REMINDER: "The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education" discussed on April 29 at 12 PM in J1-050

(Embedded image moved to file: pic26434.jpg)

CHAIR
Elizabeth King
Director of Education, World Bank
Ms. King is Director of Education in the Human Development Network
of the World Bank. She is the Bank's senior spokesperson for global
policy and strategic education issues in developing countries. Until
January 2009, she was a manager in the Bank's research department,
heading the team that focuses on human development issues. She has
published on topics such as household investments in human capital;
the linkages between education, poverty and economic development;
gender issues in development, especially women's education;
education finance, and the impact of decentralization reforms. Since
joining the Bank, she has contributed to public expenditure reviews,
country economic assessments, policy analyses of the human
development sectors, and impact evaluations of policies and
programs. She was the Lead Economist for the World Bank's human
development department for East Asian countries for three years, and
served as co-author of three World Development Reports.

AUTHOR
Harry Anthony Patrinos
Lead Education Economist, World Bank
Mr. Patrinos is Lead Education Economist at the World Bank. He
specializes in all areas of education, especially school-based
management, demand-side financing, and public-private partnerships.
He managed education lending operations and analytical work programs
in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico, as well as a regional research
project on the socioeconomic status of Latin America?s Indigenous
Peoples, published as Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human
Development in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). He is one
of the main authors of the report, Lifelong Learning in the Global
Knowledge Economy (World Bank, 2003). Mr. Patrinos has many
publications in the academic and policy literature, with more than
40 journal articles. He is co-author of the books: Policy Analysis
of Child Labor: A Comparative Study, Decentralization of Education:
Demand-Side Financing, and Indigenous People and Poverty in Latin
America: An Empirical Analysis with George Psacharopoulos.

DISCUSSANTS
Paul Peterson
Professor of Government, Harvard University
Mr. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and
Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at
Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at
Stanford University, and Editor-In-Chief of Education Next, a
journal of opinion and research on education policy. Mr. Peterson
is the author or editor of over one hundred articles and
thirty-five-plus books, including his most recent title School
Choice International: Exploring Public-Private Partnerships (MIT,
2009). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
and the National Academy of Education. Mr. Peterson is a member of
the independent review panel advising the Department of Education?s
evaluation of the No Child Left Behind law. The Editorial Projects
in Education Research Center reported that Peterson?s studies on
school choice and vouchers were among the country?s most influential
studies of education policy.

Tim Emmett
Development Director, CfBT Education Trust
Mr. Emmett is Development Director at CfBT Education Trust and a
specialist in the design and delivery of PPPs as part of school
system reform programmes. CfBT Education Trust is one of the world's
leading international not-for-profit education services companies
with a turnover of £140 million sterling. CfBT implements major
reform programmes for governments; designs and implements school
inspection and evaluation systems; delivers specialist services to
learners; manages school improvement services at local level and
owns, and operates a network of schools and nurseries. Unique
amongst its competitors, CfBT invests its surpluses (currently over
£1 million sterling) in a research and development programme that is
committed to exploring innovations and options around
diversification, education services market creation, and
public/private partnerships in the provision of education. Mr.
Emmett leads the company's team in the creation of and entry to new
markets. Prior to joining CfBT, he was an educator, university
manager, and change consultant.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
About the Publication
The provision of schooling is largely provided and financed by
governments. However, due to unmet demand for education coupled with
shrinking government budgets, the public sector in several parts of
the world is developing innovative partnerships with the private
sector. Private education encompasses a wide range of providers
including for-profit schools (that operate as enterprises),
religious schools, non-profit schools run by NGOs, publicly funded
schools operated by private boards, and community owned schools. In
other words, there is a market for education.
For additional information, please click here.

About The InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers, including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER: Nicholas Stern launches "The Global Deal" on Tuesday, April 28 at 4:30 PM in JB1-080

(Embedded image moved to file: pic08714.jpg)

AUTHOR
Nicholas Stern
Professor in Economics and Government & Chair
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, London School of
Economics and Political Science
Mr. Stern is the IG Patel Chair and Chairman of the Grantham
Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and
Director of the India Observatory at the London School of Economics
and Political Science. As Baron Stern of Brentford, he is a member
of the UK House of Lords. He was Chief Economist and Senior Vice
President of the World Bank from 2000-2003, head of the UK
Government Economic Service from 2003-2007, and head of the Stern
Review on the Economics of Climate Change from 2005-2007. His career
from 1970 to 1994 was as an academic economist, including teaching
and research positions in MIT. His research and publications have
focused on the economics of climate change, economic development and
growth, economic theory, tax reform, public policy, and the role of
state and economies in transition.

CHAIR
Hartwig Schafer
Director, Strategy and Operations, Sustainable Development Network,
World Bank
Mr. Schafer, a German national, has worked for over 18 years in
professional and managerial positions in the World Bank and the
European Commission. He is currently Director of Strategy and
Operations in the Sustainable Development (SDN) Network Vice
Presidency. Previously, Mr. Schafer held the position of Director
for Operations and Strategy in the Africa Regional Vice President's
Office overseeing the implementation of the Africa Action Plan,
which focused on scaling up development impact across the
Sub-Saharan Africa. He also has served as Country Director for
Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe and was Chief Administrative Officer for
the Africa Region.

DISCUSSANT
Marianne Fay
Co-Director, World Development Report 2010, World Bank
Ms. Fay is the co-director of the World Development Report 2010 on
climate change. Prior to this, she was a Lead Economist in the
Office of the Chief Economist for Eastern Europe and Central Asia,
where she worked on infrastructure and more recently, adaptation to
climate change. She previously was the Lead Economist for the
Finance, Infrastructure, and Private Sector Development Department
of the Latin America and the Caribbean Region at the World Bank.
She has also worked on energy and urbanization in Sub-Saharan
Africa. Her research has mostly focused on the role of
infrastructure and urbanization in development, and more recently on
urban poverty issues. She is the author of a number of articles on
these topics and has recently published books on The Urban Poor in
Latin America and Infrastructure in Latin America.
.

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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

The Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities" launched on Wednesday, May 6th from 3-5 PM in J1-050

(Embedded image moved to file: pic30574.jpg)

CHAIR
Elizabeth King
Director of Education, Human Development Network, World Bank
Ms. King is Director of Education in the Human Development Network
of the World Bank. She is the World Bank's senior spokesperson for
global policy and strategic education issues in developing
countries. Until January 2009, she was a manager in the World Bank's
research department, heading the team that focuses on human
development issues. She has published on topics such as household
investments in human capital; the linkages between education,
poverty and economic development; gender issues in development,
especially women's education; education finance, and the impact of
decentralization reforms. Since joining the World Bank, she has
contributed to public expenditure reviews, country economic
assessments, policy analyses of the human development sectors, and
impact evaluations of policies and programs. She was the Lead
Economist for the World Bank's human development department for East
Asian countries for three years, and served as co-author of three
World Development Reports.

AUTHOR
Jamil Salmi
Tertiary Education Coordinator, Human Development Network, World
Bank
Mr. Salmi, a Moroccan education economist, is the coordinator of the
World Bank's tertiary education program. He is the author of
Establishing World Class Universities and the principal author of
the Tertiary Education Strategy entitled, Constructing Knowledge
Societies: New Challenges for Tertiary Education. In the past
fifteen years, he has provided policy and technical advice on
tertiary education reform to the governments of over 35 countries
around the world. Mr. Salmi has also guided the strategic planning
efforts of several public and private universities in Colombia,
Kenya, Mexico, and Peru. Before moving to the Human Development
Vice-Presidency in July 2001, Mr. Salmi worked for 7 years in the
World Bank's Latin America and Caribbean region (as Education Sector
Manager during the last two years in LAC); in the Education and
Social Policy Department of the World Bank (1990-1993) and also
prepared the World Bank's first Policy Paper on Higher Education
(1994). Prior to joining the World Bank, he was a professor of
education economics at the National Institute of Education Planning
in Rabar, Morocco. Mr. Salmi is the author of five books and
numerous articles on education and development issues.

DISCUSSANTS
Richard Miller
President, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Mr. Miller was appointed President and first employee of the
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering on February 1, 1999, where
he also holds an appointment as Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
Before joining Olin College, he served as Dean of Engineering at the
University of Iowa from 1992-99. He spent the previous 17 years on
the engineering faculties at the University of Southern California
and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Mr. Miller has
authored about 100 technical publications in the field of applied
mechanics, and has won five awards for teaching excellence. He is a
member of the governance boards for two independent colleges and one
engineering services corporation, and serves on several advisory
boards for non-profit organizations and universities. He is a member
of the Visiting Committee for the School for Engineering and Applied
Sciences of Harvard University, and the Higher Education Working
Group of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He serves as
a consultant to the World Bank in education and recently chaired the
Association of Independent Technological Universities.

Philip Altbach
Professor of Higher Education & Director of the Center for
International Higher Education, Boston College
Mr. Altbach is the Director of the Center for International Higher
Education and the J. Donald Monan, SJ professor of higher education
in the Lynch School of Education. He has extensive experience in the
field of comparative and international higher education. He is
editor of The International Academic Profession (1997: Carnegie),
co-editor of American Higher Education in the 21st Century (1997:
Johns Hopkins, revised edition in press), former editor of the ASHE
journal, The Review of Higher Education, and the editor of
International Higher Education: An Encyclopedia, (2 volumes). He is
author of Comparative Higher Education, Higher Education in the
Third World, and other books. His most recent book is Asian
Universities: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004). He co-edited In Defense of
American Higher Education. with Patricia Gumport and Bruce
Johnstone, published in 2001. His research interests include
comparative education, history and philosophy of higher education,
international education, student political activism, the academic
profession, and knowledge networks.

About the publication
Governments are becoming increasingly aware of the important
contribution that high performance, world-class universities make to
global competitiveness and economic growth. There is growing
recognition, in both industrial and developing countries, of the
need to establish one or more world-class universities that can
compete effectively with the best of the best around the world.
Contextualizing the drive for world-class higher education
institutions and the power of international and domestic university
ranking, this book outlines possible strategies and pathways for
establishing globally competitive universities and explores the
challenges, costs, and risks involved. Its findings will be of
particular interest to policy makers, university leaders,
researchers, and development practitioners. For additional
information and access to the publication, please click here.

About The InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers, including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER - "Moving Out of Poverty " launched on April 27 at 12 PM in Preston Auditorium

(Embedded image moved to file: pic08510.jpg)

CHAIR
Danny Leipziger
Vice President, Poverty Reduction & Economic Management Network,
World Bank
Mr. Leipziger is the Vice President of the Poverty Reduction &
Economic Management Network (PREM) at the World Bank since 2004. As
the Head of the PREM Network, which has nearly 1000 professionals,
he reports to the President of the World Bank, and provides
leadership for the institution?s strategic work on growth and
poverty reduction across the regional PREM units. He also serves as
the focal point for economic policy, debt, trade, gender and
governance issues and for the World Bank?s dialogue with key partner
institutions?including the IMF, WTO, OECD, and the EU. In addition,
he serves as Head of the World Bank's Delegation to Hong Kong Trade
Ministerial, Head of the World Bank's Delegation to G8 Ministerials,
which is responsible for crisis analysis and policy coordination.

AUTHORS
Deepa Narayan
Project Director, Moving Out of Poverty Study, World Bank
Ms. Narayan is project director of the 15-country World Bank study
entitled, Moving Out of Poverty: Understanding Freedom, Democracy,
and Growth from the Bottom Up. From 2002 through 2008, she served as
senior adviser in the Poverty Reduction & Economic Management (PREM)
Network of the World Bank, first in the Poverty Reduction Group and
subsequently in the vice president?s office within PREM. She has
development experience in Asia and Africa while working across
sectors for nongovernmental organizations, national governments, and
the United Nations system. Her areas of expertise include
participatory development, community-driven development, and social
capital, as well as use of these concepts to create wealth for poor
people. Her recent publications include Moving Out of Poverty:
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility (World Bank, 2007);
Ending Poverty in South Asia: Ideas that Work (with Elena Glinskaya,
World Bank 2007); Measuring Empowerment:Cross-Disciplinary
Perspectives (World Bank, 2005); Empowerment and Poverty Reduction:
A Sourcebook (World Bank 2002); and the three-volume Voices of the
Poor; series (Oxford University Press 2000, 2001, 2002).

Lant Pritchett
Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University)
Mr. Pritchett is professor of the practice of economic development
at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
He is also a nonresident fellow of the Center for Global
Development, a senior fellow of BREAD (Bureau for Research and
Economic Analysis of Development), co-editor of the Journal of
Development Economics, and a consultant to Google.org. He held a
number of positions at the World Bank between 1988 and 2007, working
in Indonesia and India as well as in Washington, DC. He has
participated in teams that produced a number of World Bank reports,
including World Development Report 1994: Infrastructure for
Development; Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn?t, and Why
(1998); Better Health Systems for India?s Poor: Findings, Analysis,
and Options (2003); World Development Report 2004: Making Services
Work for Poor People; and Economic Growth in the 1990s: Learning
from a Decade of Reforms (2005). He has authored or co-authored more
than 50 papers published in refereed journals, as chapters in books,
or as articles. His monograph, Let Their People Come: Breaking the
Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility, was published by Center for
Global Development in 2006.

DISCUSSANT
Geoffrey Lamb
Managing Director, Public Policy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Mr. Lamb is Managing Director for Public Policy at the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation (Washington, DC office). In this position,
he serves as the senior advisor on international policy development
and leads a team that partners with public policy issues in each of
the foundation's three program areas (Global Health, Global
Development and U.S. Programs) to help build strategic relationships
that are critical to the foundation's work. Before joining the
foundation, Mr. Lamb held several senior development positions at
the World Bank, most recently as Vice President, Concessional
Finance and Global Partnerships. An Irish citizen, he was born in
South Africa and lived in the UK, where he was subsequently a Fellow
and Deputy Director of the Institute of Development Studies at the
University of Sussex.

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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER - "Moving Out of Poverty " launched on April 27 at 12 PM in Preston Auditorium

(Embedded image moved to file: pic16497.jpg)

CHAIR
Danny Leipziger
Vice President, Poverty Reduction & Economic Management Network,
World Bank
Mr. Leipziger is the Vice President of the Poverty Reduction &
Economic Management Network (PREM) at the World Bank since 2004. As
the Head of the PREM Network, which has nearly 1000 professionals,
he reports to the President of the World Bank, and provides
leadership for the institution?s strategic work on growth and
poverty reduction across the regional PREM units. He also serves as
the focal point for economic policy, debt, trade, gender and
governance issues and for the World Bank?s dialogue with key partner
institutions?including the IMF, WTO, OECD, and the EU. In addition,
he serves as Head of the World Bank's Delegation to Hong Kong Trade
Ministerial, Head of the World Bank's Delegation to G8 Ministerials,
which is responsible for crisis analysis and policy coordination.

AUTHORS
Deepa Narayan
Project Director, Moving Out of Poverty Study, World Bank
Ms. Narayan is project director of the 15-country World Bank study
entitled, Moving Out of Poverty: Understanding Freedom, Democracy,
and Growth from the Bottom Up. From 2002 through 2008, she served as
senior adviser in the Poverty Reduction & Economic Management (PREM)
Network of the World Bank, first in the Poverty Reduction Group and
subsequently in the vice president?s office within PREM. She has
development experience in Asia and Africa while working across
sectors for nongovernmental organizations, national governments, and
the United Nations system. Her areas of expertise include
participatory development, community-driven development, and social
capital, as well as use of these concepts to create wealth for poor
people. Her recent publications include Moving Out of Poverty:
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility (World Bank, 2007);
Ending Poverty in South Asia: Ideas that Work (with Elena Glinskaya,
World Bank 2007); Measuring Empowerment:Cross-Disciplinary
Perspectives (World Bank, 2005); Empowerment and Poverty Reduction:
A Sourcebook (World Bank 2002); and the three-volume Voices of the
Poor; series (Oxford University Press 2000, 2001, 2002).

Lant Pritchett
Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University)
Mr. Pritchett is professor of the practice of economic development
at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
He is also a nonresident fellow of the Center for Global
Development, a senior fellow of BREAD (Bureau for Research and
Economic Analysis of Development), co-editor of the Journal of
Development Economics, and a consultant to Google.org. He held a
number of positions at the World Bank between 1988 and 2007, working
in Indonesia and India as well as in Washington, DC. He has
participated in teams that produced a number of World Bank reports,
including World Development Report 1994: Infrastructure for
Development; Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn?t, and Why
(1998); Better Health Systems for India?s Poor: Findings, Analysis,
and Options (2003); World Development Report 2004: Making Services
Work for Poor People; and Economic Growth in the 1990s: Learning
from a Decade of Reforms (2005). He has authored or co-authored more
than 50 papers published in refereed journals, as chapters in books,
or as articles. His monograph, Let Their People Come: Breaking the
Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility, was published by Center for
Global Development in 2006.

DISCUSSANT
Geoffrey Lamb
Managing Director, Public Policy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Mr. Lamb is Managing Director for Public Policy at the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation (Washington, DC office). In this position,
he serves as the senior advisor on international policy development
and leads a team that partners with public policy issues in each of
the foundation's three program areas (Global Health, Global
Development and U.S. Programs) to help build strategic relationships
that are critical to the foundation's work. Before joining the
foundation, Mr. Lamb held several senior development positions at
the World Bank, most recently as Vice President, Concessional
Finance and Global Partnerships. An Irish citizen, he was born in
South Africa and lived in the UK, where he was subsequently a Fellow
and Deputy Director of the Institute of Development Studies at the
University of Sussex.

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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER: Nobel Laureate Edward Prescott discusses "Time Inconsistent Traps: Bailouts for all when credible to none" on Friday, April 24 at 2:00 PM in I2-250

The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
Distinguished Seminar Series

(Embedded image moved to file: pic17887.jpg)

PRESENTER
Edward Prescott
2004 Economics Nobel Laureate
Arizona State University (Tempe) and Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis
Mr. Prescott?s pioneering contributions to the field of economics
have deeply affected how economists think about business cycles and
design economic policy. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
describes his work as ?not only transforming economic research, but
also profoundly influencing the practice of economic policy in
general, and monetary policy in particular." Mr. Prescott?s research
called into question Keynesian theories ? currently witnessing a
resurgence ? related to economic booms and busts. Mr. Prescott has
held faculty positions at the University of Minnesota and University
of Chicago. His is also co-author of the 2000 book Barriers to
Riches, which argues that barriers to technology adoption are the
dominant cause of the large differences in standards of living
across countries.

DISCUSSANTS
Shantayanan Devarajan
Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank
Mr. Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank?s Africa
Region, and also maintains a popular web blog open to public
opinion: http://africacan.worldbank.org/. 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. His research covers public economics,
trade policy, natural resources and the environment, and
general-equilibrium modeling of developing countries.

Vikram Nehru
Director, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, East Asia and
Pacific Region, World Bank
Mr. Nehru is the Director and Acting Chief Economist in the East
Asia Region of the World Bank. He was formerly the Director of the
World Bank?s Economic Policy and Debt Department, which covers
macroeconomic and debt issues for developing countries. He was also
the former Lead Economist for the World Bank's Indonesia Program
during and after the East Asian Crisis (1997-2002) and led most of
crisis and post-crisis economic dialogue for the World Bank in
Indonesia. His latest work includes, When is External Debt
Sustainable? China 2020: Development Challenges in the New Century,
and Indonesia: Imperative for Reform.

MODERATOR
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and
Recovery, World Bank
Mr. Sanghi is leading the ongoing World Bank?UN Assessment on the
Economics of Disaster Risk Reduction. This event is part of a
distinguished seminar series designed to contribute ideas by
individuals such as Kenneth Arrow, Freeman Dyson, Daniel Kahneman,
Howard Kunreuther, Wangari Maathai, William Nordhaus, Edward
Prescott, Richard Posner, Thomas Schelling, Martin Weitzman, and
others on selected themes of the World Bank?UN Assessment. For more
information about the Assessment, please contact Mr. Sanghi at
asanghi@worldbank.org.

About The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
(GFDRR)
GFDRR is a partnership of the International Strategy for Disaster
Reduction (ISDR) system to support the implementation of the Hyogo
Framework for Action (HFA). The HFA, endorsed by the United Nations
General Assembly in Resolution 60/195, is the primary international
agreement for disaster reduction. One hundred sixty-eight (168)
countries and multilateral organizations including the World Bank
and the United Nations (UN) system participated in the UN World
Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan in January
2005. The principal strategic goal of the HFA is to effectively
integrate, in a coherent manner, disaster risk considerations into
sustainable development policies, planning, programming, and
financing at all levels of government.
For more information, visit GFDRR.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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

Nicholas Stern launches "The Global Deal" on Tuesday, April 28 at 4:30 PM in JB1-080

(Embedded image moved to file: pic04381.jpg)

AUTHOR
Nicholas Stern
Professor in Economics and Government & Chair
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, London School of
Economics and Political Science
Mr. Stern is the IG Patel Chair and Chairman of the Grantham
Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and
Director of the India Observatory at the London School of Economics
and Political Science. As Baron Stern of Brentford, he is a member
of the UK House of Lords. He was Chief Economist and Senior Vice
President of the World Bank from 2000-2003, head of the UK
Government Economic Service from 2003-2007, and head of the Stern
Review on the Economics of Climate Change from 2005-2007. His career
from 1970 to 1994 was as an academic economist, including teaching
and research positions in MIT. His research and publications have
focused on the economics of climate change, economic development and
growth, economic theory, tax reform, public policy, and the role of
state and economies in transition.

CHAIR
Hartwig Schafer
Director, Strategy and Operations, Sustainable Development Network,
World Bank
Mr. Schafer, a German national, has worked for over 18 years in
professional and managerial positions in the World Bank and the
European Commission. He is currently Director of Strategy and
Operations in the Sustainable Development (SDN) Network Vice
Presidency. Previously, Mr. Schafer held the position of Director
for Operations and Strategy in the Africa Regional Vice President's
Office overseeing the implementation of the Africa Action Plan,
which focused on scaling up development impact across the
Sub-Saharan Africa. He also has served as Country Director for
Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe and was Chief Administrative Officer for
the Africa Region.

DISCUSSANT
Marianne Fay
Co-Director, World Development Report 2010, World Bank
Ms. Fay is the co-director of the World Development Report 2010 on
climate change. Prior to this, she was a Lead Economist in the
Office of the Chief Economist for Eastern Europe and Central Asia,
where she worked on infrastructure and more recently, adaptation to
climate change. She previously was the Lead Economist for the
Finance, Infrastructure, and Private Sector Development Department
of the Latin America and the Caribbean Region at the World Bank.
She has also worked on energy and urbanization in Sub-Saharan
Africa. Her research has mostly focused on the role of
infrastructure and urbanization in development, and more recently on
urban poverty issues. She is the author of a number of articles on
these topics and has recently published books on The Urban Poor in
Latin America and Infrastructure in Latin America.
.

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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

"The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education" discussed on April 29 at 12 PM in J1-050

(Embedded image moved to file: pic23941.jpg)

CHAIR
Elizabeth King
Director of Education, World Bank
Ms. King is Director of Education in the Human Development Network
of the World Bank. She is the Bank's senior spokesperson for global
policy and strategic education issues in developing countries. Until
January 2009, she was a manager in the Bank's research department,
heading the team that focuses on human development issues. She has
published on topics such as household investments in human capital;
the linkages between education, poverty and economic development;
gender issues in development, especially women's education;
education finance, and the impact of decentralization reforms. Since
joining the Bank, she has contributed to public expenditure reviews,
country economic assessments, policy analyses of the human
development sectors, and impact evaluations of policies and
programs. She was the Lead Economist for the World Bank's human
development department for East Asian countries for three years, and
served as co-author of three World Development Reports.

AUTHOR
Harry Anthony Patrinos
Lead Education Economist, World Bank
Mr. Patrinos is Lead Education Economist at the World Bank. He
specializes in all areas of education, especially school-based
management, demand-side financing, and public-private partnerships.
He managed education lending operations and analytical work programs
in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico, as well as a regional research
project on the socioeconomic status of Latin America?s Indigenous
Peoples, published as Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human
Development in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). He is one
of the main authors of the report, Lifelong Learning in the Global
Knowledge Economy (World Bank, 2003). Mr. Patrinos has many
publications in the academic and policy literature, with more than
40 journal articles. He is co-author of the books: Policy Analysis
of Child Labor: A Comparative Study, Decentralization of Education:
Demand-Side Financing, and Indigenous People and Poverty in Latin
America: An Empirical Analysis with George Psacharopoulos.

DISCUSSANTS
Paul Peterson
Professor of Government, Harvard University
Mr. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and
Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at
Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at
Stanford University, and Editor-In-Chief of Education Next, a
journal of opinion and research on education policy. Mr. Peterson
is the author or editor of over one hundred articles and
thirty-five-plus books, including his most recent title School
Choice International: Exploring Public-Private Partnerships (MIT,
2009). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
and the National Academy of Education. Mr. Peterson is a member of
the independent review panel advising the Department of Education?s
evaluation of the No Child Left Behind law. The Editorial Projects
in Education Research Center reported that Peterson?s studies on
school choice and vouchers were among the country?s most influential
studies of education policy.

Neil McIntosh
Chief Executive, CfBT Education Trust
Mr. McIntosh is the Chief Executive of CfBT, Britain?s largest
educational charity. Since he became Chief Executive in the early
1990s, CfBT has been transformed from a £7.4 million p.a. manager of
English Language programs to become the world's leading not for
profit international education consultancy with a turnover of £100
million p.a. In his role, Mr. McIntosh is a leading contributor to
the debate about diversification and public/private partnerships in
the provision of education. Prior to joining CfBT, Mr. McIntosh was
Director of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO). Before this, he was
Director of Shelter, Britain?s pre-eminent charity for homeless
people. He created, and was the first Chairman, of Homeless
International, a specialist NGO, which initiates and finances
innovative settlement projects and encourages inter agency
cooperation in the South. Mr. McIntosh is the Chairman of the UK
Freedom of Information Campaign. He has written extensively on
industrial relations, community development, and economics of
housing.

About the Publication
The provision of schooling is largely provided and financed by
governments. However, due to unmet demand for education coupled with
shrinking government budgets, the public sector in several parts of
the world is developing innovative partnerships with the private
sector. Private education encompasses a wide range of providers
including for-profit schools (that operate as enterprises),
religious schools, non-profit schools run by NGOs, publicly funded
schools operated by private boards, and community owned schools. In
other words, there is a market for education.
For additional information, please click here.

About The InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers, including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER: "AIDS - Is It a Risk to Economic Development in Regions with Low HIV Prevalence?" discussed on Monday, April 20 at 12 PM in J1-050

(Embedded image moved to file: pic28423.jpg)

MODERATOR
Julie McLaughlin
Sector Manager, Health, Nutrition, and Population, South Asia
Region, World Bank

PRESENTERS
Mariam Claeson,
Program Coordinator, South Asia Regional AIDS Team, World Bank

Mead Over
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development

DISCUSSANTS
Robert Clay
Director, The Office of HIV/AIDS, USAID

Debrework Zewdie
Director, Global AIDS Unit, World Bank

About The InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers, including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

"Hardware and Software Industries in China and India" discussed on April 30 at 12 PM in J1-050

(Embedded image moved to file: pic00142.jpg)

OPENING REMARKS
Mohsen Khalil
Director, Global Information and Communication Technologies, World
Bank Group
Mr. Khalil is Director of the Global Information and Communication
Technologies department, a joint department of the World Bank and
International Finance Corporation (IFC). Prior to this appointment,
he held positions at IFC as Director of Central Asia, Middle East
and North Africa Department. He also served as Chief Investment
Officer at the Telecommunications, Transport, and Utilities
Department. Previous to this, while also a Professor of Business at
the American University of Beirut, Mr. Khalil served as Chief
Adviser to the Lebanese Minister of Post and Telecommunications; as
Board Director of Lebanon's Autonomous Fund for Housing; and as
advisor to various governments and major corporations in the Middle
East. He also worked with McKinsey & Co. Management Consultants,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and MITRE Corporation.

AUTHORS
Neil Gregory
Adviser, Financial and Private Sector Development, World Bank Group
Office of the Chief Economist, IFC
Mr. Gregory is Adviser to the Vice President for Financial and
Private Sector Development at the World Bank. He was previously a
manager in the South Asia Department of the IFC. He has written on
the emergence of the private sector in China and on foreign direct
investment to developing countries and has lectured on the growth of
the private sector in China and India. He began his career as an
economist with the UK government, and served as adviser to the UK
Executive Director of the World Bank Group and IMF from 1993?96.

Stanley Nollen
Professor of International Business, McDonough School of Business,
Georgetown University
Mr. Nollen is professor of International Business at the Georgetown
University McDonough School of Business in Washington, DC. His
research includes studies of the growth, intellectual property, and
export performance of firms in the information technology industry
in India along with the performance of firms in emerging market
economies. He has published books and articles in leading journals.
He teaches international business and economics, and has conducted
study programs and executive education courses in Belgium, the Czech
Republic, Croatia, India, República Bolivariana de Venezuela, and
Vietnam and has twice received Fulbright scholar awards.

Stoyan Tenev
Chief Evaluation Officer and Head of Macroevaluations, Independent Evaluation
Group, IFC,
Mr. Tenev is Chief Evaluation Officer and Head of Macroevaluations
at the Independent Evaluation Group of the International Finance
Corporation. He was previously Lead Economist for East Asia and
Pacific at the IFC. His research includes books and articles on
China, East Asian economies, transition economies, economic reforms,
private sector development, and corporate governance.

DISCUSSANTS
Shahid Yusuf
Economic Adviser, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World
Bank Institute
Mr. Yusuf is Economic Adviser at the World Bank Institute at the
World Bank and currently manages a major project on East Asia's
Prospects. He was the Director for the 1999/2000 WDR and has held
positions in the Bank's regional and research departments. Mr.
Yusuf?s most recent publications include: Post Industrial East Asian
Cities co-authored with Kaoru Nabeshima (2006); Dancing with Giants
co-edited with L. Alan Winters ( 2007); How Universities Promote
Economic Growth co-edited with Kaoru Nabeshima (2007); China
Urbanizes co-edited with Tony Saich (2008); Growing Industrial
Clusters in Asia co-edited with Kaoru Nabeshima and Shoichi
Yamashita (2008); Accelerating Catch-Up: Tertiary Education and
Growth in Africa co-authored with William Saint and Kaoru Nabeshima
(2008); and Development Economics through the Decades (World Bank
2009).

Albert Keidel
Senior Associate, China Program, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace
Mr. Keidel joined the Carnegie Endowment in September 2004, after
serving as acting director and deputy director for the Office of
East Asian Nations at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. His work
at the Endowment focuses on issues relating to China?s economic
system reforms, macroeconomy, regional development, and poverty
reduction strategy. Before joining Treasury in 2001, he covered
economic trends, system reforms, poverty, and country risk as a
senior economist in the World Bank office in Beijing. Mr. Keidel has
worked in China, Japan, and Korea and taught graduate economics
courses on China, Japan, and economic development. He also currently
teaches a Georgetown University graduate course on China?s economy.

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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

"Moving Out of Poverty " launched on April 27 at 12 PM in Preston Auditorium

(Embedded image moved to file: pic09676.jpg)

CHAIR
Danny Leipziger
Vice President, Poverty Reduction & Economic Management Network,
World Bank
Mr. Leipziger is the Vice President of the Poverty Reduction &
Economic Management Network (PREM) at the World Bank since 2004. As
the Head of the PREM Network, which has nearly 1000 professionals,
he reports to the President of the World Bank, and provides
leadership for the institution?s strategic work on growth and
poverty reduction across the regional PREM units. He also serves as
the focal point for economic policy, debt, trade, gender and
governance issues and for the World Bank?s dialogue with key partner
institutions?including the IMF, WTO, OECD, and the EU. In addition,
he serves as Head of the World Bank's Delegation to Hong Kong Trade
Ministerial, Head of the World Bank's Delegation to G8 Ministerials,
which is responsible for crisis analysis and policy coordination.

AUTHORS
Deepa Narayan
Project Director, Moving Out of Poverty Study, World Bank
Ms. Narayan is project director of the 15-country World Bank study
en.titled, Moving Out of Poverty: Understanding Freedom, Democracy,
and Growth from the Bottom Up. From 2002 through 2008, she served as
senior adviser in the Poverty Reduction & Economic Management (PREM)
Network of the World Bank, first in the Poverty Reduction Group and
subsequently in the vice president?s office within PREM. She has
development experience in Asia and Africa while working across
sectors for nongovernmental organizations, national governments, and
the United Nations system. Her areas of expertise include
participatory development, community-driven development, and social
capital, as well as use of these concepts to create wealth for poor
people. Her recent publications include Moving Out of Poverty:
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility (World Bank, 2007);
Ending Poverty in South Asia: Ideas that Work (with Elena Glinskaya,
World Bank 2007); Measuring Empowerment:Cross-Disciplinary
Perspectives (World Bank, 2005); Empowerment and Poverty Reduction:
A Sourcebook (World Bank 2002); and the three-volume Voices of the
Poor; series (Oxford University Press 2000, 2001, 2002).

Lant Pritchett
Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University)
Mr. Pritchett is professor of the practice of economic development
at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
He is also a nonresident fellow of the Center for Global
Development, a senior fellow of BREAD (Bureau for Research and
Economic Analysis of Development), co-editor of the Journal of
Development Economics, and a consultant to Google.org. He held a
number of positions at the World Bank between 1988 and 2007, working
in Indonesia and India as well as in Washington, DC. He has
participated in teams that produced a number of World Bank reports,
including World Development Report 1994: Infrastructure for
Development; Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn?t, and Why
(1998); Better Health Systems for India?s Poor: Findings, Analysis,
and Options (2003); World Development Report 2004: Making Services
Work for Poor People; and Economic Growth in the 1990s: Learning
from a Decade of Reforms (2005). He has authored or co-authored more
than 50 papers published in refereed journals, as chapters in books,
or as articles. His monograph, Let Their People Come: Breaking the
Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility, was published by Center for
Global Development in 2006.

DISCUSSANT
Geoffrey Lamb
Managing Director, Public Policy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Mr. Lamb is Managing Director for Public Policy at the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation (Washington, DC office). In this position,
he serves as the senior advisor on international policy development
and leads a team that partners with public policy issues in each of
the foundation's three program areas (Global Health, Global
Development and U.S. Programs) to help build strategic relationships
that are critical to the foundation's work. Before joining the
foundation, Mr. Lamb held several senior development positions at
the World Bank, most recently as Vice President, Concessional
Finance and Global Partnerships. An Irish citizen, he was born in
South Africa and lived in the UK, where he was subsequently a Fellow
and Deputy Director of the Institute of Development Studies at the
University of Sussex.

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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

What's New at the InfoShop, April 2009

(Embedded image moved to file: pic24114.jpg)

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 (World Bank publications only) for more information.

Africa Development Indicators 2008/09: Youth and Employment in Africa: The
Potential, the Problem, the Promise . $120.00pb w/CD-ROM

Africa Development Indicators 2008/09 Multi-User CD-ROM. $200.00

Aging Population, Pension Funds, and Financial Markets: Regional Perspectives
and Global Challenges for Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe, edited by
Robert Holzmann. $25.00pb

An Assessment of the Investment Climate in Kenya, by Giuseppi Iarossi. $15.00pb

Breaking Into New Markets: Emerging Lessons for Export Diversification, edited
by Richard Newfarmer, William Shaw and Peter Walkenhorst. $35.00pb

The Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities, by Jamil Salmi. $22.00pb

Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa, edited by Kym Anderson and
William A. Masters. $39.95pb

Improving Transparency, Integrity, and Accountability in Water Supply and
Sanitation, by Maria Gonzalez de Asis, Donal O'Leary, Per Ljung and John
Butterworth. $30.00pb

Moving Out of Poverty, Volume 2: Success from the Bottom Up , by Deepa Narayan,
Lant Pritchett and Soumya Kapoor. $40.00pb

Organization and Performance of Cotton Sectors in Africa: Learning from Reform
Experience, edited by David Tschirley, Colin Poulton, and Patrick Labaste.
$24.95pb

The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education, by Harry
Anthony Patrinos, Felipe Barrera-Osorio and Juliana Guaqueta. $35.00pb

Youth Employment in Sierra Leone: Sustainable Livelihood Opportunities in a
Post-Conflict Setting, by Pia Peeters, Wendy Cunninham, Gayatri Acharya and
Arvil Van Adams. $25.00pb

Emerging States: The Wellspring of a New World Order, edited by Christophe
Jaffrelot. Columbia University Press. $39.50hb

The Godfather Doctrine: A Foreign Policy Parable, by John C. Hulsman and A. Wess
Mitchell. Princeton University Press. $9.95hb

The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Moderen States, and the
Quest for a Global Nation (with a new conclusion: Yes, We Must), by Strobe
Talbott. Simon & Schuster. $18.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Megacommunities: How Leaders of Government, Business and Non-Profits Can Tackle
Today's Global Challenges Together, by Mark Gerencser, Reginald Van Lee,
Fernando Napolitano, and Christopher Kelly. Palgrave Macmillan. $16.95 NEW IN
PAPERBACK!

Michelle Obama in Her Own Words, edited by Lisa Rogak. PublicAffairs. $12.95pb

Nomad's Hotel: Travels in Time and Space, by Cees Nooteboom. Mariner. $13.95pb

Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative
Presidency, by Robert Kuttner. Chelsea Green. $14.95pb

Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making, by David
Rothkopf. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $16.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, by William Appleman Williams. Norton.
$17.95pb

Coping with Facts: A Skeptic's Guide to the Problem of Development, by Adam
Fforde. Kumarian. $25.95pb

Economic Development and Transition: Thought, Strategy, and Viability, by Justin
Yifu Lin. Cambridge University Press. $25.99pb

One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth,
by Dani Rodrik. Princeton University Press. $18.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Reclaiming Value in International Development: The Moral Dimensions of
Development Policy and Practice in Poor Countries, by Chloe Schwenke. Praeger.
$29.95pb

Successes of the International Monetqary Fund: Untold Stories of Cooperation at
Work, edited by Eduard Brau and Ian McDonald. Palgrave Macmillan. $34.95pb

Vault Career Guide to International Development: The Inside Scoop on Jobs in
International Development, by Christopher Miller and the Staff at Vault. Vault.
$29.95pb

The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences
, by Herbert Gintis. Princeton University Press. $35.00hb

Connections: An Introduction to the Economics of Networks, by Sanjeev Goyal.
Princeton University Press. $24.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Economic Modeling and Inference, by Bent Jesper Christensen and Nicholas M.
Kiefer. Princeton University Press. $49.50hb

The Euro: The Politics of the New Global Currency, by David Marsh. Yale
University Press. $35.00hb

A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Econommic History of the World, by Gregory Clark.
Princeton University Press. $18.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Game Theory Evolving: A Problem-Centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic
Interaction, 2/e, by Herbert Gintis. Princeton University Press. $35.00pb

Greed: Gut Feelings, Growth, and History, by A. F. Robertson. Polity. $24.95pb

An Introduction to Mathematical Analysis for Economic Theory and Econometrics,
by Dean Corbae, Maxwell B. Stinchcombe, and Juraj Zeman. Princeton University
Press. $75.00hb

Modern Microeconomics, by Brajesh Kumar. Global Professional Publishing.
$49.95pb

The Myth of the Free Market: The Role of the State in a Capitalist Economy, by
Mark A. Martinez. Kumarian Press. $24.95pb

Rational Decisions, by Ken Binmore. Princeton University Press. $40.00hb

Theory of Decision under Uncertainty, by Itzhak Gilboa. Cambridge University
Press. $29.99pb

Tocqueville's Political Economy, by Richard Swedberg. Princeton University
Press. $35.00hb

The Value of Money, by Prabhat Patnaik. Princeton University Press. $37.50hb

Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism, by Michael Burleigh.
HarperCollins. $29.99hb

The Crisis of Islamic Civilization, by Ali A. Allawi. Yale University Press.
$27.50hb

Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims Marched with Christians across Europe's
Battlegrounds., by Ian Almond. Harvard University Press. $29.95hb

Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West, by Anthony Pagden.
Random House. $17.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery, by E. Benjamin
Skinner. Free Press. $16.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Forced to be Good: Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights, by Emilie M.
Hafner-Burton. Cornell University Press. $39.95hb

Global Good Samaritans: Human Rights as Foreign Policy., by Alison Brysk. Oxford
University Press. $27.95pb

Human Rights Watch World Report 2009. Sevent Stories Press. $25.00pb

The Rights of Spring: A Memooir of Innocence Abroad, by David Kennedy. Princeton
University Press. $15.95pb

Asset Pricing Theory, by Costis Skiadas. Princeton University Press. $49.50hb

Contagion: The Financial Epidemic That Is Sweeping the Global Economy...and How
to Protect Yourself From It, by John R. Talbott. Wiley. $24.95pb

The Crash of 2008 and What It Means: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets, by
George Soros. PublicAffairs. $14.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!.

Emerging Banking Systems, edited by Paola Bongini, Stefano Chiarlone and
Giovanni Ferri. Palgrave Macmillan. $85.00hb

Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged,
and Worsened the Financial Crisis, by John B. Taylor. Hoover Press. $14.95hb

Globalization and Systemic Risk, edited by Douglas D. Evanoff, David S.
Hoelscher and George G. Kaufman. World Scientific Publishers. $118.00hb

The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences, by John Bellamy Foster and
Fred Magdoff. Monthly Review Press. $12.95pb

House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, by William
D. Cohan. Doubleday. $27.95hb

Indifference Pricing: Theory and Applications, edited by Rene Carmona. Princeton
University Press. $75.00hb

International Finance: Theory into Practice, by Piet Sercu. Princeton University
Press. $85.00hb

The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall
Street Scandals, by Frank Partnoy. PublicAffairs. $26.95hb

The Origin and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions: From the
Seventeenth Century to the Present, edited by Jeremy Atack and Larry Neal.
Cambridge University Press. $115.00hb

The Pledge: ASA, Peasant Politics, and Microfinance in the Development of
Bangladesh, by Stuart Rutherford. Oxford University Press. $49.95hb

Achieving High Performance: Essential Managers, by Mike Bourne and Pippa Bourne.
DK Publishing. $8.00pb

Getting Started in Consulting, 3/e, by Alan Weiss. Wiley. $19.95pb

Giving Great Presentations: Prepare, Stay Calm and Deliver in Style, by Drew
Provan. In Easy Steps. $14.99pb

Organized Uncertainty: Designing a World of Risk Management, by Michael Power.
Oxford University Press. $39.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Project Management for Effective Business Change., by John Carroll. In Easy
Steps. $14.99pb

Thinking in Systems: A Primer, by Donella H. Meadows. Chelsea Green. $19.95pb.

Gender, Rights and Development: A Global Sourcebook, edited by Maitrayee
Mukhopadhyay and Shamim Meer. KIT Publishers. $38.95pb

The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran, by Arzoo Osanloo. Princeton University
Press. $22.95pb

Barriers to Democracy: The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine and the
Arab World, by Amaney A. Jamal. Princeton University Press. $37.50hb

Going Local: Decentralization, Democratization, and the Promise of Good
Governance, by Merilee S. Grindle. Princeton University Press. $19.95pb

Governing Sustainability, edited by W. Neil Adger and Andrew Jordan. Cambridge
University Press. $32.99pb

The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations, edited by Thomas G. Weiss and Sam
Daws. Oxford University Press. $49.95pb

The State of Sovereignty: Territories, Laws, Populations, edited by Douglas
Howland and Luise White. Indiana University Press. $24.95pb

Basic Documents in International Law, edited by Ian Brownlie. Oxford University
Press. $65.00pb

The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality, by Ayelet Shachar.
Harvard University Press. $39.95hb

General Jurisprudence: Understanding Law from a Global Perspective, by William
Twining. Cambridge University Press. $70.00pb

Prosecuting Heads of State, edited by Ellen L. Lutz and Caitlin Reiger.
Cambridge University Press. $29.99pb

Growing Unequal: Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries. Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development. $108.00pb

Poverty Dynamics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Tony Addison, David
Hulme and Ravi Kanbur. Oxford University Press. $39.95pb

Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of
Global Trade, by Rachel Louise Snyder. Norton. $16.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Multilateralizing Regionalism: Challenges for the Global Trading System, edited
by Richard Baldwin and Patrick Low. Cambridge University Press/World Trade
Organization. $55.00pb

Education for All Monitoring Report 2009: Overcoming Inequality: Why Governance
Matters. UNESCO Publishing/Oxford University Press. $35.00pb

China, India and the United States: Competition for Energy Resources. Emirates
Center for Strategic Studies and Research. $97.50hb; $49.50pb

Power Markets and Economics: Energy Costs, Trading, Emissions, by Barrie Murray.
Wiley. $120.00hb

Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy;, by Michael T.
Klare. Henry Holt. $16.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution, by Charles Weiss and William B.
Bonvillian. MIT Press. $24.00hb

Wind Energy Pocket Reference, by Peter H. Jensen, Niels L. Meyer, Niels R.
Mortensen, Flemming Oster. Earthscan. $19.95pb

Climate Change: Picturing the Science, by Gavin Schmidt and Joshua Wolfe.
Norton. $24.95pb

Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet,
by Edward Humes. Ecco Press. $25.99hb

The Environment and World History, edited by Edmund Burke III and Kenneth
Pomeranz. University of California Press. $24.95pb

Fixing Climate Change: What Past Climate Changes Reveal about the Current Threat
- and How to Counter It, by Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig. Hill & Wang.
$15.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Global Warming and the World Trading System, by Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Steve
Charnovitz and Jisun Kim. Peterson Institute for International Economics.
$23.95pb

Green Volunteers: The World Guide to Voluntary Work in Nature Conservation, 7/e,
edited by Fabio Ausenda. Green Volunteers. $16.95pb

Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World, by Sean
Esbjorn-Hargens and Michael E. Zimmerman. Integral Books. $45.00hb

Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity, edited by Eric
Chivian and Aaron Bernstein. Oxford University Press. $34.95hb

The Unnatural History of the Sea, by Callum Roberts. Island Press. $19.95pb

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning, by James Lovelock. Basic Books.
$25.00hb

Birth Models That Work, edited by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, Leslie Barclay,
Betty-Anne Daviss and Jan Tritten. University of California Press. $27.50pb

Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to
AIDS, by Evan S. Lieberman. Princeton University Press. $24.95pb

Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries, Volume 1: Policies for
Health, Nutrition, Food Consumption, and Poverty, edited by Per
Pinstrup-Andersen and Fuzhi Cheng. Cornell University Press. $22.95pb

Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries, Volume 2: Domestic
Policies for Markets, Production, and Environment, edited by Per
Pinstrup-Andersen and Fuzhi Cheng. Cornell University Press. $22.95pb

Case Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries, Volume 3: Institutions and
International Trade Policies, edited by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Fuzhi Cheng.
Cornell University Press. $22.95pb

Challenging Health Economics, by Gavin Mooney. Oxford University Press. $74.00hb

Famine: A Short History, by Cormac O Grada. Princeton University Press. $27.95hb

A Line Drawn in the Sand: Responses to the AIDS Treatment Crisis in Africa,
edited by Phyllis J. Kanki and Richard G. Marlink. Harvard Center for Population
and Development Studies. $30.00pb

Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic 2008. UNAIDS. $40.00pb

World of Work Report 2008: Income Inequalities in the Age of Financial
Globalization. International Labour Office. $50.00pb

Corporate Governance: Principles, Policies, and Practices, by Bob Tricker.
Oxford University Press. $70.00pb

The UN and Transnational Corporations: From Code of Conduct to Global Compact,
by Tagi Sagafi-Nejad in collaboration with John H. Dunning. Indiana University
Press. $24.95pb

The Art of Public Strategy: Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good,
by Geoff Mulgan. Oxford University Press. $49.95hb

Digital Diasporas: Identity and Transnational Engagement, by Jennifer M.
Brinkerhoff. Cambridge University Press. $24.99pb

Internet Governance: Infrastructure and Institutions, edited by Lee A. Bygrave
and Jon Bing. Oxford University Press. $85.00hb

Knowledge Governance: Processes and Perspectives, edited by Nicolai J. Foss and
Snejina Michailova. Oxford University Press. $99.00hb

The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest
Encyclopedia., by Andrew Lih. Hyperion. $24.99hb

Climate Change Adaptation in the Water Sector, edited by Fulco Ludwig, Pavel
Kabat, Henk van Schaik and Michael van der Valk. Earthscan. 97.50hb

Managing Water Resources: Methods and Tools for a Systems Approach, by Slobodan
P. Simonovic. Earthscan. $77.95pb w/CD-ROM

Planet Water: Investing in the World's Most Valuable Resource, by Steve
Hoffmann. Wiley. $39.95hb

Policy and Strategic Behavior in Water Resource Management, edited by Ariel
Dinar and Jose Albiac. Earthscan. $117.00hb

Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling, by Patrick Chabal. Zed Books.
$29.95pb

Africa Now! Emerging Talents from a Continent on the Move. GSD Art Program.
$12.00pb

Africa's Private Sector: What's Wrong with the Business Environment and What to
Do about It, by Vijaya Ramachandran, Alan Gelb and Manju Kedia Shah. Center for
Global Development. $18.95pb.

Africa's Turn?, by Edward Miguel. MIT Press. $14.95hb

After the Party: Corruption, the ANC and South Africa's Uncertain Future, by
Andrew Feinstein. Verso. $26.95hb

The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide, by Jean Hatzfeld.
Farrar Straus & Giroux. $25.00hb

Bring Me My Machine Gun: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa from Mandela to
Zuma, by Alec Russell. PublicAffairs. $26.95hb

Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa, edited by Leo Zeilig. Haymarket Books.
$17.00pb

Guns and Governance in the Rift Valley: Pastoralist Conflict and Small Arms, by
Kennedy Agade Mkutu. Indiana University Press. $22.95pb

Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda, by Lee Ann Fujii. Cornell
University Press. $29.95hb

The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors, edited by
Lindsay Whitfield. Oxford University Press. $60.00hb

Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror, by Mahmood
Mamdani. Pantheon. $26.95hb

The Bitter Sea: Coming of Age in China Before Mao, by Charles N. Li.
HarperCollins. $14.99pb

China High: My Fast Times in the 010, a Beijing Memoir, by ZZ. St. Martin's
Press. $24.95hb

China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation, by David Shambaugh. Woodrow
Wilson Center Press/University of California Press. $21.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Dependent Communities: Aid and Politics in Cambodia and East Timor, by Caroline
Hughes. Cornell University Press. $23.95pb

Economic Transitions with Chinese Characteristics: Thirty Years of Reform and
Opening Up, edited by Arthur Sweetman and Jun Zhang. McGill-Queens University
Press. $39.95pb

Economic Transitions with Chinese Characteristics: Social Change During Thirty
Years of Reform, edited by Arthur Sweetman and Jun Zhang. McGill-Queens
University Press. $39.95pb

The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics, edited by Tineke Hellwig and
Eric Tagliacozzo. Duke University Press. $25.95pb

Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya: Negotiating Urban Space in Malaysia , by Ross King.
University of Hawai'i Press. $36.00pb

The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy, by Minqi Li.
Monthly Review Press. $16.95pb

The State in Myanmar, by Robert H. Taylor. University of Hawai'i Press. $28.00pb

Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918, by Grigoris
Balakian. Alfred A. Knopf. $35.00hb

The European Union Explained: Institutions, Actors, Global Impact, by Andreas
Staab. Indiana University Press. $19.95pb

The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for a Continent, by Walter Laqueur. Thomas
Dunne Books. $14.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Montenegro: A Modern History, by Kenneth Morrison. I. B. Tauris. $49.95hb

The News from Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution., by
Maurice Walsh. I. B. Tauris. $49.95hb

Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul, by Michael Reid. Yale
University Press. $20.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!.

The Obama Administration and the Americas: Agenda for Change, edited by Abraham
F. Lowenthal, Theodore J. Piccone and Laurence Whitehead. Brookings Institution
Press. $28.95pb

Blood and Belief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence, by Aliza
Marcus. New York University Press. $22.00pb

The Confrontation: Winning the War Against Future Jihad, by Walid Phares.
Palgrave Macmillan. $16.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!.

Engaging Iran and Building Peace in the Persian Gulf Region, by Volker Perthes,
Ray Tanakh and Hitoshi Tanaka. The Trilateral Commission. $15.00pb

Engaging the Muslim World, by Juan Cole. Palgrave Macmillan. $26.95hb

Hezbollah: A Short History, by Augustus Richard Norton. Princeton University
Press. $12.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams, by Tahir Shah. Bantam Books.
$13.00 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Iraq: A Political History from Independence to Occupation, by Adeed Dawisha.
Princeton University Press. $29.95hb

Kurdistan: Crafting of National Selves, by Christopher Houston. Indiana
University Press. $27.95pb

The North African Military Balance: Force Developments in the Maghreb, by
Anthony H. Cordesman and Aram Nerguizian. CSIS. $22.95pb

The Persian Night: Iran Under the Khomeinist Revolution, by Amir Tehani.
Encounter Books. $25.95hb

We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work, by Jimmy Carter.
Simon & Schuster. $27.00hb

A History of Bangladesh, by Willem van Schendel. Cambridge University Press.
$24.99pb

A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire, by Sugata
Bose. Harvard University Press. $18.95 NEW IN PAPERBACK!

Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation, by Nandan Nilekani. The Penguin
Press. $29.95hb

India's Global Powerhouses: How They Are Taking on the World, by Nirmalya Kumar
with Pradipta K. Mohapatra and Suj Chandrasekhar. Harvard Business Press.
$27.95hb

Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to
the Present, by Christopher I. Beckwith. Princeton University Press. $35.00hb

The American Heritage Dictionary of Business Terms, by David L. Scott. Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt. $15.95pb.

Washington Internships: How to Get Them and Use Them to Lauch Your Public Policy
Career, by Deirdre Martinez. University of Pennsylvania Press. $19.95pb

The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway. Riverhead Books. $15.00pb

Leaving Tangier, by Tahar Ben Jelloun. Penguin. $15.00pb

Morning and Evening Talk, by Naguib Mahfouz. Anchor Books. $13.95 NEW IN
PAPERBACK!

Wolf Totem, by Jiang Rong. Penguin. $15.00pb

M Is for Mexico., by Flor de Maria Cordero. Frances Lincoln. $16.95hb

Travel Wise: How to Be Safe, Savvy and Secure Abroad, by Ray S. Leki.
Intercultural Press. $22.95pb

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

REMINDER: Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, Bruce Babbitt, and Thomas Friedman discuss "When Nature's Forces Meet Degraded Environments" on Tuesday, April 14th at 2:00 PM in IFC auditorium

The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
Distinguished Seminar Series

(Embedded image moved to file: pic05030.jpg)

PRESENTER
Wangari Maathai
Founder, The Greenbelt Movement & 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Ms. Maathai became the first African woman to receive the Nobel
Peace Prize in 2004 for her contribution to sustainable development,
democracy, and peace. Ms. Maathai, who was born in Nyeri, Kenya, is
the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate
degree. She was active in the National Council of Women of Kenya in
1976-87 and was its chairman in 1981-87. It was while she served in
the National Council of Women that she introduced the idea of
planting trees with the people in 1976 and continued to develop it
into a broad-based, grassroots organization, whose main focus is the
planting of trees with women groups in order to conserve the
environment and improve their quality of life. Through her work with
the Green Belt Movement, she has assisted these groups in planting
more than 20 million trees on their farms, schools, and church
compounds. Her new book, The Challenge for Africa, will be released
in April 2009.

DISCUSSANTS
Bruce Babbitt
Chairman of the Board, World Wildlife Fund
Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona
Mr. Babbitt is Chairman of the Board at the World Wildlife Fund. He
formerly served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1993 to
2001, leading the country in landmark efforts, including the
creation of a forest plan for the Pacific Northwest, restoration of
the Florida Everglades, passage of the California Desert Protection
Act, and legislation for the National Wildlife Refuge System. Before
President Clinton appointed him to national service, Mr. Babbitt
served as Governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987 and as Attorney
General of the state from 1975 to 1978. He wrote Cities in the
Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America (2005), where he
lays out a new vision of land use in America, addressing a breadth
of issues from protection of the Everglades to restoration of tall
grass prairie in Iowa to water development in Arizona, wolf
restoration in Yellowstone, grazing rights in the Southwest, and dam
removal across the country.

Thomas Friedman
Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times
Mr. Friedman, a world-renowned author and journalist, joined The New
York Times in 1981. He won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary,
his third Pulitzer for The New York Times. He has reported on the
Middle East conflict, the end of the cold war, U.S. domestic
politics, foreign policy and international economics. He has
authored a number of books, including The Lexus and the Olive Tree:
Understanding Globalization (1999) and The World is Flat: A Brief
History of the Twenty-first Century (2005). His latest book, Hot,
Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can
Renew America (2008), brings a fresh outlook to the crises of
destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.

MODERATOR
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and
Recovery, World Bank
Mr. Sanghi is leading the ongoing World Bank?UN Assessment on the
Economics of Disaster Risk Reduction. This event is part of a
distinguished seminar series designed to contribute ideas by
individuals such as Kenneth Arrow, Freeman Dyson, Daniel Kahneman,
Howard Kunreuther, William Nordhaus, Richard Posner, Thomas
Schelling, Martin Weitzman, and others on selected themes of the
World Bank?UN Assessment. The next speaker is Edward Prescott, the
2004 Economics Nobel Laureate, on April 24. For more information
about the Assessment, please contact Mr. Sanghi at
asanghi@worldbank.org.

About The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
(GFDRR)
GFDRR is a partnership of the International Strategy for Disaster
Reduction (ISDR) system to support the implementation of the Hyogo
Framework for Action (HFA). The HFA, endorsed by the United Nations
General Assembly in Resolution 60/195, is the primary international
agreement for disaster reduction. One hundred sixty-eight (168)
countries and multilateral organizations including the World Bank
and the United Nations (UN) system participated in the UN World
Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan in January
2005. The principal strategic goal of the HFA is to effectively
integrate, in a coherent manner, disaster risk considerations into
sustainable development policies, planning, programming, and
financing at all levels of government.
For more information, visit GFDRR.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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.