"Transforming Government, Empowering Communities, and Building the Knowledge Economy" on Tuesday, January 15 at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop events are now available for the learning catalog, please register on
the following link:

http://lms.worldbank.org/topclass/tce730iis.dll?Plugin-catreg-enroll-1620376

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Finance and Private Sector Development Unit, South Asia Region
&
e-Development Thematic Group

invite you to a book launch and dissemination seminar of two volumes
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| | sustainable to the majority of population? How |
| | can ICT be deployed to transform government |
| | services and make public agencies more |
| | client-centered? What kinds of innovation systems |
| | can promote the application of ICT to serve local |
| | needs, rural areas and the poor? And what does |
| | it take to build institutions to lead the |
| | movement towards ICT-enabled competitive |
| | economies and inclusive information societies? |
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| | The two volumes respond to these challenges |
| | presenting a concrete case study of how one |
| | country is bridging the gap between vision and |
| | actionable programs. E-Sri Lanka is an |
| | integrated, client-driven program and the first |
| | of its kind to be funded by the World Bank. It is |
| | about investing in the necessary policies, |
| | institutions, capabilities, infrastructures, and |
| | information technology applications for a poor |
| | country to join the global knowledge economy, |
| | transform public services, and empower local |
| | communities. |
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| | The event will also be available via live |
| | webcast: |
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http://www.worldbank.org/edevelopment/live

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building Auditorium J1 - 050
701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A reception will follow the presentation

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OPENING REMARKS BY
Praful Patel
Vice President, South Asia Region, World Bank

MODERATED BY
Simon Bell
Manager, Finance and Private Sector Development, South Asia, World Bank

PRESENTED BY
Nagy Hanna
Author; Senior Research Fellow at University of Maryland; former senior advisor
at World Bank

COMMENTS BY
Philippe Dongier
Manager, Communication and Information Technology Policy, Global ICT Department,
World Bank

Manju Haththotuwa
Former CEO of Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri
Lanka; Senior ICT Policy Specialist, World Bank

CONCLUDING REMARKS BY
Dhanendra Kumar
Executive Director, Bangladesh; Bhutan; India; and Sri Lanka, World Bank

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, 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

CHANGE OF TIME AND VENUE: "Adapting to the Changing Climate in the Bank on Climate Change" discussed in the InfoShop on Wednesday, January 9 at 3:30pm in Preston Auditorium

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*ADDITIONAL PANELIST* Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development
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| | Curious about the buzz surrounding |
| | climate change talk? Just can?t get away |
| | from it, can you? Wondering what all the |
| | talk on climate change impact, |
| | mitigation, and adaptation means? |
| | |
| | If you have pondered over these issues |
| | then you are invited to come hear |
| | Professor Robert Mendelsohn from Yale |
| | University, who will share his thoughts |
| | on climate change impacts and adaptation. |
| | He is a leading authority on the |
| | economics of climate change and policy. |
| | Over the last decade, he has developed |
| | insightful techniques for measuring the |
| | impacts from climate change that capture |
| | adaptation. Results of his research have |
| | been used to calibrate global impact |
| | models that predict the consequences of |
| | various climate scenarios. This research |
| | finds that climate change will hit low |
| | latitude countries especially hard but |
| | the net harmful effects of climate change |
| | will only become evident in the second |
| | half of this century. |
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
3:30 - 5:15 pm
Due to high demand, please arrive 10 minutes early. The event will
start promptly at 3:30pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium JB1-080

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calendar

PRESENTED BY
Robert Mendelsohn
Professor of Economics, School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies, Yale University
Mr. Mendelsohn holds dual appointments at the Yale School of
Forestry and Environmental Sciences, and the Yale School of
Management. His area of interest is resource economics, with special
emphasis in valuing the environment. Over the last decade, he has
been involved in measuring the impacts from climate change. Mr.
Mendelsohn has also worked on valuing natural ecosystems, from
valuing nontimber forest products and ecotourism in tropical
rainforests, to coral reefs in the Caribbean and Australia, to
measuring recreation in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

DISCUSSED BY
Nancy Birdsall
President, Center for Global Development
Ms. Birdsall is the founding president of the Center for Global
Development. Prior to launching the center, Ms. Birdsall served for
three years as Senior Associate and Director of the Economic Reform
Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her work
at Carnegie focused on issues of globalization and inequality, as
well as on the reform of the international financial institutions.
From 1993 to 1998, Ms. Birdsall was Executive Vice-President of the
Inter-American Development Bank, the largest of the regional
development banks. Before joining the IDB, Ms. Birdsall spent 14
years in research, policy, and management positions at the World
Bank, most recently as Director of the Policy Research Department.

Shanta Devarajan
Chief Economist, South Asia Region, World Bank
Mr. Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank?s South Asia
Region, and also maintains a popular web blog open to public
opinion: "http://endpovertyinsouthasia.worldbank.org/". Since
joining the World Bank in 1991, he has been a Principal Economist
and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development
Research Group, as well as the Chief Economist of the Human
Development Network. 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. Shantayanan Devarajan's research covers public
economics, trade policy, natural resources and the environment, and
general-equilibrium modeling of developing countries.

Homi Kharas
Senior Fellow, Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings
Institution
Mr. Kharas is a Senior Fellow at the Wolfensohn Center for
Development at Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. He is a
member of the Working Group for the Commission on Growth and
Development, chaired by Michael Spence. Previously, Mr. Kharas
served as Chief Economist for the World Bank?s East Asia and Pacific
region, and as Director for Poverty Reduction and Economic
Management, Finance and Private Sector Development, responsible for
the Bank?s advice on structural and economic policies, fiscal
issues, debt, trade, governance and financial markets. In 1990-91,
he was a Senior Partner with Jeff Sachs and Associates, advising
governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union on transition.
His research interests are now focused on global trends, East Asian
growth and development, and international aid for the poorest
countries.

MODERATED BY
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist, World Bank
Prior to joining the East Asia and Pacific Sustainable Development
Department of the Bank, Mr. Sanghi worked on development topics
ranging from infrastructure and climate change to microfinance and
agricultural economics. He has also worked in private sector
consulting, for the Thailand Development Research Institute, a
non-profit think-tank, and has held teaching and research positions
at the University of Chicago, Thammasat University in Bangkok, and
Yale University. His research has focused on the economic impact of
global warming in Brazil and India.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Building Inclusive Financial Systems" discussed on Wednesday, January 16 at 4:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop and Brookings Intitution Press Invite you to a book launch

Building Inclusive Financial Systems:
A Framework for Financial Access
Michael Barr, Anjali Kumar, and Robert E. Litan
Editors

Broad-based and inclusive financial systems can significantly aid financial
development, reduce poverty, and expand economic opportunity in developing
countries. Poor households and individuals often have difficulty obtaining
financial services for a multitude of reasons, including transaction costs,
perceived risk, inadequate legal and financial infrastructure, and information
barriers. Yet many financial institutions have begun making profitable inroads
into these underserved markets through the continuing expansion of financial
access and microfinance.

Building Inclusive Financial Systems offers an indispensable guide for
governments and the private sector to increase access effectively and
responsibly. Panelists will share their experience and views on new directions
in work in the area of financial access, building upon and extending themes in
the book.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Presentation: 4:00-5.15 pm; Reception: 5.15 to 6.00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org

MODERATED BY
Elizabeth Littlefield
Director, World Bank and CEO of CGAP
Ms. Littlefield comes to CGAP from the investment bank JP Morgan, where she was
the Managing Director in charge of JP Morgan?s Emerging Markets Capital Markets.
As such, she was responsible for Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, Central
Asia, Middle East and Africa until leaving to join CGAP.

PRESENTED BY
Anjali Kumar
Adviser, Financial and Private Sector Development VP, World Bank
Ms. Kumar is an Adviser in the Financial and Private Sector vice presidency,
currently leading a unit engaged in building world wide indicators on financial
access. Her previous responsibilities included Lead Financial Economist, Latin
American region and Principal Economist, East Asian region. Her prior country
experience span the European region, the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. She
has been a consultant to the Ministry of Industry, Government of India, and held
a Fellowship at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.

Marilou Uy
Sector Director, Africa Finance and Private Sector Development Department, World
Bank
Ms. Uy is the Sector Director for the Africa Finance and Private Sector
Development Department at the World Bank. Previously, she served as Director of
the Financial Sector Operations and Policy Department in the Financial Sector
Vice-Presidency (FSE) as well as Chair of the Financial Sector Board since
September 2002. Ms. Uy has worked on trade policy, investment climate, and
financial sector issues in various operational departments in Latin America,
Middle East, and South Asia.

Liliana Rojas-Soares
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Ms. Rojas-Soares is the Chair of the Latin American Shadow Financial Regulatory
Committee (CLAAF). She has served as Managing Director and Chief Economist for
Latin America at Deutsche Bank, as the Principal Advisor in the Office of Chief
Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, and as Deputy Chief of the
Capital Markets and Financial Studies Division of the Research Department at the
International Monetary Fund.

Peer Stein
Manager of Financial Infrastructure & Institution Building, International
Finance Corporation
Mr. Stein is overseeing and supporting IFC?s technical assistance and advisory
services in financial markets world-wide, including SME banking, housing
finance, microfinance, leasing, securities markets and energy efficiency
finance. Further, he is leading IFC?s and the World Bank?s advisory work in
financial infrastructure, specifically supporting the development of credit
bureaus to support greater access to finance in developing and emerging markets
as well as managing the World Bank?s Payment Systems Development Group.

Hanns-Martin Hagen
Vice President, KfW Bankengruppe
Mr. Hagen is Vice President of the unit for Financial and Private Sector
Development, Europe/Caucasus. Mr. Hagen is responsible for the development of
equity and debt instruments adapted to the needs of microfinance institutions
and local banks in developing and transitions countries. Prior to his current
position Mr. Hagen served as Senior Project Manager in the Asia and Pacific
Department (1999-2002) which followed a posting as Capital Markets Analyst in
KfW's treasury department (1997-1999). Prior to joining KfW he worked with
Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt (Germany) and Duisburg (Germany) where he received
his training.

Michael Barr
Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Mr. Barr is a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in
Washington, D.C. He conducts large-scale empirical research on low- and
moderate-income households, including as the Principal Investigator for the
Detroit Area Household Financial Services Study at the Survey Research Center of
the University of Michigan and as a key researcher for the FDIC?s study of bank
services for LMI households. Mr. Barr previously served as Treasury Secretary
Robert E. Rubin?s Special Assistant, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Community Development Policy, and as Special Advisor to President
William J. Clinton.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Russia's Capitalist Revolution" on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 12:00pm in J1-050

InfoShop & Peterson Institute for International Economics
invite you to a presentation of the book

"Russia's Capitalist Revolution"
The Russian revolution, collapse of the Soviet Union, and Russia's ensuing
transformation belong to the greatest dramas of our time. Revolutions are
usually messy and emotional affairs, challenging much of the conventional
wisdom, and Russia's experience is no exception. This book focuses on the
transformation from Soviet Russia to Russia as a market economy, and explores
why the country has failed to transform into a democracy. It examines the period
from 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev became the Soviet Union's Secretary General of
the Communist Party, to the present Russia of Vladimir Putin. Mr. Åslund
provides a broad overview of Russia's economic change, highlighting the most
important issues and their subsequent resolutions, including Russia's inability
to sort out the ruble zone during its revolution, several failed coups, and the
financial crash of August 1998.

For more information about the book:
http://bookstore.petersoninstitute.org/book-store/4099.html

Anders Åslund has done for the collapse of Russian communism what E. H. Carr did
for the Bolshevik Revolution.
Simon Johnson, Director, Research Department, International Monetary Fund

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building Auditorium J1 - 050
701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
*RSVP REQUIRED* To register, please send an email to
infoshopevents@worldbank.org

OPENING REMARKS BY
Pradeep Mitra
Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank
Mr. Mitra is the World Bank?s Chief Economist for Europe and Central Asia, a
region which includes the countries of Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union,
and Turkey. He was Chief of Country Operations for Russia during the
mid-nineties and then served as Director in charge of the Bank?s economists
working on poverty reduction, economic management and public sector
institutional reform in the Europe and Central Asia region. He has published
widely in public economics, macroeconomics and development economics, including
Transition: The First Ten Years, Analysis and Lessons for Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union.

MODERATED BY
Branko Milanovic
Lead Economist, Development Economics, World Bank
Mr. Milanovic is a lead economist in the World Bank's research department,
where he has been working on the topics of income inequality and globalization.
Previously, he was a World Bank country economist for Poland and a research
fellow at the Institute of Economic Sciences in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Since
1996, Milanovic has also served as a visiting professor teaching the economics
of transition at the Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced
International Studies. Morevoer, Mr. Milanovic has served as a senior associate
on a two-year assignment with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's
Global Policy Program, and he focused his research on globalization and world
income distribution, as well as the interaction between politics, reform, and
inequality in transition countries.

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Anders Åslund
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Mr. Åslund, known to repeatedly challenge conventional wisdom on ?transition
economies,? is a leading specialist on postcommunist economic transformation
with more than 30 years of experience in the field. He boldly predicted the fall
of the Soviet Union in his Gorbachev?s Struggle for Economic Reform (1989). In
Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc (2002) he
firmly stated that the only choice Russia had was market reform. In this new
book, he explains why Russia?s market reform succeeded and democracy building
failed. Before joining the Peterson Institute he was the director of the
Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
and he codirected the Carnegie Moscow Center?s project on Post-Soviet Economies.
Mr. Åslund has also worked as an economic adviser to the Russian government
(1991?94), to the Ukrainian government, and to the president of the Kyrgyz
Republic. He was founding director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition
Economics and professor at the Stockholm School of Economics (1989?94).

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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.
For more information, please visit: http://www.petersoninstitute.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, 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

"Building Inclusive Financial Systems" discussed on Wednesday, January 16 at 4:00pm in J1-050

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Invite you to a book launch
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| | Building Inclusive Financial Systems: |
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| | Editors |
| | |
| | Broad-based and inclusive financial |
| | systems can significantly aid financial |
| | development, reduce poverty, and expand |
| | economic opportunity in developing |
| | countries. Poor households and |
| | individuals often have difficulty |
| | obtaining financial services for a |
| | multitude of reasons, including |
| | transaction costs, perceived risk, |
| | inadequate legal and financial |
| | infrastructure, and information barriers. |
| | Yet many financial institutions have |
| | begun making profitable inroads into |
| | these underserved markets through the |
| | continuing expansion of financial access |
| | and microfinance. |
| | |
| | Building Inclusive Financial Systems |
| | offers an indispensable guide for |
| | governments and the private sector to |
| | increase access effectively and |
| | responsibly. Panelists will share their |
| | experience and views on new directions in |
| | work in the area of financial access, |
| | building upon and extending themes in the |
| | book. |
| | |
| | |
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Presentation: 4:00-5.15 pm; Reception: 5.15 to 6.00 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050

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

MODERATED BY
Elizabeth Littlefield
Director, World Bank and CEO of CGAP
Ms. Littlefield comes to CGAP from the investment bank JP Morgan,
where she was the Managing Director in charge of JP Morgan?s
Emerging Markets Capital Markets. As such, she was responsible for
Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, Central Asia, Middle East and
Africa until leaving to join CGAP.

PRESENTED BY
Anjali Kumar
Adviser, Financial and Private Sector Development VP, World Bank
Ms. Kumar is an Adviser in the Financial and Private Sector vice
presidency, currently leading a unit engaged in building world wide
indicators on financial access. Her previous responsibilities
included Lead Financial Economist, Latin American region and
Principal Economist, East Asian region. Her prior country
experience span the European region, the Middle East, South Asia and
Africa. She has been a consultant to the Ministry of Industry,
Government of India, and held a Fellowship at the Institute of
Economic Growth, Delhi.

Marilou Uy
Sector Director, Africa Finance and Private Sector Development
Department, World Bank
Ms. Uy is the Sector Director for the Africa Finance and Private
Sector Development Department at the World Bank. Previously, she
served as Director of the Financial Sector Operations and Policy
Department in the Financial Sector Vice-Presidency (FSE) as well as
Chair of the Financial Sector Board since September 2002. Ms. Uy has
worked on trade policy, investment climate, and financial sector
issues in various operational departments in Latin America, Middle
East, and South Asia.

Liliana Rojas-Soares
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Ms. Rojas-Soares is the Chair of the Latin American Shadow Financial
Regulatory Committee (CLAAF). She has served as Managing Director
and Chief Economist for Latin America at Deutsche Bank, as the
Principal Advisor in the Office of Chief Economist at the
Inter-American Development Bank, and as Deputy Chief of the Capital
Markets and Financial Studies Division of the Research Department at
the International Monetary Fund.

Peer Stein
Manager of Financial Infrastructure & Institution Building,
International Finance Corporation
Mr. Stein is overseeing and supporting IFC?s technical assistance
and advisory services in financial markets world-wide, including SME
banking, housing finance, microfinance, leasing, securities markets
and energy efficiency finance. Further, he is leading IFC?s and the
World Bank?s advisory work in financial infrastructure, specifically
supporting the development of credit bureaus to support greater
access to finance in developing and emerging markets as well as
managing the World Bank?s Payment Systems Development Group.

Hanns-Martin Hagen
Vice President, KfW Bankengruppe
Mr. Hagen is Vice President of the unit for Financial and Private
Sector Development, Europe/Caucasus. Mr. Hagen is responsible for
the development of equity and debt instruments adapted to the needs
of microfinance institutions and local banks in developing and
transitions countries. Prior to his current position Mr. Hagen
served as Senior Project Manager in the Asia and Pacific Department
(1999-2002) which followed a posting as Capital Markets Analyst in
KfW's treasury department (1997-1999). Prior to joining KfW he
worked with Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt (Germany) and Duisburg
(Germany) where he received his training.

Michael Barr
Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Mr. Barr is a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
in Washington, D.C. He conducts large-scale empirical research on
low- and moderate-income households, including as the Principal
Investigator for the Detroit Area Household Financial Services Study
at the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan and as a
key researcher for the FDIC?s study of bank services for LMI
households. Mr. Barr previously served as Treasury Secretary Robert
E. Rubin?s Special Assistant, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Community Development Policy, and as Special Advisor to
President William J. Clinton.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: "Russia's Capitalist Revolution" on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 12:00pm in J1-050

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&
Peterson Institute for International Economics
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| | |
| (Embedded | The Russian revolution, collapse of the Soviet |
| image moved | Union, and Russia's ensuing transformation belong |
| to file: | to the greatest dramas of our time. Revolutions |
| pic08130.jpg | are usually messy and emotional affairs, |
| ) | challenging much of the conventional wisdom, and |
| | Russia's experience is no exception. This book |
| | focuses on the transformation from Soviet Russia |
| | to Russia as a market economy, and explores why |
| | the country has failed to transform into a |
| | democracy. It examines the period from 1985, when |
| | Mikhail Gorbachev became the Soviet Union's |
| | Secretary General of the Communist Party, to the |
| | present Russia of Vladimir Putin. Mr. Åslund |
| | provides a broad overview of Russia's economic |
| | change, highlighting the most important issues |
| | and their subsequent resolutions, including |
| | Russia's inability to sort out the ruble zone |
| | during its revolution, several failed coups, and |
| | the financial crash of August 1998. |
| | |
| | For more information about the book: |
| | http://bookstore.petersoninstitute.org/book-store |
| | /4099.html |
| | |
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Anders Åslund has done for the collapse of Russian communism what E.
H. Carr did for the Bolshevik Revolution.
Simon Johnson, Director, Research Department, International Monetary
Fund

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building Auditorium J1 - 050
701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

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

OPENING REMARKS BY
Pradeep Mitra
Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank
Mr. Mitra is the World Bank?s Chief Economist for Europe and Central
Asia, a region which includes the countries of Eastern Europe, the
former Soviet Union, and Turkey. He was Chief of Country Operations
for Russia during the mid-nineties and then served as Director in
charge of the Bank?s economists working on poverty reduction,
economic management and public sector institutional reform in the
Europe and Central Asia region. He has published widely in public
economics, macroeconomics and development economics, including
Transition: The First Ten Years, Analysis and Lessons for Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union.

MODERATED BY
Branko Milanovic
Lead Economist, Development Economics, World Bank
Mr. Milanovic is a lead economist in the World Bank's research
department, where he has been working on the topics of income
inequality and globalization. Previously, he was a World Bank
country economist for Poland and a research fellow at the Institute
of Economic Sciences in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Since 1996, Milanovic
has also served as a visiting professor teaching the economics of
transition at the Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced
International Studies. Morevoer, Mr. Milanovic has served as a
senior associate on a two-year assignment with the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace's Global Policy Program, and he
focused his research on globalization and world income distribution,
as well as the interaction between politics, reform, and inequality
in transition countries.

PRESENTED BY
Anders Åslund
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Mr. Åslund, known to repeatedly challenge conventional wisdom on
?transition economies,? is a leading specialist on postcommunist
economic transformation with more than 30 years of experience in the
field. He boldly predicted the fall of the Soviet Union in his
Gorbachev?s Struggle for Economic Reform (1989). In Building
Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc (2002) he
firmly stated that the only choice Russia had was market reform. In
this new book, he explains why Russia?s market reform succeeded and
democracy building failed. Before joining the Peterson Institute he
was the director of the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, and he codirected the Carnegie
Moscow Center?s project on Post-Soviet Economies. Mr. Åslund has
also worked as an economic adviser to the Russian government
(1991?94), to the Ukrainian government, and to the president of the
Kyrgyz Republic. He was founding director of the Stockholm
Institute of Transition Economics and professor at the Stockholm
School of Economics (1989?94).

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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.
For more information, please visit:

http://www.petersoninstitute.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, 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: "Adapting to the Changing Climate in the Bank on Climate Change" discussed in the InfoShop on Wednesday, January 9 at 3:00pm in JB1-080

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*ADDITIONAL PANELIST* Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development
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| | Curious about the buzz surrounding |
| | climate change talk? Just can?t get away |
| | from it, can you? Wondering what all the |
| | talk on climate change impact, |
| | mitigation, and adaptation means? |
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| | If you have pondered over these issues |
| | then you are invited to come hear |
| | Professor Robert Mendelsohn from Yale |
| | University, who will share his thoughts |
| | on climate change impacts and adaptation. |
| | He is a leading authority on the |
| | economics of climate change and policy. |
| | Over the last decade, he has developed |
| | insightful techniques for measuring the |
| | impacts from climate change that capture |
| | adaptation. Results of his research have |
| | been used to calibrate global impact |
| | models that predict the consequences of |
| | various climate scenarios. This research |
| | finds that climate change will hit low |
| | latitude countries especially hard but |
| | the net harmful effects of climate change |
| | will only become evident in the second |
| | half of this century. |
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
3:00 - 4:45 pm
Due to high demand, please arrive 10 minutes early. The event will
start promptly at 3:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium JB1-080

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PRESENTED BY
Robert Mendelsohn
Professor of Economics, School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies, Yale University
Mr. Mendelsohn holds dual appointments at the Yale School of
Forestry and Environmental Sciences, and the Yale School of
Management. His area of interest is resource economics, with special
emphasis in valuing the environment. Over the last decade, he has
been involved in measuring the impacts from climate change. Mr.
Mendelsohn has also worked on valuing natural ecosystems, from
valuing nontimber forest products and ecotourism in tropical
rainforests, to coral reefs in the Caribbean and Australia, to
measuring recreation in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

DISCUSSED BY
Nancy Birdsall
President, Center for Global Development
Ms. Birdsall is the founding president of the Center for Global
Development. Prior to launching the center, Ms. Birdsall served for
three years as Senior Associate and Director of the Economic Reform
Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her work
at Carnegie focused on issues of globalization and inequality, as
well as on the reform of the international financial institutions.
From 1993 to 1998, Ms. Birdsall was Executive Vice-President of the
Inter-American Development Bank, the largest of the regional
development banks. Before joining the IDB, Ms. Birdsall spent 14
years in research, policy, and management positions at the World
Bank, most recently as Director of the Policy Research Department.

Shanta Devarajan
Chief Economist, South Asia Region, World Bank
Mr. Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank?s South Asia
Region, and also maintains a popular web blog open to public
opinion: "http://endpovertyinsouthasia.worldbank.org/". Since
joining the World Bank in 1991, he has been a Principal Economist
and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development
Research Group, as well as the Chief Economist of the Human
Development Network. 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. Shantayanan Devarajan's research covers public
economics, trade policy, natural resources and the environment, and
general-equilibrium modeling of developing countries.

Homi Kharas
Senior Fellow, Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings
Institution
Mr. Kharas is a Senior Fellow at the Wolfensohn Center for
Development at Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. He is a
member of the Working Group for the Commission on Growth and
Development, chaired by Michael Spence. Previously, Mr. Kharas
served as Chief Economist for the World Bank?s East Asia and Pacific
region, and as Director for Poverty Reduction and Economic
Management, Finance and Private Sector Development, responsible for
the Bank?s advice on structural and economic policies, fiscal
issues, debt, trade, governance and financial markets. In 1990-91,
he was a Senior Partner with Jeff Sachs and Associates, advising
governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union on transition.
His research interests are now focused on global trends, East Asian
growth and development, and international aid for the poorest
countries.

MODERATED BY
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist, World Bank
Prior to joining the East Asia and Pacific Sustainable Development
Department of the Bank, Mr. Sanghi worked on development topics
ranging from infrastructure and climate change to microfinance and
agricultural economics. He has also worked in private sector
consulting, for the Thailand Development Research Institute, a
non-profit think-tank, and has held teaching and research positions
at the University of Chicago, Thammasat University in Bangkok, and
Yale University. His research has focused on the economic impact of
global warming in Brazil and India.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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