SEMINAR: "Growth Strategies and Urbanization," April 17, 2008 at the World Bank

The Commission on Growth and Development, World Bank Urban Development Unit, and
InfoShop

invite you to a half-day seminar on

Thursday, April 17, 2008
8:45 am - 12:30 pm

Preston Auditorium
World Bank Main Complex
1818 H Street NW

For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

Growth Strategies and Urbanization
Insights from the Commission on Growth and Development

Opening remarks by Danny Leipziger, Vice President and Head of Network, Poverty
Reduction and Economic Managment, The World Bank Group
Closing remarks by Graeme P. Wheeler, Managing Director, The World Bank
Group

Join Michael Spence, Nobel Laureate in Economics, and Chairman of the Commission
on Growth and Development, along with an eminent panel of commentators,
including:

Richard Arnott, Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of
California-Riverside
Augusto de la Torre, Chief Economist, Latin America and Caribbean Region,
World Bank
Gilles Duranton, Noranda Chair, Professor, Department of Economics,
University of Toronto
Richard Green, Professor of Real Estate, Finance and Economics, George
Washington University
Marja Hoek-Smit, Director, International Housing Finance Program, Wharton
School of Business
Sukkoo Kim, Associate Professor, University of Washington-St. Louis
Johannes Linn, Executive Director, Wolfensohn Center for Development, The
Brookings Institution
Mahmoud Mohieldin, Minister of Investment of Egypt
George Peterson, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute (ret.)
John Quigley, I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor, University of
California at Berkeley

to discuss the role of urbanization in growth strategies, based on ?state of
the art? papers covering the following topics:

Urban Productivity, Agglomeration Economies and Growth
Geography and Regional Inequality
Urban Labor Markets and Growth
Urban Housing Policies
Lessons from the U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis

Agenda: (See attached file: Agenda.doc)

About the Commission on Growth and Development
The Commission on Growth and Development was established in April 2006 as a
response to two insights. First, poverty cannot be reduced in isolation from
economic growth?an observation that has recently been overlooked in thinking and
strategies for development. Second, there is growing awareness that knowledge
about economic growth is much less definitive than commonly thought.
Consequently, the Commission?s mandate is to ?take stock of the state of
theoretical and empirical knowledge on economic growth with a view to drawing
implications for policy for the current and next generation of policy makers.?

To help explore the state of knowledge, the Commission invited leading academics
and policy makers from developing and industrialized countries to explore and
discuss economic issues it thought relevant for growth and development,
including controversial ideas. Thematic papers assessed knowledge in several
different areas, among them urbanization.

The thematic papers on Urbanization cover the following areas: Urban
Productivity, Agglomeration Economies and Growth (Gilles Duranton, John
Quigley), Geography and Regional Inequality (Sukkoo Kim, Tony Venables), Urban
Housing Subsidy Policies (Richard Arnott), and The U.S. Subprime Mortgage
Crisis: Issues Raised and Lessons Learned (Dwight Jaffee).

The Commission?s work is supported by the Governments of Australia, the
Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, the William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation, and the World Bank Group.
For more information and the draft thematic papers, please visit:
www.growthcommission.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

SEMINAR: "Growth Strategies and Urbanization," April 17, 2008 at Preston Auditorium, 8:45am-12:30pm

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invite you to a half-day seminar on

Thursday, April 17, 2008
8:45 am - 12:30 pm
Preston Auditorium

For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org
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| Growth Strategies and Urbanization |
| Insights from the Commission on Growth and Development |
| |
| Opening remarks by Danny Leipziger, Vice President and Head of |
| Network, PREM, The World Bank Group |
| Closing remarks by Graeme P. Wheeler, Managing |
| Director, The World Bank Group |
| |
| Join Michael Spence, Nobel Laureate in Economics, and Chairman |
| of the Commission on Growth and Development, along with an |
| eminent panel of commentators, including: |
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| Richard Arnott, Distinguished Professor of Economics, |
| University of California-Riverside |
| Augusto de la Torre, Chief Economist, Latin America and |
| Caribbean Region, World Bank |
| Gilles Duranton, Noranda Chair, Professor, Department of |
| Economics, University of Toronto |
| Richard Green, Professor of Real Estate, Finance and |
| Economics, George Washington University |
| Marja Hoek-Smit, Director, International Housing Finance |
| Program, Wharton School of Business |
| Sukkoo Kim, Associate Professor, University of |
| Washington-St. Louis |
| Johannes Linn, Executive Director, Wolfensohn Center for |
| Development, The Brookings Institution |
| Mahmoud Mohieldin, Minister of Investment of Egypt |
| George Peterson, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute (ret.) |
| John Quigley, I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor, |
| University of California at Berkeley |
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| to discuss the role of urbanization in growth strategies, based |
| on ?state of the art? papers covering the following topics: |
| |
| Urban Productivity, Agglomeration Economies and Growth |
| Geography and Regional Inequality |
| Urban Labor Markets and Growth |
| Urban Housing Policies |
| Lessons from the U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis |
| |
| Agenda: (See attached file: Agenda.doc) |
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About the Commission on Growth and Development
The Commission on Growth and Development was established in April
2006 as a response to two insights. First, poverty cannot be reduced
in isolation from economic growth?an observation that has recently
been overlooked in thinking and strategies for development. Second,
there is growing awareness that knowledge about economic growth is
much less definitive than commonly thought. Consequently, the
Commission?s mandate is to ?take stock of the state of theoretical
and empirical knowledge on economic growth with a view to drawing
implications for policy for the current and next generation of
policy makers.?

To help explore the state of knowledge, the Commission invited
leading academics and policy makers from developing and
industrialized countries to explore and discuss economic issues it
thought relevant for growth and development, including controversial
ideas. Thematic papers assessed knowledge in several different
areas, among them urbanization.

The thematic papers on Urbanization cover the following areas: Urban
Productivity, Agglomeration Economies and Growth (Gilles Duranton,
John Quigley), Geography and Regional Inequality (Sukkoo Kim, Tony
Venables), Urban Housing Subsidy Policies (Richard Arnott), and The
U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Issues Raised and Lessons Learned
(Dwight Jaffee).

The Commission?s work is supported by the Governments of Australia,
the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, the William and
Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the World Bank Group.
For more information and the draft thematic papers, please visit:

www.growthcommission.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

REMINDER - SDV/DEC Seminar present: "How the World Bank Tried to Control the Population of the World, and Failed" discussed on Tuesday, April 8 at 12:30pm in JB1-080

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invite you to a book launch of a recent Harvard University Press
publication
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| | Fatal Misconception |
| | The Struggle to Control World Population |
| | by Matthew Connelly |
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| | In the 1970s a host of NGOs and |
| | international organizations, including |
| | the World Bank, declared a ?population |
| | crisis? and demanded an emergency |
| | response, including earmarked |
| | appropriations and "incentive payments" |
| | to persuade poor people to be |
| | sterilized. So much money poured in so |
| | fast that spending became an end onto |
| | itself. The pressure to scale up and |
| | show results transformed organizations |
| | ostensibly dedicated to helping people |
| | plan their families into tools for |
| | social engineering. Leaders like Robert |
| | McNamara pushed ?crash programs," even |
| | though the risks entailed were palpable, |
| | including the long-range sustainability |
| | of programs that really were devoted to |
| | advancing reproductive rights and |
| | health. Rather than accept constraints |
| | or accountability, they preferred to let |
| | population control go out of control. It |
| | finally culminated with the Emergency |
| | Period in India, when over eight million |
| | people were sterilized in a single year. |
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
12:30 - 2:00 pm

Auditorium JB1-080
World Bank J Building
701 18th Street NW

For non Bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Matthew Connelly
Associate Professor of History,Columbia University
Professor Connelly works in international and global history. His
publications include A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria?s Fight for
Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era (2002) and
research articles in Comparative Studies in Society and History, The
International Journal of Middle East Studies, The American
Historical Review, The Review française d?histoire d?Outre-mer, and
Past & Present. He has also published commentary on international
affairs in The Atlantic Monthly and The National Interest.

MODERATED BY
Varun Gauri
Senior Economist
Mr.Gauri is a Senior Economist in the Development Research Group of
the World Bank. His research focuses on politics and governance in
the social sectors, and aims to combine quantitative and qualitative
methods in economics and social science research. He is leading
research projects on the impact of legal strategies to claim
economic and social rights, and on the cross-country diffusion of
development innovations. He has published papers on a wide variety
of topics, including the political economy of government responses
to HIV/AIDS,  the strategic choices of development NGOs, the use of
vouchers for basic education, and immunization in developing
countries, and was a core team member of the 2007 World Development
Report.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: "Remittances and Development: Lessons from Latin America" on Tuesday, April 8th

The InfoShop/World Bank Public Information Center

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World Bank External Affairs Unit for Latin America and the Caribbean

invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent publication

"Remittances and Development: Lessons from Latin America"

Book presentation and debate on the impact of US economic slowdown

Workers' remittances have become a major source of financing for developing
countries and are especially important in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC),
which is at the top of the ranking of remittances receiving regions in the
world. While there has been a recent surge in analytical work on the topic, this
book is motivated by the large heterogeneity in migration and remittances
patterns across countries and regions, and by the fact that existing evidence
for LAC is restricted to only a few countries, such as Mexico and El Salvador.
Because the nature of the phenomenon varies across countries, its development
impact and policy implications are also likely to differ in ways that are still
largely unknown. This book helps fill the gap by exploring, in the specific
context of Latin America and Caribbean countries, some of the main questions
faced by policymakers when trying to respond to increasing remittances flows.

For more information, or to order the book, please click here.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
2:00 - 3:00 pm

Conference Center I1-200
World Bank I Building
1850 I (Eye) Street NW

Please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

INTRODUCED BY
Pamela Cox
Vice President, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Ms. Cox is the World Bank?s Vice President for the Latin America and the
Caribbean Region. She is a development economist and has held several management
positions in various countries and regions since joining the Bank in 1980. Most
recently, she was Director of Strategy and Operations for the Africa Region,
where she oversaw the increase of Bank lending to the poorest African countries.
Ms. Cox also served as Country Director for South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho,
Namibia and Swaziland. She was Chief of the Country Operations Division in East
Asia, and served as Chief of the Agriculture and Environment Operations in the
same region.

PRESENTED BY EDITORS
Pablo Fajnzylber
Senior Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Mr. Fajnzylber is a Senior Economist in the Chief Economist?s Office of the
Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank. Previously, he worked at
the Bank?s Finance and Private Sector Development Department and at its
Development Economics Research Group. Mr. Fajnzylber has published in various
professional journals on a variety of development topics, including the economic
impact of workers? remittances, the dynamics of micro-enterprises in developing
countries, the impact of international trade on labor demand, and the economic
causes of violent crime. He has also contributed to publications on informality
and the determinants of economic growth in Latin America.

J. Humberto Lopez
Lead Economist and Sector Leader, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World
Bank
Mr. Lopez has been Lead Economist and Sector Leader for Poverty Reduction and
Economic Management for Central America at the World Bank since February 2008.
Previously, he was a senior economist in the Office of the Regional Chief
Economist, where he co-authored reports on pro-poor growth and on remittances
and development. He worked on operational aspects of the Poverty Reduction
Strategy Paper and Heavily Indebted Poor Country initiatives at the Bank's
Central America department and on pro-poor growth and poverty and social impact
analysis in the Poverty department. Mr. Lopez has published on issues related
to fiscal policy, optimal currency areas and real exchange rate misalignment,
international business cycle synchronization, armed conflict and development,
and pro-poor growth.

COMMENTS BY
Susan Minushkin
Deputy Director, Pew Hispanic Center
Ms. Minushkin joined the Pew Hispanic Center from the Centro de Investigaciones
y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City, where she was a professor of
international studies and director of the first ongoing public and elite survey
in Mexico on foreign policy and Mexican attitudes toward international issues.
Her research expertise includes Mexican public opinion and foreign policy, Latin
American politics, and economic globalization in developing countries.

MODERATED BY
Sergio Jellinek
Communications Advisor, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Mr. Jellinek is the Communications Advisor for the Latin America and the
Caribbean Region at the World Bank, where he oversees communications for the
Bank?s entire action field within the region. He is also a founder of COM+
Alliance, which is a partnership of international organizations and
communications professionals who are committed to using communications to
advance a vision of sustainable development. He has extensive experience in
developing countries both as a working journalist and as an advisor to
international organizations.

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About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, 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: "Remittances and Development: Lessons from Latin America" on Tuesday, April 8 at 2:00 pm in Conference Center I1-200

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The External Affairs Unit for Latin America and the Caribbean

invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent publication
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| | Remittances and Development |
| | Lessons from Latin America |
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| | Workers' remittances have become a major |
| Tuesday, April | source of financing for developing |
| 8, 2008 | countries and are especially important in |
| 2:00 - 3:00 pm | Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), |
| | which is at the top of the ranking of |
| Conference | remittances receiving regions in the |
| Center I1-200 | world. While there has been a recent |
| World Bank I | surge in analytical work on the topic, |
| Building | this book is motivated by the large |
| 1850 I (Eye) | heterogeneity in migration and |
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| | regions, and by the fact that existing |
| For non Bank | evidence for LAC is restricted to only a |
| staff, please | few countries, such as Mexico and El |
| RSVP to | Salvador. Because the nature of the |
| infoshopevents@w | phenomenon varies across countries, its |
| orldbank.org | development impact and policy |
| | implications are also likely to differ in |
| | ways that are still largely unknown. This |
| | book helps fill the gap by exploring, in |
| | the specific context of Latin America and |
| | Caribbean countries, some of the main |
| | questions faced by policymakers when |
| | trying to respond to increasing |
| | remittances flows. |
| | |
| | For more information, or to order the |
| | book, please click here. |
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INTRODUCED BY
Pamela Cox
Vice President, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Ms. Cox is the World Bank?s Vice President for the Latin America and
the Caribbean Region. She is a development economist and has held
several management positions in various countries and regions since
joining the Bank in 1980. Most recently, she was Director of
Strategy and Operations for the Africa Region, where she oversaw the
increase of Bank lending to the poorest African countries. Ms. Cox
also served as Country Director for South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho,
Namibia and Swaziland. She was Chief of the Country Operations
Division in East Asia, and served as Chief of the Agriculture and
Environment Operations in the same region.

PRESENTED BY EDITORS
Pablo Fajnzylber
Senior Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
Mr. Fajnzylber is a Senior Economist in the Chief Economist?s Office
of the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank.
Previously, he worked at the Bank?s Finance and Private Sector
Development Department and at its Development Economics Research
Group. Mr. Fajnzylber has published in various professional journals
on a variety of development topics, including the economic impact of
workers? remittances, the dynamics of micro-enterprises in
developing countries, the impact of international trade on labor
demand, and the economic causes of violent crime. He has also
contributed to publications on informality and the determinants of
economic growth in Latin America.

J. Humberto Lopez
Lead Economist and Sector Leader, Latin America and the Caribbean
Region, World Bank
Mr. Lopez has been Lead Economist and Sector Leader for Poverty
Reduction and Economic Management for Central America at the World
Bank since February 2008. Previously, he was a senior economist in
the Office of the Regional Chief Economist, where he co-authored
reports on pro-poor growth and on remittances and development. He
worked on operational aspects of the Poverty Reduction Strategy
Paper and Heavily Indebted Poor Country initiatives at the Bank's
Central America department and on pro-poor growth and poverty and
social impact analysis in the Poverty department. Mr. Lopez has
published on issues related to fiscal policy, optimal currency areas
and real exchange rate misalignment, international business cycle
synchronization, armed conflict and development, and pro-poor
growth.

COMMENTS BY
Susan Minushkin
Deputy Director, Pew Hispanic Center
Ms. Minushkin joined the Pew Hispanic Center from the Centro de
Investigaciones y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City, where
she was a professor of international studies and director of the
first ongoing public and elite survey in Mexico on foreign policy
and Mexican attitudes toward international issues. Her research
expertise includes Mexican public opinion and foreign policy, Latin
American politics, and economic globalization in developing
countries.

MODERATED BY
Sergio Jellinek
Communications Advisor, Latin America and the Caribbean Region,
World Bank
Mr. Jellinek is the Communications Advisor for the Latin America and
the Caribbean Region at the World Bank, where he oversees
communications for the Bank?s entire action field within the region.
He is also a founder of COM+ Alliance, which is a partnership of
international organizations and communications professionals who are
committed to using communications to advance a vision of sustainable
development. He has extensive experience in developing countries
both as a working journalist and as an advisor to international
organizations.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: "Magic Radio" on Thursday, April 3 at 12:00 pm in J1-050

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invite you to a film screening
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| MAGIC RADIO |
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| and Stéphanie Barbey |
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| In Niger, where more than 80% of |
| the population is illiterate, radio |
| is the main means of mass |
| communication. Simple yet |
| reliable, the radio is |
| everywhere?in the streets, homes, |
| and the bush. It entertains, |
| educates, informs, and helps |
| provide a check on power. Today, |
| through the radio waves, the |
| citizens of Niger seize the |
| microphone and taste democracy. It |
| is revolution FM. |
| |
| Screened in French with English |
| subtitles |
| Click here for more about radio's |
| impact on capacity development in |
| Niger |
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
12:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050

Note: This button will also add the event to your Lotus Notes calendar
For non Bank staff, please RSVP by sending an email to
infoshopevents@worldbank.org

DISCUSSED BY
Mark Nelson
Program Manager, World Bank Institute
Mr. Nelson is program leader for governance diagnostics work at the
World Bank Institute. Before his current position, he was team
leader of WBI?s European office, where he focused on governance
issues, including the role of the media and other external
accountability institutions in fostering good governance and
development. From 1985 through 1996, Mr. Nelson was European
diplomatic correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, where he
covered the negotiations leading to the Maastricht Treaty, the fall
of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the war in
Bosnia. From 1992 to 1993, he was a senior associate at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, where he co-directed a major
study on U.S.-European relations and wrote extensively on the
Bosnian war and other subjects for newspapers and scholarly
journals.

Kreszentia Duer
New Business Development Leader, World Bank Institute
Ms. Duer manages the World Bank Institute?s technical assistance
program to strengthen policies, institutions, and capacities for
Civic Engagement, Empowerment, and Respect for Diversity (CEERD) in
developing countries. Her thirty years of experience in the World
Bank includes leadership and management of country and sector
programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, in
community driven development, rural and urban development, and
environment; and innovation in cultural industries and intellectual
property rights, education, governance and accountability,
broadcasting policy and telecommunications. She is a member of the
Editorial Board of the journal, Policy Sciences; co-editor of
Promoting Social Cohesion through Education (World Bank, 2006), and
co-author of Broadcasting, Voice and Accountability: A Public
Interest Approach to Policy, Law and Regulation (World Bank, 2008).

Ajay Tejasvi
Program Coordinator, World Bank Institute
Mr. Tejasvi works at the World Bank Institute's Capacity Development
Resource Center and is involved in a variety of knowledge management
and knowledge generation efforts. He is co-author of the Capacity
Development Brief on the FM revolution in Niger and is involved in
governance and capacity development initiatives.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"The Practice of Fiscal Federalism" on Monday, April 14 at 12:00 pm

InfoShop/World Bank Publication Information Center & The World Bank Institute
Poverty Reduction & Economic Management Division

INVITE YOU TO A LAUNCH OF A RECENT McGILL-QUEENS PRESS PUBLICATION

CHAIRED BY
Justin Yifu Lin
Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Research Economics, World
Bank

PRESENTED BY EDITOR
Anwar Shah
Lead economist and Program Leader, Public Sector Governance, World Bank
Institute
Executive Board Member, International Institute of Public Finance
Fellow, The Institute for Public Economics

COMMENTS BY
Teresa Ter-Minassian
Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund

Monday, April 14, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
Auditorium J1-050
World Bank J Building
701 18th Street NW

*RSVP REQUIRED* Please send an email to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

The Practice of Fiscal Federalism
Comparative Perspectives

A Global Dialogue on Federalism Volume #4
edited by Anwar Shah

A comparative analysis of shifting fiscal powers in twelve federal countries

Leading scholars and practitioners examine constitutional design and taxing,
spending, and regulatory responsibilities at the federal, state/provincial, and
local/municipal levels in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Malaysia,
Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. This
volume also explores the effects of intergovernmental fiscal relations on
securing economic unions and improving social welfare.

Contributors provide a fascinating account of how federal countries are
confronting the traditional challenges of conflicts over division of fiscal
powers while also coping with emerging challenges of globalization and citizen
empowerment arising from the information revolution. They analyze how
relationships and roles of different orders of government are being reshaped and
show how local solutions inspired by global principles help strengthen
government accountability and improve the quality of life for citizens.

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