REMINDER - "Elephant and the Dragon:The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us" discussed at the InfoShop on July 18 at 3:00pm in J1-050

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&
The Development Research Group
Invite you to a book launch of a recent WW Norton publication
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| | The Elephant and the Dragon |
| | The Rise of India and China and What |
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| | A compelling look at the major |
| | changes in store as America faces |
| | increasing competition from two |
| | emerging Asian giants. |
| | |
| | |
| | Not since the United States rose to |
| | prominence a century ago have we |
| | seen such tectonic shifts in global |
| | power; but India and China are |
| | vastly different nations, with |
| | opposing economic and political |
| | strategies?strategies we must |
| | understand in order to survive in |
| | the new global economy. The Elephant |
| | and the Dragon tells how these two |
| | Asian nations, each with more than a |
| | billion people, have spurred a new |
| | ?gold rush,? and what this will mean |
| | for the rest of the world. |
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Wednesday July 18th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

Moderated by
Will Martin
Lead Economist in the Trade Research Team, World Bank
Before joining the World Bank, Mr. Martin worked as a researcher and
manager at the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource
Economics, and as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian
National University. He has published extensively on trade policy
and developing countries, with a particular focus on the World Trade
Organization and economic development; global trade reform in
textiles and clothing; and agricultural trade reform. Quantitative
analysis of trade policies is a particular interest. He has
published widely using quantitative models such as the Global Trade
Analysis Project, and has a particular interest in using detailed
data to build up a complete picture of the effects of trade barriers
on trade and welfare. He teaches frequently in World Bank training
courses, and is manager of a number of large Bank research projects.

Presented by Author
Robyn Meredith
Senior Editor, Asia for Forbes Magazine
Robyn Meredith has written cover stories on General Motors,
Microsoft, Toyota, Li & Fung and Infosys. Ms. Meredith joined
Forbes as its Detroit Bureau Manager in April, 2000 to write about
the auto industry. One of her Forbes articles was included in the
2002 Edition of the book "The Best Business Stories of the Year."
From January, 1996 until April, 2000, Ms. Meredith was a Detroit
correspondent for The New York Times, where she covered the auto
industry and other Midwestern news. She spent the 1998-1999
academic year as a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of
Michigan Business School. Ms. Meredith wrote for USA Today as a
business reporter in 1995. She spent the previous two years as a
reporter in the Washington bureau of the American Banker newspaper,
where her reporting exposed a pattern of insider deals at savings
and loans that led to four Congressional hearings and an overhaul of
U.S. banking regulations governing initial public offerings.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

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REMINDER: "The Global Family Planning Revolution: Three Decades of Policies and Programs" and "Population Issues in the 21st Century: The Role of the World Bank" discussed in the H Auditorium on Wednesday, July 18 at noon

InfoShop and Health, Nutrition & Population Team, World Bank cordially invite to
a panel discussion featuring two recent publications

The Global Family Planning Revolution:
Three Decades of Policies and Programs
Edited by Warren Robinson and John Ross

The striking upsurge in population growth rates in developing countries after
the close of World War II gave birth to the first national programs designed to
reduce fertility rates. The new technologies of the IUD and the pill armed
these programs with methods that made birth control easier, both for couples and
for large-scale administration. By the late 1960s and early 1970s national
programs covered much of the developing world. Since then they have continued to
spread: contraception is now used by over 60 percent of couples, and fertility
rates have fallen by half. This new volume sets forth the remarkable record of
this success. Its unique contribution lies in the 23 country case studies that
document the diverse forms the programs took, how they were administered and
funded, how they educated the public, how they were evaluated, and how they were
made to fit local conditions. The analyses provide valuable guidance to
emerging health-related policy objectives and responses to global challenges.

Population Issues in the 21st Century:
The Role of the World Bank

The objective of this paper is to discuss some obstacles and opportunities
presented by population processes in order to prioritize areas for investment
and analytical work as background information for the 2007 HNP Sector Strategy.
Fertility has declined in most of the low- and middle-income countries, with
TFRs converging toward replacement level, except in 35 countries, mainly in
Sub-Saharan Africa, where a broad-based decline in fertility has not occurred.
As the priorities of donors and development agencies have shifted toward other
issues, and global funds and initiatives have largely bypassed funding of family
planning, less attention is being focused on the consequences of high fertility.
Reproductive health is conspicuously absent from the MDGs, and assistance to
countries to meet the demand for family planning and related services is
insufficient.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007
12:00 pm
World Bank H Building, Eugene R. Black Auditorium
600 19th Street, NW
A light lunch will be served
*PHOTO ID AND RSVP REQUIRED* infoshopevents@worldbank.org

CO-CHAIRS
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President, Human Development Network
Prior to joining the Bank, Ms. Phumaphi worked at the World Health Organization
as the Assistant Director General for Family and Community Health Department.
Before that, she served in the Parliament and as Minister for Health of
Botswana.

Praful Patel
Vice President, South Asia Region
Since joining the Bank in January 1974 as part of the Young Professionals
Program, Mr. Patel has held various technical and managerial positions. In
2003, he was promoted to his current position as Regional Vice President, South
Asia. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Patel worked in Kenya in private practice
and for the Housing Research and Development Unit at the University of Nairobi,
and as Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

PRESENTERS
Steven Sinding
Former Director-General, IPPF

Rama Lakshminarayanan
Senior Health Specialist, HDNHE

DISCUSSANT
Peter Donaldson
President, Population Council

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

REMINDER: "The Global Family Planning Revolution: Three Decades of Policies and Programs" and "Population Issues in the 21st Century: The Role of the World Bank" discussed in the H Auditorium on Wednesday, July 18 at noon

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and
Health, Nutrition & Population Team, World Bank
cordially invite to a panel discussion featuring two recent
publications
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| | |
| | The Global Family Planning |
| | Revolution: |
| (Embedded image moved to | Three Decades of Policies and |
| file: pic21363.jpg) | Programs |
| | Edited by Warren Robinson and John |
| | Ross |
| | |
| (Embedded image moved to | The striking upsurge in population |
| file: pic00028.jpg) | growth rates in developing countries |
| | after the close of World War II gave |
| | birth to the first national programs |
| | designed to reduce fertility rates. |
| | The new technologies of the IUD and |
| | the pill armed these programs with |
| | methods that made birth control |
| | easier, both for couples and for |
| | large-scale administration. By the |
| | late 1960s and early 1970s national |
| | programs covered much of the |
| | developing world. Since then they |
| | have continued to spread: |
| | contraception is now used by over 60 |
| | percent of couples, and fertility |
| | rates have fallen by half. This new |
| | volume sets forth the remarkable |
| | record of this success. Its unique |
| | contribution lies in the 23 country |
| | case studies that document the |
| | diverse forms the programs took, how |
| | they were administered and funded, |
| | how they educated the public, how |
| | they were evaluated, and how they |
| | were made to fit local conditions. |
| | The analyses provide valuable |
| | guidance to emerging health-related |
| | policy objectives and responses to |
| | global challenges. |
| | |
| | Population Issues in the 21st |
| | Century: |
| | The Role of the World Bank |
| | |
| | The objective of this paper is to |
| | discuss some obstacles and |
| | opportunities presented by |
| | population processes in order to |
| | prioritize areas for investment and |
| | analytical work as background |
| | information for the 2007 HNP Sector |
| | Strategy. Fertility has declined in |
| | most of the low- and middle-income |
| | countries, with TFRs converging |
| | toward replacement level, except in |
| | 35 countries, mainly in Sub-Saharan |
| | Africa, where a broad-based decline |
| | in fertility has not occurred. As |
| | the priorities of donors and |
| | development agencies have shifted |
| | toward other issues, and global |
| | funds and initiatives have largely |
| | bypassed funding of family planning, |
| | less attention is being focused on |
| | the consequences of high fertility. |
| | Reproductive health is conspicuously |
| | absent from the MDGs, and assistance |
| | to countries to meet the demand for |
| | family planning and related services |
| | is insufficient. |
| | |
|---------------------------+--------------------------------------|

Wednesday, July 18, 2007
12:00 pm
World Bank H Building, Eugene R. Black Auditorium
600 19th Street, NW
A light lunch will be served

CO-CHAIRS
Joy Phumaphi
Vice President, Human Development Network
Prior to joining the Bank, Ms. Phumaphi worked at the World Health
Organization as the Assistant Director General for Family and
Community Health Department. Before that, she served in the
Parliament and as Minister for Health of Botswana.

Praful Patel
Vice President, South Asia Region
Since joining the Bank in January 1974 as part of the Young
Professionals Program, Mr. Patel has held various technical and
managerial positions. In 2003, he was promoted to his current
position as Regional Vice President, South Asia. Prior to joining
the Bank, Mr. Patel worked in Kenya in private practice and for the
Housing Research and Development Unit at the University of Nairobi,
and as Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT).

PRESENTERS
Steven Sinding
Former Director-General, IPPF

Rama Lakshminarayanan
Senior Health Specialist, HDNHE

DISCUSSANT
Peter Donaldson
President, Population Council

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

reminder: "Iron Ladies of Liberia" discussed at the InfoShop on July 16, 2007, at 12:30pm in J1-050

InfoShop, External Affairs Corporate Communications, World Bank and Africa
External Affairs, World Bank
invite you to a screening of highlights from the upcoming documentary
IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA
Directors: Siatta Johnson and Daniel Junge
After nearly two decades of civil war, Liberia is a nation ready for change. On
January 16 2006, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was inaugurated President. She is the
first ever freely elected female head of state in Africa. Winning a hotly
contested election with the overwhelming support of women across Liberia, since
taking office she has appointed other extraordinary women to leadership
positions in all areas of government. Can the first female Liberian president
bring sustainable democracy and peace to such a devastated country? With
exclusive access, African director Siatta Johnson follows President Sirleaf and
her closest aides behind the scenes during their first year in office.
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Monday, July 16, 2007
12:30pm
World Bank J Building (J1-050)
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

Introduction by
Carl Patrick Hanlon
Manager, EXTCC, The World Bank

Discussion by filmmaker:
Siatta Johnson
Siatta Scott-Johnson was born in Buchanan, Liberia in 1974 and raised in rural
Grand Bassa County. She speaks English, Liberia Dialect English, and Bassa
fluently and is the mother of two (Kundu,12 and Mosiatta, 8). Johnson fled
Grand Bassa in the early 90?s with the outbreak of war, and eventually settled
in Monrovia, where she was caught during the last of the violence in 2003. She
has been an instructor at the secondary school level in Monrovia for three
years, and she has five years of experience as a reporter and producer at DCTV,
one of Liberia?s few broadcast television stations.
Siatta is a founding member of Omuahtee Africa Media.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

REMINDER: "Iron Ladies of Liberia" discussed at the InfoShop on July 16, 2007, at 12:30pm in J1-050

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External Affairs Corporate Communications, World Bank
and
Africa External Affairs, World Bank

Invite you to a screening of highlights from the upcoming documentary
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| | IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA |
| | Directors: Siatta Johnson |
| (Embedded image moved to file: | and Daniel Junge |
| pic14788.jpg) | |
| | After nearly two decades of |
| | civil war, Liberia is a |
| | nation ready for change. On |
| | January 16 2006, Ellen |
| | Johnson Sirleaf was |
| | inaugurated President. She |
| | is the first ever freely |
| | elected female head of |
| | state in Africa. Winning a |
| | hotly contested election |
| | with the overwhelming |
| | support of women across |
| | Liberia, since taking |
| | office she has appointed |
| | other extraordinary women |
| | to leadership positions in |
| | all areas of government. |
| | Can the first female |
| | Liberian president bring |
| | sustainable democracy and |
| | peace to such a devastated |
| | country? With exclusive |
| | access, African director |
| | Siatta Johnson follows |
| | President Sirleaf and her |
| | closest aides behind the |
| | scenes during their first |
| | year in office. |
|------------------------------------+-----------------------------|

Monday, July 16, 2007
12:30pm
World Bank J Building (J1-050)
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)

Introduction by
Carl Patrick Hanlon
Manager, EXTCC, The World Bank

Discussion by filmmaker:
Siatta Johnson
Siatta Scott-Johnson was born in Buchanan, Liberia in 1974 and
raised in rural Grand Bassa County. She speaks English, Liberia
Dialect English, and Bassa fluently and is the mother of two
(Kundu,12 and Mosiatta, 8). Johnson fled Grand Bassa in the early
90?s with the outbreak of war, and eventually settled in Monrovia,
where she was caught during the last of the violence in 2003. She
has been an instructor at the secondary school level in Monrovia for
three years, and she has five years of experience as a reporter and
producer at DCTV, one of Liberia?s few broadcast television
stations.
Siatta is a founding member of Omuahtee Africa Media.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

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REMINDER: "Beyond Disasters: Creating Opportunities for Peace" discussed on July 13 at 12:30-2:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop, Worldwatch Institute and the World Bank Institute cordially invite you
to a book launch:

"Beyond Disasters: Creating Opportunities for Peace"
This book examines the recent experiences of Indonesia?s Aceh province, Sri
Lanka, and Kashmir, among others, and suggests ways to better integrate disaster
and conflict responses. The authors note that the human toll taken by natural
disasters is increasing, adding to the list of deadly challenges faced by poor
communities and countries worldwide. Recorded disasters nearly doubled between
1987 and 2006, while the number of people affected by these disasters increased
more than 10 percent. Women, children, and the elderly are among those most
vulnerable. The report concludes that the intersection of disasters, conflict,
and peacemaking requires interdisciplinary responses from governments,
international donors, and civil society.

Friday, July 13, 2007
12:30 - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1 - 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
Coffee and cookies will be served
RSVP required to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

Welcoming remarks
Rakesh Nangia
Acting Vice President, World Bank Institute

Chair
SAROJ KUMAR JHA
Program Manager, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR),
World Bank Group

Saroj Kumar Jha provides strategic guidance and policy advice for the World
Bank?s disaster prevention and preparedness programs and is also the program
manager of the GFDRR. Prior to joining the Bank, he was a member of the Indian
Administrative Service and worked with the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) in India and Iran. He has coordinated a large number of post-disaster
humanitarian relief and long-term recovery and reconstruction projects, and has
worked extensively on the design of early warning systems, assessments, training
and capacity building programs, policy and institution-building initiatives, and
partnerships for disaster prevention and mitigation in different countries. He
holds a degree in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in
Kanpur and has authored several publications on disaster risk reduction.

Presenters
ZOE CHAFE
Co-Author and Research Associate, Worldwatch Institute

Since joining the Worldwatch Institute in 2003, Zoë Chafe has been a frequent
contributor to Worldwatch publications, including State of the World, Vital
Signs, and World Watch magazine. Her recent work focuses on carbon markets,
natural disaster trends, urbanization, and strategies for confronting climate
change. Prior to joining Worldwatch Institute, she worked with the Center on
Ecotourism and Sustainable Development in Washington, DC, the Centre for Science
and Environment in New Delhi, the US Forest Service, the Rocky Mountain
Biological Laboratory, and SustainUS.

MICHAEL RENNER
Co-Author and Senior Researcher, Worldwatch Institute

Michael Renner joined Worldwatch Institute in 1987. His work focuses on new
concepts of security and the ways in which environmental degradation and
competition over resources can generate conflict and human insecurity. He
co-directed Worldwatch's State of the World 2005 report focused on "Redefining
Global Security" and currently directs its Global Security Project. He has
traveled and spoken extensively on environment and security issues, and has led
discussions with policymakers and parliamentarians at the European Parliament
and the Organization for Co-operation and Security in Europe (OSCE). He holds
degrees in political science and international relations from the Universities
of Konstanz (Germany) and Amsterdam.

Commentary
ERIC SCHWARTZ
Executive Director of Connect US

Prior to joining Connect US in 2007, Eric Schwartz served as UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Deputy Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery. Among
other positions, he has also served as a lead expert for the congressionally
mandated Mitchell-Gingrich Task Force on United Nations Reform, second-ranking
official at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and a
member of the US National Security Council with responsibilities for a range of
peacekeeping, humanitarian, and refugee issues. He has held fellowships at the
Woodrow Wilson Center, the US Institute of Peace and the Council on Foreign
Relations, and has been a contributor to the Responsibility to Protect Project
of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. He holds
degrees in law, international relations, and political science from New York
University School of Law, Princeton University, and the State University of New
York at Binghamton.

IAN BANNON
Sector Manager of the Fragile States, Conflict and Social Development Unit,
Africa Region, World Bank

Prior to his current assignment he was manager of the Conflict Prevention and
Reconstruction Unit, and has published widely on conflict and development
themes, including natural resources, education, social development and gender.
He is an economist by training with experience in South Asia, Africa and 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, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0