Book Launch: "The Arab Economies in A Changing World" on November 12 at 5:30pm in J1-050

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Peterson Institute for International Economics
cordially invite you to a launch of a new publication
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| | The Arab Economies in A Changing World |
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| | subsequent war in Iraq have focused |
| | international attention on a nexus of |
| | problems involving economic |
| | underperformance, problematic internal |
| | politics, and externalization of domestic |
| | dissent in the Muslim world. This book |
| | examines the economics of the Middle East, |
| | with the aim of identifying changes to |
| | economic policy that could address at |
| | least the economic component of the |
| | challenges facing this part of the globe. |
| | The authors analyze the interaction of |
| | trade, productivity growth, and the |
| | political difficulties that may ensue as |
| | these countries move towards greater |
| | openness. Relevant comparisons are drawn |
| | from the experience of the transition |
| | economies and India on potentially |
| | successful policies and those likely to |
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Praise for The Arab Economies in a Changing World:
". . . the only book to my knowledge that provides a comprehensive
and integrated politico-economic analysis of Arab economic
performance and prospects. It will fill a big need in college
syllabi . . . ."
--Farrukh Iqbal, World Bank

". . . a major addition to a very slim literature on an important
issue."
--Patrick Clawson, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

?This book fulfills a major gap in the literature on Middle Eastern
economies. With universities struggling to add courses on the
political economy of the Middle East, this volume will prove to be a
great resource. . . . Essential"
--Choice

Monday, November 12, 2007
5:30pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

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Presented by
Marcus Noland
Senior fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Mr. Noland's work encompasses a wide range of topics including the
political economy of US trade policy and the Asian financial crisis.
His areas of geographical knowledge and interest include Asia and
Africa where he has lived and worked. In the past he has written
extensively on the economies of Japan, Korea, and China, and is
unique among American economists in having devoted serious scholarly
effort to the problems of North Korea and the prospects for Korean
unification. He won the 2000?01 Ohira Memorial Award for his book
Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two Koreas.He was
educated at Swarthmore College (BA), and the Johns Hopkins
University (PhD). He was a Senior Economist at the Council of
Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President of the
United States and has held research or teaching positions at Yale
University, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Southern
California, Tokyo University, Saitama University (now the National
Graduate Institute for Policy Studies), the University of Ghana, the
Korea Development Institute, and the East-West Center. He has
received fellowships sponsored by the Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Council
for the International Exchange of Scholars, and the Pohang Iron and
Steel Corporation (POSCO).

Howard Pack
Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Mr. Pack has been a professor of economics and professor of business
and public policy at the Wharton School since 1986, and professor of
management there since 1995. He was a consultant at a number of
institutions including the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank,
the Inter-American Development Bank, the Agency for International
Development, and the Overseas Development Council. He was a fellow
at the Harry S. Truman Institute for Peace Research, the Hebrew
University, Jerusalem, and the Jerusalem Institute for Israel
Research at the same university. He is on the editorial boards of
World Bank Research Observer, World Development, Journal of
Development Economics, and World Bank Economic Review. He is
coauthor of The Arab Economies in a Changing World (2007), Famine in
North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform (Columbia University Press,
2007), Industrial Policy in an Era of Globalization: Lessons from
Asia (2003) and author of Productivity, Technology and Industrial
Development (Oxford University Press, l987) and Structural Change
and Economic Policy in Israel (Yale University Press, 1971).
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

About the Peterson Institute
The Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics is a
private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the
study of international economic policy. Since 1981 the Institute has
provided timely and objective analysis of, and concrete solutions
to, a wide range of international economic problems. It is one of
the very few economics think tanks that are widely regarded as
"nonpartisan" by the press and "neutral" by the Congress, and it is
cited by the quality media more than any other such institution.

"Combating Climate Change: Should India Bother?" discussion with Sunita Narain on November 15 at 11:00am in MC2-800

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The South Asia Region Sustainable Development Department
&
The Bank-Fund India Club

cordially invite you to a discussion with Sunita Narain on
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| | India faces the perfect storm: GDP growth rates |
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| g) | planet's climate, even though its role in the |
| | historical build-up of such gases has not been |
| | significant. At the same time, the Indian |
| | sub-continent will expect to feel some of the more |
| | devastating impacts of this changing climate in |
| | this century: premature glacial melt, |
| | desertification, droughts and floods. What are the |
| | options? Should India bother about combating |
| | climate change? |
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
11:00 am to 12:30 pm
MC2-800
1818 H Street, NW Washington D.C, 20433

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Opening Remarks
Karin Kemper
Sector Manager, SASDN

Speaker
Sunita Narain
Director of the Centre for Science and Environment in India
Ms. Sunita Narain heads the Center for Science and Environment, a
leading Indian NGO, which, among other activities, publishes the
State of India's Environment Reports and the Down to Earth magazine.
She is an international environmental activist who has taken strong
positions on many difficult issues - from local democracy to women's
rights to climate change to water. She is currently a member of the
Indian Prime Minister's Advisory Council on Climate Change, and was
a recipient of the prestigious Stockholm Water Prize in 2005.

Comments by
Richard Damania
Senior Environmental Economist, South Asia Sustainable Development
Department

Neeraj Prasad
Vice President, Bank Fund India Club, and Lead Env. Specialist, East
Asia Sustainable Development Department
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Connecting to Compete: Trade Logistics in the Global Economy" discussed in the InfoShop on Wednesday, November 7 at 3:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop, International Trade Department, the Transport Unit, PREM and SDN
Networks

cordially invite you to a launch of a New Report and website, featuring a panel
discussion of the report

Connecting to Compete
Trade Logistics in the Global Economy

With the advent of global supply chains, a new premium is being placed on the
ability to move goods rapidly and reliably. Countries able to connect to the
global logistics web have access to vast new markets; while those whose links
are weak face the large and growing costs of exclusion.

The Logistics Performance Index (LPI), with its indicators, is the first
comprehensive benchmarking tool that measures a country?s logistics performance
along its supply chain. Based on a worldwide survey of global freight
forwarders and express carriers, this first report details logistics performance
in 150 countries.

The study shows that trade logistics, or the capacity to connect to
international markets to ship goods, is critical for developing countries to
improve their competitiveness, reap the benefits of globalization, and fight
poverty more effectively in an increasingly integrated world. It identifies the
factors and policies that explain the wide differences in logistics performance
among countries at similar levels of development and aims to help countries
identify challenges and opportunities to improve their logistics performance.
For more information please visit: www.worldbank.org/lpi

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
3:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
For non bank staff, please rsvp to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org
The event will be followed by a wine and cheese reception

CHAIR
Uri Dadush
Director, International Trade Department, World Bank
Uri Dadush, a French national, became Director of the International Trade
Department of the World Bank in July 2002. This department provides a single
venue for accountability for trade-related work in the institution. In this
position, Mr. Dadush is also responsible for managing the Development Prospects
Group. This Group is responsible for analysis and projections of the world
economy and financial markets and their implications for developing
countries.Mr. Dadush was previously Chair of the Economic Policy Sector Board
and Director of Economic Policy. Prior to joining the World Bank in 1992, Mr.
Dadush was President of the Economist Intelligence Unit, part of The Economist
Group, from 1986 to 1992. He was Group Vice President, International, for Data
Resources, Inc., from 1982 -1986. He has also worked as a consultant with
McKinsey and Co. in Italy and Denmark.
.

SPEAKERS
Jean Francois Arvis
Senior Economist, International Trade Department, World Bank
Mr. Arvis is coordinating knowledge and advisory work in the area of trade
logistics and facilitation. He is responsible for the development of logistics
related indicators and for the Bank?s major project on transit and landlocked
countries. He has extensive involvement in various trade and transportation
projects worldwide. Prior to joining the World Bank, he held various managerial
positions with the French Ministry of Economy and Industry (energy, regulation,
trade, finance and management of development assistance programs).

Monica Alina Mustra
Lead consultant, International Trade Department, World Bank
Mrs. Mustra joined the World Bank in 2004 and has worked on a number of the
Bank?s trade and transport related projects and learning products including
organization of policy dialogues, workshops, seminars, and distance learning
courses. Most recently she contributed to the ?Logistics Performance Indicators
(LPI)? project ? a global initiative of the World Bank Trade Logistics Group.
She is currently acting as the Coordinator for the Global Facilitation
Partnership for Transportation and Trade (GFP) www.gfptt.org.

Prior to joining
the World Bank she worked for the Harvard Center for International Development
(CID), the European Commission, and the Romanian Ministry of Finance.

PANELISTS
Marc Juhel
Sector Manager, Transport, World Bank
Mr. Juhel joined the World Bank in 1992 as a Port Specialist. Before his
appointment as the Sector Manager, he held the position of Transport and
Logistics Adviser in this Bank?s central Transport Division. His specific areas
of expertise are the development planning of port facilities, the economic,
financial and institutional aspects of transport systems, and the integration of
national logistics functions within the international transport system, focusing
in particular on transport and trade facilitation issues. In addition to
managing the work program of the Transport Unit he is also called on to provide
operational guidance to transport projects undertaken by the Bank. He is the
co-leader of the Ports, Rail, Aviation and Logistics (PRAL) Thematic Group and
is co-manager of the Trade Logistics Group established between the Bank?s Trade
and Transport Departments. Before joining the Bank he spent 11 years with a
French Consulting Group and worked in the Ivory Coast and Comoros.

Lauri Ojala
Professor of Logistics, Turku School of Economics
Mr. Ojala's research interests include global logistics and transport policy
issues. He has published in several leading journals of logistics such as the
International Journal of Logistics Management and Physical Distribution (IJLM,
IJLM&PD), and Maritime Policy & Management. Since 2004, and has been the
European Editor of the International Journal of Logistics Management and
Physical Distribution (IJLM&PD). He has worked on numerous research and
development projects on transport and logistics issues for the World Bank,
European Union and OECD, as well as for many governments. He has extensive
experience in transition economies (Caucasus, Central Asia, Baltic, Moldova) as
a consultant for the World Bank. In these positions he developed the concept of
a logistics perception survey, which was implemented as a pilot in 2003 (70
countries), and worldwide (150 countries) in 2006. He has also engaged in a
number of industry-related logistics projects and is active in the promotion of
logistics strategy projects with governmental institutions or the private
sector.

Gene Pentimonti
Senior Consultant, Maersk, Inc.
Formerly Senior Vice President, Government Relations
Until his retirement in September 2007, Mr. Pentimonti was Maersk Inc.'s Senior
Vice President, Government Relations, and in that capacity was responsible for
the company?s legislative, regulatory, and international government affairs.
Before joining Maersk Inc. in 2002, he provided intermodal industry consulting
to both Parsons Brinkerhoff and Lockheed Martin IMS Corporation, and then was
president of Pacer Stacktrain, a division of Pacer International. Beginning in
1996 he was Senior Vice President of the American Trucking Association and also
served as president of their Intermodal Conference leading their advocacy group
of intermodal motor carriers and associates. Prior to joining the American
Trucking Association he held planning, design, engineering, development,
operational, and management roles for over 25 years with the American President
Lines. He played a key role in the planning, engineering, and construction of
the industry?s shift to containerization and has played an integral part in the
evaluation and design of vessels. Among his major accomplishments has been the
engineering, construction and operation of the first doublestack trains.

Alhousseynou Diallo
Economic Counselor, Embassy of Senegal
Mr. Diallo is currently economic counselor at the Embassy of Senegal in
Washington. He is a Senior Customs Official and was until recently adviser to
the Minister of Finance. He has been involved in the design and implementation
of major reforms and facilitation initiatives in Senegal. He has also taught
fiscal policies and financial management at the University of Dakar.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the International Trade Department
The Bank?s trade strategy aims at helping countries benefit from increased
globalization and making the world trading system more supportive of
development. It focuses on integrating trade and competitiveness into national
development strategies through improving incentives for private investment in
tradable sectors (e.g., reforms in tariffs, and tax policies); reducing the
costs of trading (e.g., improving key producer services and trade facilitation);
and targeted policies to promote competitiveness (e.g., strengthening standards
awareness and management capacities, and export promotion).
In recent years, the World Bank has scaled up support for trade-related reform
through analytical and advisory services, sustained policy dialogue, financial
assistance, technical assistance, and capacity building. Bank lending ?
concessional and nonconcessional ? has grown from about US$400 million in total
commitments in FY2000 to about US$1.6 billion in FY06 and FY07, strongly driven
by trade-related infrastructure in support of regional integration, export
development and competitiveness, and trade facilitation. Loans involved 42
countries and four multi-country loans, with the majority of lending going to
Europe and Central Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Bank country strategy is complemented and underpinned by a global agenda of
advocacy, analysis, and provision of data, tools, and training on trade.
For more information, please visit: www.worldbank.org/trade

About the Transport Unit:
The mission of the transport group in the Bank is to assist clients to reduce
poverty by improving the efficiency and equity of transport policy and
interventions. Transport group will work with the public and private sectors and
communities to enhance the capacity of transport institutions to provide
sustainable infrastructure and services.
The Transport Sector generates a very significant part of the Bank?s activities.
It successfully delivered $33.5 billion (over 14 percent of WBG portfolio)
through the 1998-2007 decade. FY07 lending has reached $5 billion, amounting to
20 percent of World Bank Group's new annual commitments.
For more information, please visit: www.worldbank.org/transport

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

"Connecting to Compete: Trade Logistics in the Global Economy" discussed in the InfoShop on Wednesday, November 7 at 3:00pm in J1-050

(Embedded image moved to file: pic05945.jpg)

International Trade Department, the Transport Unit, PREM and SDN
Networks

cordially invite you to a launch of a New Report and website,
featuring a panel discussion of the report
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| | |
| | Connecting to Compete |
| | Trade Logistics in the Global Economy |
| | |
| | With the advent of global supply chains, |
| (Embedded image | a new premium is being placed on the |
| moved to file: | ability to move goods rapidly and |
| pic26806.jpg) | reliably. Countries able to connect to |
| | the global logistics web have access to |
| | vast new markets; while those whose links |
| | are weak face the large and growing costs |
| | of exclusion. |
| | |
| | The Logistics Performance Index (LPI), |
| | with its indicators, is the first |
| | comprehensive benchmarking tool that |
| | measures a country?s logistics |
| | performance along its supply chain. |
| | Based on a worldwide survey of global |
| | freight forwarders and express carriers, |
| | this first report details logistics |
| | performance in 150 countries. |
| | |
| | The study shows that trade logistics, or |
| | the capacity to connect to international |
| | markets to ship goods, is critical for |
| | developing countries to improve their |
| | competitiveness, reap the benefits of |
| | globalization, and fight poverty more |
| | effectively in an increasingly integrated |
| | world. It identifies the factors and |
| | policies that explain the wide |
| | differences in logistics performance |
| | among countries at similar levels of |
| | development and aims to help countries |
| | identify challenges and opportunities to |
| | improve their logistics performance. |
| | For more information please visit: |
| |

www.worldbank.org/lpi

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| | |
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007
3:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050

Note: This button will also add the event to your Lotus Notes calendar

The event will be followed by a wine and cheese reception

CHAIR
Uri Dadush
Director, International Trade Department, World Bank
Uri Dadush, a French national, became Director of the International
Trade Department of the World Bank in July 2002. This department
provides a single venue for accountability for trade-related work in
the institution. In this position, Mr. Dadush is also responsible
for managing the Development Prospects Group. This Group is
responsible for analysis and projections of the world economy and
financial markets and their implications for developing
countries.Mr. Dadush was previously Chair of the Economic Policy
Sector Board and Director of Economic Policy. Prior to joining the
World Bank in 1992, Mr. Dadush was President of the Economist
Intelligence Unit, part of The Economist Group, from 1986 to 1992.
He was Group Vice President, International, for Data Resources,
Inc., from 1982 -1986. He has also worked as a consultant with
McKinsey and Co. in Italy and Denmark.
.

SPEAKERS
Jean Francois Arvis
Senior Economist, International Trade Department, World Bank
Mr. Arvis is coordinating knowledge and advisory work in the area of
trade logistics and facilitation. He is responsible for the
development of logistics related indicators and for the Bank?s major
project on transit and landlocked countries. He has extensive
involvement in various trade and transportation projects worldwide.
Prior to joining the World Bank, he held various managerial
positions with the French Ministry of Economy and Industry (energy,
regulation, trade, finance and management of development assistance
programs).

Monica Alina Mustra
Lead consultant, International Trade Department, World Bank
Mrs. Mustra joined the World Bank in 2004 and has worked on a number
of the Bank?s trade and transport related projects and learning
products including organization of policy dialogues, workshops,
seminars, and distance learning courses. Most recently she
contributed to the ?Logistics Performance Indicators (LPI)? project
? a global initiative of the World Bank Trade Logistics Group. She
is currently acting as the Coordinator for the Global Facilitation
Partnership for Transportation and Trade (GFP) www.gfptt.org.

Prior
to joining the World Bank she worked for the Harvard Center for
International Development (CID), the European Commission, and the
Romanian Ministry of Finance.

PANELISTS
Marc Juhel
Sector Manager, Transport, World Bank
Mr. Juhel joined the World Bank in 1992 as a Port Specialist.
Before his appointment as the Sector Manager, he held the position
of Transport and Logistics Adviser in this Bank?s central Transport
Division. His specific areas of expertise are the development
planning of port facilities, the economic, financial and
institutional aspects of transport systems, and the integration of
national logistics functions within the international transport
system, focusing in particular on transport and trade facilitation
issues. In addition to managing the work program of the Transport
Unit he is also called on to provide operational guidance to
transport projects undertaken by the Bank. He is the co-leader of
the Ports, Rail, Aviation and Logistics (PRAL) Thematic Group and is
co-manager of the Trade Logistics Group established between the
Bank?s Trade and Transport Departments. Before joining the Bank he
spent 11 years with a French Consulting Group and worked in the
Ivory Coast and Comoros.

Lauri Ojala
Professor of Logistics, Turku School of Economics
Mr. Ojala's research interests include global logistics and
transport policy issues. He has published in several leading
journals of logistics such as the International Journal of Logistics
Management and Physical Distribution (IJLM, IJLM&PD), and Maritime
Policy & Management. Since 2004, and has been the European Editor of
the International Journal of Logistics Management and Physical
Distribution (IJLM&PD). He has worked on numerous research and
development projects on transport and logistics issues for the World
Bank, European Union and OECD, as well as for many governments. He
has extensive experience in transition economies (Caucasus, Central
Asia, Baltic, Moldova) as a consultant for the World Bank. In these
positions he developed the concept of a logistics perception survey,
which was implemented as a pilot in 2003 (70 countries), and
worldwide (150 countries) in 2006. He has also engaged in a number
of industry-related logistics projects and is active in the
promotion of logistics strategy projects with governmental
institutions or the private sector.

Gene Pentimonti
Senior Consultant, Maersk, Inc.
Formerly Senior Vice President, Government Relations
Until his retirement in September 2007, Mr. Pentimonti was Maersk
Inc.'s Senior Vice President, Government Relations, and in that
capacity was responsible for the company?s legislative, regulatory,
and international government affairs. Before joining Maersk Inc. in
2002, he provided intermodal industry consulting to both Parsons
Brinkerhoff and Lockheed Martin IMS Corporation, and then was
president of Pacer Stacktrain, a division of Pacer International.
Beginning in 1996 he was Senior Vice President of the American
Trucking Association and also served as president of their
Intermodal Conference leading their advocacy group of intermodal
motor carriers and associates. Prior to joining the American
Trucking Association he held planning, design, engineering,
development, operational, and management roles for over 25 years
with the American President Lines. He played a key role in the
planning, engineering, and construction of the industry?s shift to
containerization and has played an integral part in the evaluation
and design of vessels. Among his major accomplishments has been the
engineering, construction and operation of the first doublestack
trains.

Alhousseynou Diallo
Economic Counselor, Embassy of Senegal
Mr. Diallo is currently economic counselor at the Embassy of Senegal
in Washington. He is a Senior Customs Official and was until
recently adviser to the Minister of Finance. He has been involved in
the design and implementation of major reforms and facilitation
initiatives in Senegal. He has also taught fiscal policies and
financial management at the University of Dakar.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the International Trade Department
The Bank?s trade strategy aims at helping countries benefit from
increased globalization and making the world trading system more
supportive of development. It focuses on integrating trade and
competitiveness into national development strategies through
improving incentives for private investment in tradable sectors
(e.g., reforms in tariffs, and tax policies); reducing the costs of
trading (e.g., improving key producer services and trade
facilitation); and targeted policies to promote competitiveness
(e.g., strengthening standards awareness and management capacities,
and export promotion).
In recent years, the World Bank has scaled up support for
trade-related reform through analytical and advisory services,
sustained policy dialogue, financial assistance, technical
assistance, and capacity building. Bank lending ? concessional and
nonconcessional ? has grown from about US$400 million in total
commitments in FY2000 to about US$1.6 billion in FY06 and FY07,
strongly driven by trade-related infrastructure in support of
regional integration, export development and competitiveness, and
trade facilitation. Loans involved 42 countries and four
multi-country loans, with the majority of lending going to Europe
and Central Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Bank country strategy is complemented and underpinned by a
global agenda of advocacy, analysis, and provision of data, tools,
and training on trade.
For more information, please visit: www.worldbank.org/trade

About the Transport Unit:
The mission of the transport group in the Bank is to assist clients
to reduce poverty by improving the efficiency and equity of
transport policy and interventions. Transport group will work with
the public and private sectors and communities to enhance the
capacity of transport institutions to provide sustainable
infrastructure and services.
The Transport Sector generates a very significant part of the Bank?s
activities. It successfully delivered $33.5 billion (over 14 percent
of WBG portfolio) through the 1998-2007 decade. FY07 lending has
reached $5 billion, amounting to 20 percent of World Bank Group's
new annual commitments.
For more information, please visit: www.worldbank.org/transport

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: Documentary screening and discussion with Farzin Rezaeian - "Iran: Seven Faces of a Civilization" on November 5 at 12:00pm in Preston Auditorium

InfoShop & MNAVP cordially Invite you to a attend the screening of a
documentary
that showcases numerous examples of some 7000 years of Iran's celebrated
culture, art and architecture
IRAN: Seven Faces of a Civilization
By Farzin Rezaeian

Film Screening
Drawing on historical and archeological evidence, this fascinating documentary
by Dr. Farzin Rezaeian reconstructs 7,000 years of Iranian history. Produced by
the makers of Persepolis Recreated, the film?s advanced animation techniques
bring ancient wonders to life, giving an unprecedented look at Iran?s historical
and cultural achievements.

In his accompanying book, Rezaeian has reconstructed the major monuments from
seven key periods in Iranian history, bringing to life the settings in which
Iranian civilization developed and the context through which the greatest
figures of Iranian history, from Cyrus the Great (the Achaemenid Emperor) to
Shah Abbas (the Safavid King), can be understood.

The package, available for purchase during the event, includes a
Persian/English narrative book and DVD film, showcasing Iran's art and
architectural heritage with excellent graphic reconstructions superimposed on
the actual architectural remains from 4000 B.C. to the 17th century A.D.

Monday, November 5, 2007
12:00pm
PRESTON AUDITORIUM
1818 H Street NW,Washington DC, 20433
For non bank staff, please RSVP to infoShopevents@worldbank.org

Opening remarks by
Daniela Gressani
Regional Vice President of Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank

Presented by filmmaker
Farzin Rezaeian
Farzin Rezaeian is an award-winning documentarian and educational film producer
and director. He studied sociology, political science and communications at the
University of Illinois in Chicago. For the past twenty years he has researched
and written for many educational and documentary films that he has produced or
directed.

Discussed by
Farrukh Iqbal
Sector Manager, Social and Economic Development Department, Middle East and
North Africa Region
Farrukh Iqbal is a Sector Manager in the Middle East and North Africa region of
the World Bank. He has more than twenty years of experience with the Bank
across a diverse range of countries (including Korea, Philippines, Indonesia,
China, Egypt, and Iran) and a broad range of topics (including structural
adjustment programs, small and medium enterprises, local government development
and poverty). He has a bachelor?s degree from Harvard University and a Ph. D.
in economics from Yale University. His present responsibilities cover many
aspects of economic development in Iran.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: Documentary screening and discussion with Farzin Rezaein - "Iran: Seven Faces of a Civilization" on November 5 at 12:00pm in Preston Auditorium

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Cordially Invite you to a attend the screening of a documentary
that showcases numerous examples of some 7000 years of Iran's celebrated
culture, art and architecture
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| IRAN: Seven Faces of a | |
| Civilization | |
| By Farzin Rezaeian | |
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| | Drawing on historical and |
| | archeological evidence, this |
| The package, available for | fascinating documentary by Dr. |
| purchase during the event, | Farzin Rezaeian reconstructs 7,000 |
| includes a Persian/English | years of Iranian history. Produced |
| narrative book and DVD | by the makers of Persepolis |
| film, showcasing Iran's art | Recreated, the film?s advanced |
| and architectural heritage | animation techniques bring ancient |
| with excellent graphic | wonders to life, giving an |
| reconstructions | unprecedented look at Iran?s |
| superimposed on the actual | historical and cultural |
| architectural remains from | achievements. |
| 4000 B.C. to the 17th | |
| century A.D. | In his accompanying book, Rezaeian |
| | has reconstructed the major |
| | monuments from seven key periods |
| | in Iranian history, bringing to |
| | life the settings in which Iranian |
| | civilization developed and the |
| | context through which the greatest |
| | figures of Iranian history, from |
| | Cyrus the Great (the Achaemenid |
| | Emperor) to Shah Abbas (the |
| | Safavid King), can be understood. |
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Monday, November 5, 2007
12:00pm
PRESTON AUDITORIUM
1818 H Street NW,Washington DC, 20433

For non bank staff, please RSVP to infoShopevents@worldbank.org

Opening remarks by
Daniela Gressani
Regional Vice President of Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank

Presented by filmmaker
Farzin Rezaeian
Farzin Rezaeian is an award-winning documentarian and educational
film producer and director. He studied sociology, political science
and communications at the University of Illinois in Chicago. For the
past twenty years he has researched and written for many educational
and documentary films that he has produced or directed.

Discussed by
Farrukh Iqbal
Sector Manager, Social and Economic Development Department, Middle East and
North Africa Region
Farrukh Iqbal is a Sector Manager in the Middle East and North
Africa region of the World Bank. He has more than twenty years of
experience with the Bank across a diverse range of countries
(including Korea, Philippines, Indonesia, China, Egypt, and Iran)
and a broad range of topics (including structural adjustment
programs, small and medium enterprises, local government development
and poverty). He has a bachelor?s degree from Harvard University
and a Ph. D. in economics from Yale University. His present
responsibilities cover many aspects of economic development in Iran.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

Vito Tanzi in the InfoShop on November 8 at 3:00pm in J1-050

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invites you to a book launch featuring a recent publication
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| | Argentina: An Economic Chronicle |
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| pic20493.jpg) | Argentina started the 20th Century as one of |
| | the richest ten country in the world. For a |
| | while its economic position in the world was |
| | comparable to that of, say, Germany today. It |
| | had a per capita income much higher than that |
| | of Japan and Italy and comparable to that of |
| | France. However, it ended the century on the |
| | eve of the largest default in history. How did |
| | this dramatic change come about? In this |
| | unusual book, not based on library research but |
| | mostly on first hand and direct observations, |
| | the author takes the reader through a |
| | fascinating ride through time. The reader is |
| | introduced to the concept of fiscal cycles and |
| | the economic landscape of this fascinating |
| | country. The book is written in a style that |
| | will make it accessible and interesting to a |
| | general reader. |
| | |
| | This book is a must reading for anyone |
| | interested in understanding the Argentina of |
| | today and yesterday. Highly recommended. Andrés |
| | Solimano Regional Advisor UN-ECLAC. Former |
| | Country Director at the World Bank and |
| | Executive Director at the IDB |
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Thursday, November 8, 2007
3:00 pm
World Bank J Building, J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

CHAIR
Luca Barbone

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Vito Tanzi
For 27 years, Vito Tanzi was a senior staff member of the
International Monetary Fund. He was the director of the Fiscal
Affairs Department of the IMF. He also was an Undersecretary for
Economy and Finance in the Italian Government. A professional
economist with a PhD from Harvard, he is considered a leading expert
in fiscal policy. The author of many books and hundreds of articles
in professional journals, he has given a named "effect" to
economics, the "Tanzi Effect". He has been a consultant to many
international organizations including the United Nations, the World
Bank, the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the
Inter-American Development Bank. In 1994 he was President of the
International Institute of Public Finance of which he is now
Honorary President.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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