"The World Bank: From reconstruction to development to equity" launched on Tuesday, April 29 at 12:00pm in J1-050

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Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics

invite you to the launch of a recent Routledge publication
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| Tuesday, April | Today, the World Bank aspires to be the |
| 29 | world?s premier development institution. |
| 12:00 - 2:00 pm | Its credo is captured by the bold phrase |
| World Bank J | at the front of its headquarters: ?Our |
| Building | dream is a world free of poverty.? In |
| Auditorium | practice, the World Bank is involved in |
| J1-050 | virtually every facet of development, and |
| 701 18th Street, | is major actor in countries that seek its |
| NW | support and partnership and in the |
| Washington, DC | development community at-large. As part |
| | of a series on ?global institutions,? the |
| | book captures the institution?s history |
| | and reflects the insights of an |
| | individual, Katherine Marshall, whose |
| | experience at the Bank spans more than |
| | half of its lifetime. |
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| | For more information about the book or to |
| | order it online, please click here. |
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| | This book combines a thorough overview of |
| | where the Bank comes from, how it works, |
| | its challenges, and its mission and |
| | vision. Written by someone who knows the |
| | Bank deeply and intimately, it is honest, |
| | informative and insightful. It offers |
| | both an interpretation of this complex |
| | institution and a map of where its future |
| | lies. |
| | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director of |
| | WBG, and Former Minister of Finance and |
| | Foreign Affairs of Nigeria |
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| | It is immensely readable, and infused |
| | with a lively appreciation of the World |
| | Bank?s peculiar quirks and complexities. |
| | Often maligned and even more frequently |
| | misunderstood, the Bank plays a critical |
| | role both in global governance and global |
| | development policy. Katherine Marshall |
| | is an able and authoritative guide to its |
| | many rules and roles. |
| | Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the Woodrow |
| | Wilson School of Public and International |
| | Affairs at Princeton University |
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PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Katherine Marshall
Ms. Marshall is a Senior Fellow at Georgetown University?s Berkley
Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs and Visiting Professor
in the Government Department. She worked for 35 years at the World
Bank in a wide range of positions and regions, most recently as
Director and Counselor to the President in the Development Dialogue
on Values and Ethics.

DISCUSSED BY
John Clark
Lead Social Development Specialist, EASSO, World Bank
Mr. Clark is currently Lead Social Development Specialist for East
Asia in the World Bank. He has focused particularly on governance,
poverty and civil society issues in Cambodia and Indonesia, and also
spent 8 months in Aceh working on tsunami reconstruction, especially
regarding donor coordination. Before that he took a four year
absence from the Bank in which he worked in the United Nations
Secretary-General?s office (as project director for the high-level
panel on UN-civil society relations), was Visiting Fellow at the
London School of Economics, and served on a task force advising the
British Prime Minister about Africa.

Chad Dobson
Executive Director, Bank Information Center
Mr. Dobson joined the Bank Information Center (BIC) as Executive
Director in December, 2007. Mr. Dobson founded BIC in 1987 and was
Executive Director until 1996. He then founded and directed the
Consumers Choice Council to protect labeling systems (organic, fair
trade, Marine Stewardship Council, Forest Stewardship Council)
during the initial development of the World Trade Organization. At
Oxfam America, where he was Director of Policy since 2003, Mr.
Dobson was responsible for developing the organization?s Washington
presence, and his portfolio included the Fair Trade campaign,
extractive industries work and policy and advocacy activity
associated with humanitarian relief. Mr. Dobson is currently on the
board of the International Relations Center, the Forest People?s
Programme/World Rainforest Movement, Green Seal, and the Herbert
Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship.

Werner Kiene
Chairperson, Inspection Panel, World Bank
Mr. Kiene was appointed to the Inspection Panel in November 2004 and
became Chairman of the Panel in 2007. He has held leadership
positions with the Ford Foundation and German Development
Assistance. In 1994, Mr. Kiene became the founding Director of the
Office of Evaluation of the United Nations World Food Programme (UN
WFP). He was the World Food Programme Country Director for
Bangladesh from 1998 through 2000 and also served as UN Resident
Coordinator during that period. From 2000 to 2004 he was a
Representative of the UN WFP in Washington, D.C.
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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

Symposium and Exhibition Opening: "Borderless Captivity: Exploitation and Human Trafficking" at the World Bank (Wednesday, May 7, 2008)

The World Bank Art Program
World Bank Human Development Network
& InfoShop

in partnership with the
United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime,
Free the Slaves,
International Justice Mission and the
Ricky Martin Foundation

cordially invite you to the exhibition opening events
on Wednesday, May 7, 2008:

"Borderless Captivity: Exploitation and Human Trafficking"
Symposium and Exhibition Opening

12:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Preston Auditorium
The World Bank Main Complex
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433

Exhibitions on view in the
Preston, Main Complex Atrium and
Main Complex Front Lobby

RSVP required for external guests by April 30,
artprogram@worldbank.org or 202.458.0333

External guests must present a photo identification and this invitation at the
door

Refreshments will be served

For complete details, please see the attached:(See attached file: boderless
captivity.pdf)

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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

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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: Strobe Talbott in the InfoShop on Tuesday, April 22 at 12:00 pm

InfoShop, World Bank Institute, and Brookings Institution

cordially invite you to a book launch of a recent Brookings Institution Press
publication

The Great Experiment
The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and The Quest for a Global Nation

This dramatic narrative of breathtaking scope and riveting focus puts the
"story" back into history. It is the saga of how the most ambitious of big ideas
-- that a world made up of many nations can govern itself peacefully -- has
played out over the millennia. Humankind's "Great Experiment" goes back to the
most ancient of days -- literally to the Garden of Eden -- and into the present,
with an eye to the future.

Offering an insider's view of how the world is governed today, Talbott
interweaves through this epic tale personal insights and experiences and takes
us with him behind the scenes and into the presence of world leaders as they
square off or cut deals with each other. As an acclaimed journalist, he covered
the standoff between the superpowers for more than two decades; as a high-level
diplomat, he was in the thick of tumultuous events in the 1990s, when the
bipolar equilibrium gave way to chaos in the Balkans, the emergence of a new
breed of international terrorist, and America's assertiveness during its
"unipolar moment" -- which he sees as the latest, but not the last, stage in the
Great Experiment.

Tuesday, April 22, 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

CHAIRED BY
Michele De Nevers
Senior Manager, Sustainable Development Vice-Presidency, World Bank
Ms. de Nevers is the Senior Manager for environment and climate change in the
Sustainable Development Vice-Presidency. She previously was Director of Sector
and Thematic Programs in WBI and has extensive experience in environment and
capacity development issues.

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Strobe Talbott
President, The Brookings Institution
Mr. Talbott, whose career spans journalism, government service, and academe, is
an expert on U.S. foreign policy, with specialties on Europe, Russia, South
Asia, and nuclear arms control. As deputy secretary of state in the Clinton
administration, Talbott was deeply involved in both the conduct of U.S. policy
abroad and the management of executive branch relations with Congress.

COMMENTS BY
John van Oudenaren
Director, World Digital Library Project, Library of Congress
Mr. Van Oudenaren directs a team drawn from various parts of the Library that
seeks assistance and advice from within the Library and from collaborating
institutions worldwide to develop a plan for a WDL. He has served as chief of
the Library's European Division since 1996 and he also heads the Library's
Global Gateway digital library project, which was launched in 2000. Prior to
joining the Library, he worked at the RAND Corporation, the U.S. Department of
State and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies.

Daniel Kaufmann
Director, Global Programs and Governance, World Bank Institute
Mr. Kaufmann has expertise in public sector reform, governance and
anti-corruption. He has also focused much work over the years and written
extensively on investment climate, corporate ethics and business development.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in
Washington, DC. The mission is to conduct high-quality, independent research
and, based on that research, to provide innovative, practical recommendations
that advance three broad goals: strengthen American democracy; foster the
economic and social welfare, security and opportunity of all Americans and
secure a more open, safe, prosperous and cooperative international system.
For more information, visit: www.brookings.edu

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: Strobe Talbott in the InfoShop on Tuesday, April 22 at 12:00 pm

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cordially invite you to a book launch of a recent Brookings Institution Press
publication
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| | States, and The Quest for a Global Nation |
| | |
| Tuesday, April | This dramatic narrative of breathtaking |
| 22, 2008 | scope and riveting focus puts the "story" |
| 12:00 - 2:00 pm | back into history. It is the saga of how |
| Auditorium | the most ambitious of big ideas -- that a |
| J1-050 | world made up of many nations can govern |
| World Bank J | itself peacefully -- has played out over |
| Building | the millennia. Humankind's "Great |
| 701 18th Street | Experiment" goes back to the most ancient |
| NW | of days -- literally to the Garden of |
| A light lunch | Eden -- and into the present, with an eye |
| will follow the | to the future. |
| presentation | |
| | Offering an insider's view of how the |
| | world is governed today, Talbott |
| | interweaves through this epic tale |
| | personal insights and experiences and |
| | takes us with him behind the scenes and |
| | into the presence of world leaders as |
| | they square off or cut deals with each |
| | other. As an acclaimed journalist, he |
| | covered the standoff between the |
| | superpowers for more than two decades; as |
| | a high-level diplomat, he was in the |
| | thick of tumultuous events in the 1990s, |
| | when the bipolar equilibrium gave way to |
| | chaos in the Balkans, the emergence of a |
| | new breed of international terrorist, and |
| | America's assertiveness during its |
| | "unipolar moment" -- which he sees as the |
| | latest, but not the last, stage in the |
| | Great Experiment. |
| | |
| | For more information about the book and |
| | to order it, please click here. |
| | |
| | |
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CHAIRED BY
Michele De Nevers
Senior Manager, Sustainable Development Vice-Presidency, World Bank
Ms. de Nevers is the Senior Manager for environment and climate
change in the Sustainable Development Vice-Presidency. She
previously was Director of Sector and Thematic Programs in WBI and
has extensive experience in environment and capacity development
issues.

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Strobe Talbott
President, The Brookings Institution
Mr. Talbott, whose career spans journalism, government service, and
academe, is an expert on U.S. foreign policy, with specialties on
Europe, Russia, South Asia, and nuclear arms control. As deputy
secretary of state in the Clinton administration, Talbott was deeply
involved in both the conduct of U.S. policy abroad and the
management of executive branch relations with Congress.

COMMENTS BY
John van Oudenaren
Director, World Digital Library Project, Library of Congress
Mr. Van Oudenaren directs a team drawn from various parts of the
Library that seeks assistance and advice from within the Library and
from collaborating institutions worldwide to develop a plan for a
WDL. He has served as chief of the Library's European Division since
1996 and he also heads the Library's Global Gateway digital library
project, which was launched in 2000. Prior to joining the Library,
he worked at the RAND Corporation, the U.S. Department of State and
the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies.

Daniel Kaufmann
Director, Global Programs and Governance, World Bank Institute
Mr. Kaufmann has expertise in public sector reform, governance and
anti-corruption. He has also focused much work over the years and
written extensively on investment climate, corporate ethics and
business development.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization
based in Washington, DC. The mission is to conduct high-quality,
independent research and, based on that research, to provide
innovative, practical recommendations that advance three broad
goals: strengthen American democracy; foster the economic and social
welfare, security and opportunity of all Americans and secure a more
open, safe, prosperous and cooperative international system.
For more information, visit: www.brookings.edu

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 Maghreb Center Annual Conference on Monday, April 21

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& The Maghreb Center in Washington, DC

invite you to

The Maghreb Center Annual Conference 2008:
Maghreb Development, Strategic Resources and the Environment in a
Globalized World

Location Georgetown University Intercultural Center Auditorium
Date: April 21, 2008, 9am to 4:30pm
RSVP requested:  RSVP@maghrebcenter.org

Introduction & Keynote: 9:00am / 9:30am

Néjib Ayachi, President Maghreb Center

Stephen J. King, Vice-President, Maghreb Center

Alan Richards, University of California at Santa Cruz, Honorary
Chair & Keynote Speaker

Panel 1: 9:30am -11am : Energy: Oil, Gas, and Renewable Energies

With oil prices hovering above $100 a barrel, what is the impact on
Maghreb economies, on oil-exporting as well as oil-deprived states
such as Morocco and to a certain extend Tunisia? How can the latter
benefit from the intensive interest in renewable and non-fossil
sources of energy? What are the prospects for regional cooperation
in the field of energy?

1. Oil and gas

General update on the hydrocarbon sector in Algeria, Libya and
Mauritania; and an analysis of its contribution to a broader
development strategy.
Ben Cahill, Manager at PFC, an energy consulting firm specializing
in the financial, strategic, commercial, political aspects of the
int'l oil, gas and power industry

Oil in Algeria's political economy and its broader development
strategy.
Azzedine Layachi, Associate Professor, Government Dept., St. John's
University

Libya's Oil Economy and its broader development strategy.
Dirk Vanderwalle, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth
College

2. Alternative energies

Maghrebi countries, especially Morocco and Tunisia, are developing
alternative sources of energy (solar, wind, etc.). What is their
strategy? How successful are they (prospects)?
John Moore (Dept. of Energy). Alternative energies in a globalized
world with focus on Maghrebi countries

11:00 Break

Panel 2: 11:15-12:45 - Water and the Environment

Land Degradation and Desertification Causes and Solutions
Dr. Lakhdar Boukerrou (Chair), Research Professor,
Department of Geosciences, Coordinator Research Programs, Center for
Environmental Studies, Adjunct Professor, College of Business,
Florida Atlantic University

How have issues of land degradation and desertification affected the
economic development of the region? What are some practical
solutions to the problem of land degradation and desertification?
What are the policy priorities which need to be addressed by the
countries of the Maghreb?

Water and Rural Development
Mrs. Julia Bucknall, Lead Natural Resources Management Specialist
The World Bank, MENA Region
Is there a serious water shortage in the Maghreb? How does it affect
the people of the region? Do water shortages affect some more than
others? How does drought affect the food supply/food security of the
region? What irrigation policies are in place to ensure the
availability of water for agriculture and domestic consumption? What
can the countries of the region do about it?

Poverty, Rural Development and the Environment
Dr. Len Berry, Director Center for Environmental Studies,
Distinguished Research Professor Florida Atlantic University
What policies and environmental issues have contributed to rural
poverty? How can the Maghreb countries collectively as well as
individually remedy the problem of poverty? How could rural
development contribute to the alleviation of poverty?

1:00-2:30: Luncheon with Distinguished Guests (Meet the Ambassadors
of the Five Maghrebi Countries). By Invitation Only

Panel 3: 2:30- 4:30 - Economic Development of the Maghreb and the
Global Economy

This panel examines current trends in Maghrebi countries economic
development in relation to the global economy, focusing on relations
with their major trading partners, Europe and the US, with an
emphasize on oil and gas and other natural resources in the case of
Algeria, Libya and Mauritania; and other sectors in the case of
Morocco and Tunisia -particularly those affected by issues of
energy, and water (such as agricultural exports, and tourism),
renewable energies, etc.

The Barcelona Process and the Maghrebi countries.
William Zartman, Professor of International Organizations and
Conflict Resolution and Director of the Conflict Management Program
at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at
Johns Hopkins University (SAIS)

Tunisia in the Global Economy, focusing on trade relations with
Europe & the US. Clement M. Henry, Professor, Department of
Government, University of Texas at Austin

Morocco in the Global Economy, focusing on trade relations with
Europe & the US.
Abdessalem Maghraoui, Visiting Associate Professor of Political
Science and Research Scholar at Duke University

Maghreb Integration and the Global Economy.
Stuart Eizenstat, Former Deputy Treasury Secretary, Former under
Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, and author of the
Eizenstat Initiative for Maghreb economic integration

Closing Remarks

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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: Panel Discussion on "Services Trade Reform and International Negotiations" on Friday, April 18 at noon in J1-050

World Bank Public Information Center/InfoShop & World Bank Institute - Trade
Unit

invite you to a panel discussion followed by a lunch reception

Services Trade Reform and International Negotiations

A panel of policymakers, analysts, and advisors will debate the status,
prospects, and economic implications of ?Services Trade Reform and International
Negotiations, " in occasion of the launch of the "Handbook of International
Trade in Services," an Oxford University Press publication.

International trade in services is becoming increasingly important to developing
countries. Exports of services, including in new areas, are contributing to
the growth of many developing countries, while the provision of efficient
services has become pivotal to the competitiveness of their merchandise exports.
Services trade is also an area where much opening is happening through
unilateral reforms and in bilateral negotiations, but not in multilateral or
regional negotiations. The new publication provides a comprehensive treatment of
the development implications of trade in services and how to maximize the
benefits and minimize the flaws of reform programs. Such flaws may include
failure to recognize the importance of sound and appropriate prudential
regulation, increased competition, and policies to ensure greater services
access for the poor.

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

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

CHAIRED BY
Roumeen Islam
Manager, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit, World Bank Institute

PRESENTATIONS BY
Gianni Zanini
Lead Economist and WBIPR Trade Program Leader, World Bank Institute

Aaditya Mattoo
Lead Economist, Development Research Group (DECRG), World Bank

DISCUSSION BY
Christine Bliss
Assistant USTR for Services and Investment, United States Trade Representative
(USTR)

Mario Marconini (Via video conference from Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Managing Director, ManattJones Marconini (Former Foreign Trade Secretary of
Brazil)

Dominique Njinkeu
Executive Director, International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty (ILEAP)

CONCLUDING REMARKS BY
Uri Dadush
Director, International Trade Department and Development Prospects Group, 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