senior management, reaching out to international civil society
networks, and disseminating information on the Bank.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About Oxfam America
Oxfam America is an international relief and development organization that
creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger and injustice. Together with
individuals and local groups in more than 120 countries, Oxfam saves lives,
helps people overcome poverty, and fights social injustice. To join our efforts
or learn more, go to www.oxfamamerica.org.

About the Civil Society Team
The Global Civil Society Team serves as the institutional and global focal point
for the Bank?s engagement with civil society. As such, the CST formulates
institutional strategy, provides advice to senior management, provides guidance
and technical assistance to program staff on how to consult and involve civil
society in Bank operations, and undertakes ongoing outreach efforts to global
civil society.

www.worldbank.org/civilsociety

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: "Global Democracy: The Struggle for Political and Civil Rights in the 21st Century" discussed on Wednesday, June 25, at 12:00 pm in JB1-080

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invite you to a panel discussion on a recent Vanderbilt University
Press publication
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| | |
| For more| From trade agreements to a new treaty on|
| information and to| climate change, from UN sanctions against|
| order a copy of the| Iran's nuclear program to peacekeeping in|
| book, click here. | Darfur, global public policy increasingly|
| | affects people's lives and has become too|
| | important to bypass the democratic|
| | process. Global institutions designed to|
| | be controlled by a powerful few are|
| | grinding to a halt as the global landscape|
| | of power shifts. |
| | |
| | Global Democracy sets a vision for global|
| | governance rooted in the realities of the|
| | 21st century. After centuries of struggles|
| | for political equality by the working|
| | class, women or ethnic minorities, it is|
| | time for nationals of poor and emerging|
| | countries to achieve political equality|
| | with Westerners in world affairs. |
| | |
| | This is a book that everyone interested in|
| | creating a better world should read,|
| | discuss, and act upon. |
| | - Peter Singer, Princeton University |
| | |
| | Didier Jacobs reminds us that institutions|
| | matter, and that the concept of political|
| | equality is as relevant at the global|
| | level as it is at the national level. |
| | - David Held, London School of Economics |
| | |
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
Light lunch and book signing to follow
World Bank J Building
Auditorium JB1-080
701 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC

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

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Didier Jacobs
Special Advisor to the President, Oxfam America
Mr. Jacobs is Special Advisor to the President at Oxfam America, and
was formerly a researcher at the London School of Economics and
Catholic University of Louvain. He also was an aid worker for
Médecins Sans Frontières in Liberia during the civil war.

DISCUSSED BY
Ann Florini
Visiting Professor and Director, Centre on Asia and Globalization,
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,
National University of Singapore and
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Program, Brookings Institution
Ms. Florini is Visiting Professor and Director of the Centre on Asia
and Globalization at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the
National University of Singapore. She is also Senior Fellow in the
Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution in
Washington, DC. Ms. Florini is internationally recognized as an
authority on new approaches to global governance, focusing on the
roles of civil society and the private sector in addressing global
issues. Currently, she is examining governance in the energy sector.

Amar Bhattacharya
Director, G-24 Secretariat
Mr. Bhattacharya is Director of the Secretariat of the
Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary
Affairs and Development. The G24 Secretariat serves the G24 Finance
Ministers and their officials in the deliberations and work program
of the Group. Prior to taking up his current position, Mr.
Bhattacharya had a long-standing career in the World Bank. In his
last position, he was advisor to the President and Senior Management
on the Bank?s engagement with key international groupings and
institutions including on issues of global governance and reform of
aid as well as international financial architecture.

MODERATED BY
John Garrison
Senior Civil Society Specialist, Civil Society Team, World Bank
Mr. Garrison joined the World Bank in 1996 as a Civil Society
Specialist. He spent the first five years working in the Bank?s
office in Brasilia, Brazil where he carried out applied research,
organized outreach activities, and helped supervise Bank projects,
all related to improving World Bank?civil society relations. In
2002 he joined the Bank?s Civil Society Team (CST). Current
activities include working to formulate Bank-wide strategy,
providing advice to senior management, reaching out to international
civil society networks, and disseminating information on the Bank.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About Oxfam America
Oxfam America is an international relief and development
organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger and
injustice. Together with individuals and local groups in more than
120 countries, Oxfam saves lives, helps people overcome poverty, and
fights social injustice. To join our efforts or learn more, go to

www.oxfamamerica.org.

About the Civil Society Team
The Global Civil Society Team serves as the institutional and global
focal point for the Bank?s engagement with civil society. As such,
the CST formulates institutional strategy, provides advice to senior
management, provides guidance and technical assistance to program
staff on how to consult and involve civil society in Bank
operations, and undertakes ongoing outreach efforts to global civil
society.

www.worldbank.org/civilsociety

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

Striking a Balance: Work, Family, Life - discussed on Tuesday, June 24th, at the World Bank InfoShop

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invite you to a panel discussion and a lunch reception
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| Tuesday, June 24 | Work-life balance is continually raised |
| 12:00 - 2:00 pm | as an issue by Bank staff. With the goal |
| World Bank J | of promoting a more family-friendly World |
| Building | Bank, the Family Issues Group of the |
| Auditorium | Staff Association invites you to the |
| J1-050 | first of their speakers series. Dr. |
| 701 18th Street, | Drago, a professor of labor studies and |
| NW | women's studies at Pennsylvania State |
| Washington, DC | University at University Park, is a |
| | well-known researcher in the field of |
| | work-life balance, and his most recent |
| | book, Striking a Balance: Work, Family, |
| | Life, outlines the challenges affecting |
| | women in the workplace, especially where |
| | work and family-life collide. His work on |
| | "bias avoidance" explores why -- even |
| | when family-friendly policies are |
| | available in the workplace -- both men |
| | and women tend to shun the use of these |
| | policies so as to avoid stigma. |
| | |
| | Dr. Drago is Professor of Labor Studies |
| | and Women's Studies at Penn State |
| | University professorial Fellow at the |
| | University of Melbourne, and co-founder |
| | and chair of the Take Care Net . His |
| | research, concerns time use among parents |
| | of infants, working time flexibility, |
| | biases against caregiving in the academic |
| | workplace, the decline of women in |
| | intercollegiate coaching, and public |
| | policies for working families. He is a |
| | frequent contributor to major media |
| | outlets, including the HuffingtonPost, |
| | and has provided Congressional Briefings |
| | sponsored by Senators Clinton, Kennedy, |
| | and Obama, among others. |
| | |
| |

http://www.worldbank.org/infoshop

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

MODERATED BY
Ann Jeannette Glauber
Co-Chair of the Staff Association's Family Issues Working Group
Environmental Specialist, LCSEN

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Dr. Robert Drago

DISCUSSANTS
Helen Diaz
Manager, HRSTS

Geremie Sawadogo
Program Manager, HRSGM

Khaled F. Sherif
Chief Admin. Officer, AFTRM
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

TODAY - InfoShop Grand Opening - Monday June 23rd, 2008

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The Office of the Publisher

Proudly present our newly renovated Public Information Center /
Bookstore
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| | you are cordially invited to the grand |
| | opening celebration on June 23rd. Please |
| | join us for food, drinks, and giveaways. |
| | Bring in a print out of this invitation |
| | before June 28th |
| | and receive a free copy of |
| | Our Dream: A World Free of Poverty |
| | with your purchase of $50 or more (while |
| | supplies last). |
| | |
| | For more information about InfoShop's |
| | improvements, click here |
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http://www.worldbank.org/infoshop

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Monday, June 23
3:00 - 5:00pm
World Bank InfoShop
Corner of 18th & Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, DC

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

OPENING REMARKS BY
Carlos Rossel
Acting Publisher
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
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