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

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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.

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

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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

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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

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

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

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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.