"The Dinosaur Among Us: The World Bank and its Path to Extinction" on September 6 at 12:00pm in JB1-080

InfoShop invite you to a book launch of a recent publication

The Dinosaur Among Us: The World Bank and its Path to Extinction
By Jeffrey C. Hooke

As poverty's two stepchildren - terrorism and failed states - pose major
problems, bettering Third World economies is vitally important to the West.
The author argues that a principal tool in this effort, the World Bank, is
squandering opportunities and refusing to adapt to changing conditions.
Thursday, September 6, 2007
12:00pm
World Bank J Building, JB1- 080
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
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Introduced by
Cinnamon Dornsife
Associate Director, International Development Program at SAIS of Johns Hopkins
University
Ms. Dornsife is a senior executive, negotiator and advocate with nearly
thirty years experience in international banking, economic development and
foreign policy. Currently, she is serving on the faculty and as Associate
Director, International Development Program, at the Paul H. Nitze School of
Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. Additionally,
she sits on the Bretton Woods Committee and the Boards of Directors for the
Development Executive Group, the Japan America Institute for Management
Sciences, First Voice International and the Board of Advisors for the
US-Indonesia Society. Ms. Dornsife consults in the fields of development
policy, aid effectiveness, strategic philanthropy, international financial
policy and sustainable economic development.

Presented by Author
Jeffrey Hooke
Mr. Hooke spent six years at the World Bank. Now a consultant, he was formerly a
director of Emerging Markets Partnership, an investment officer of the Bank, and
an investment banker with Lehman Brothers. The author of three previous books on
finance, he has taught at several universities and has written studies for
public policy groups such as the Reason Foundation.

Comments by
Vinay Bhargava
Former World Bank Director
Mr. Bhargava is an author, professor, and consultant in the areas of governance,
global issues and international financial institutions. Currently, he is a
consultant to the World Bank and serves as Adviser to the Partnership for
Transparency Fund, and as a member of the Professional Advisory Council for the
Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education at Kent
State University, USA. In 2007, Mr. Bhargava was Senior Advisor for Public
Sector Governance and External Affairs at the World Bank. From 2002 to 2006, he
was Director of International Affairs and Operations at the World Bank.From
1997-2001 he was the World Bank Country Director for the Philippines.He has
taught at the Georgetown, American, Horshima and Kobe Universities. Mr. Bhargava
is the lead author of Combating Corruption in the Philippines, (published in
2000), and Challenging Corruption in Asia. He was editor of Global Issues for
Global Citizens, published by the World Bank in September 2006. He has
contributed a chapter to the book The Many Faces of Corruption, published by the
World Bank in 2007.

For more Information or to order the book, please visit:
http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=6966537
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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 Dinosaur Among Us: The World Bank and its Path to Extinction" on September 6 at 12:00pm in J1-050

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invite you to a book launch of a recent publication
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| | By Jeffrey C. Hooke |
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| | As poverty's two stepchildren - terrorism |
| | and failed states - pose major problems, |
| | bettering Third World economies is vitally |
| | important to the West. The author argues |
| | that a principal tool in this effort, the |
| | World Bank, is squandering opportunities |
| | and refusing to adapt to changing |
| | conditions. |
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Thursday, September 6, 2007
12:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Introduced by
Cinnamon Dornsife
Associate Director, International Development Program at SAIS of Johns Hopkins
University
Ms. Dornsife is a senior executive, negotiator and advocate with
nearly thirty years experience in international banking, economic
development and foreign policy. Currently, she is serving on the
faculty and as Associate Director, International Development
Program, at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. Additionally, she sits on
the Bretton Woods Committee and the Boards of Directors for the
Development Executive Group, the Japan America Institute for
Management Sciences, First Voice International and the Board
of Advisors for the US-Indonesia Society. Ms. Dornsife consults
in the fields of development policy, aid effectiveness, strategic
philanthropy, international financial policy and sustainable
economic development.

Presented by Author
Jeffrey Hooke
Mr. Hooke spent six years at the World Bank. Now a consultant, he
was formerly a director of Emerging Markets Partnership, an
investment officer of the Bank, and an investment banker with Lehman
Brothers. The author of three previous books on finance, he has
taught at several universities and has written studies for public
policy groups such as the Reason Foundation.

Comments by
Vinay Bhargava
Former World Bank Director
Mr. Bhargava is an author, professor, and consultant in the areas of
governance, global issues and international financial institutions.
Currently, he is a consultant to the World Bank and serves as
Adviser to the Partnership for Transparency Fund, and as a member of
the Professional Advisory Council for the Gerald H. Read Center for
International and Intercultural Education at Kent State University,
USA. In 2007, Mr. Bhargava was Senior Advisor for Public Sector
Governance and External Affairs at the World Bank. From 2002 to
2006, he was Director of International Affairs and Operations at the
World Bank.From 1997-2001 he was the World Bank Country Director for
the Philippines.He has taught at the Georgetown, American, Horshima
and Kobe Universities. Mr. Bhargava is the lead author of Combating
Corruption in the Philippines, (published in 2000), and Challenging
Corruption in Asia. He was editor of Global Issues for Global
Citizens, published by the World Bank in September 2006. He has
contributed a chapter to the book The Many Faces of Corruption,
published by the World Bank in 2007.

For more Information or to order the book, please visit:

http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=6966537

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Informality: Exit and Exclusion in Latin America" discussed at the InfoShop on September 4 at 11:00 am in J1-050

InfoShop & Latin America and the Caribbean Department

Invite you to a debate focusing on how informality impacts development, and
highlighting the economic and individual costs of informality for poor and
vulnerable people in Latin America and the Caribbean working outside the formal
economy.

Informality: Exit and Exclusion in Latin America
by Guillermo E. Perry, William F. Maloney, Omar Arias, Pablo Fajnzylber, Andrew
Mason, Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi

Informality in Latin American and Caribbean countries has been a growing
phenomenon over the last few decades, garnering attention as a potential brake
on growth and on improvements in family welfare, and as a force corrosive to the
integrity of society.
Informality: Exit and Exclusion analyzes informality in Latin America, exploring
root causes and reasons for and implications of its growth.
The study concludes that reducing informality levels will require actions to
increase aggregate productivity in the economy, reform poorly designed
regulations and social policies, and increase the legitimacy of the state.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
11:00 a.m.
For non bank staff, please RSVP to infoShopevents@worldbank.org
World Bank J Building, J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served

Moderated by
Sergio Jellinek
Communications Advisor, Latin America and the Caribbean External Affairs
Department, World Bank
Sergio Alvaro Jellinek was recently appointed as Communications Advisor for the
Latin America and the Caribbean Region at the World Bank. Before holding this
position, he was the Communications Advisor for Sustainable Development at the
World Bank. Working in the Latin America and the Caribbean Vice-Presidency, Mr.
Jellinek 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 that
integrates its three pillars: economic, social, and environmental, and that
works worldwide. He has extensive experience in developing countries both as a
working journalist and as an advisor to international organizations.

Presented by
Guillermo Perry
Retiring World Bank Regional Chief Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean
Region, World Bank
Guillermo Perry has been Chief Economist of the Latin America and the Caribbean
Region at the World Bank since 1996. Prior to joining the World Bank, Mr. Perry
served in several senior policy-making positions in his native country,
Colombia, including that of Minister of Finance and Public Credit; Minister of
Mining and Energy; and Director of the General Directorate of National Taxes.
He served as a member of the Constitutional Assembly and of the Senate of the
Republic in Colombia. He was also Director of two of Colombia?s leading
economic think-tanks (Fedesarrollo and CEDE) and has been professor at
Universidad de los Andes and Universidad Nacional de Colombia. For more
information, please click here: Guillermo Perry Bio.

William Maloney
Lead Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
William F. Maloney is Lead Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist, Latin
America and the Caribbean Region of the World Bank. Before joining the Bank
permanently, he was Professor of International and Development Economics at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1990-1997). He also served as a
consultant for the Bank on Mexico (1994-95) and Nigeria (1986) and the Harvard
Kennedy School of Government (1982). Mr. Maloney has published on issues related
to international trade, the impact and sequencing of liberalization, speculative
attacks on currencies, and developing country labor markets. For more
information, please click here: William Maloney bio

Comments by
Liliana Rojas-Suarez
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Liliana Rojas-Suarez is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development.
She is also the Chair of the Latin American Shadow Financial Regulatory
Committee(CLAFF). From March 1998 to October 2000, she served as Managing
Director and Chief Economist for Latin America at Deutsche Bank. Before joining
Deutsche Bank, Ms. Rojas-Suarez was the Principal Advisor in the Office of the
Chief Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank. Between 1984-1994 she
held various positions at the International Monetary Fund, most recently as
Deputy Chief of the Capital Markets and Financial Studies Division of the
Research Department. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for
International Economics and has also served as a Professor at Anahuac University
in Mexico and an Advisor for PEMEX, Mexico's National Petroleum Company. Ms.
Rojas-Suarez has also testified before a Joint Committee of the US Senate on the
issue of dollarization in Latin America. Ms. Rojas-Suarez has published widely
in the areas of macroeconomic policy, international economics and financial
markets. For more information, please click here: Liliana Rojas-Suarez

Maria Claudia Camacho
Specialist, Department of Social Development and Employment, Organization of
American States
Maria Claudia Camacho is a Labor Specialist in the Department of Social
Development and Employment at the Organization of American States (OAS). In her
current position, she is in charge of coordinating the activities related to the
Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor, which aims to set the
hemispheric policy priorities and actions on labor issues. Before joining the
OAS, Ms. Camacho worked as a consultant for the World Bank on a project
regarding youth programs and policies. In Colombia, her home country, she worked
at the Red de Solidaridad Social and UNDP, designing and evaluating programs
aimed at addressing the needs of vulnerable groups. Her academic, personal and
professional interests have been focused on labor markets in Latin America and
on the challenges presented by the informal economy.

For more information or to order the report, please visit:
http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=6532716
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Informality: Exit and Exclusion in Latin America" discussed at the InfoShop on September 4th at 11:00 am in J1-050

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&
Latin America and the Caribbean Region

Invite you to a debate focusing on how informality impacts
development, and highlighting the economic and individual costs of
informality for poor and vulnerable people in Latin America and the
Caribbean working outside the formal economy.
|-----------------------------+------------------------------------|
| | |
| | |
| (Embedded image moved to | Informality: Exit and Exclusion in |
| file: pic28070.jpg) | Latin America |
| | by Guillermo E. Perry, William F. |
| | Maloney, Omar Arias, Pablo |
| | Fajnzylber, Andrew Mason, Jaime |
| | Saavedra-Chanduvi |
| | |
| | Informality in Latin American and |
| | Caribbean countries has been a |
| | growing phenomenon over the last |
| | few decades, garnering attention |
| | as a potential brake on growth and |
| | on improvements in family welfare, |
| | and as a force corrosive to the |
| | integrity of society. |
| | Informality: Exit and Exclusion |
| | analyzes informality in Latin |
| | America, exploring root causes and |
| | reasons for and implications of |
| | its growth. |
| | The study concludes that reducing |
| | informality levels will require |
| | actions to increase aggregate |
| | productivity in the economy, |
| | reform poorly designed regulations |
| | and social policies, and increase |
| | the legitimacy of the state. |
| | |
|-----------------------------+------------------------------------|

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
11:00 a.m.
World Bank J Building, J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served

Moderated by
Sergio Jellinek
Communications Advisor, Latin America and the Caribbean External Affairs
Department, World Bank
Sergio Alvaro Jellinek was recently appointed as Communications
Advisor for the Latin America and the Caribbean Region at the World
Bank. Before holding this position, he was the Communications
Advisor for Sustainable Development at the World Bank. Working in
the Latin America and the Caribbean Vice-Presidency, Mr. Jellinek
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 that integrates its three pillars:
economic, social, and environmental, and that works worldwide. He
has extensive experience in developing countries both as a working
journalist and as an advisor to international organizations.

Presented by
Guillermo Perry
Retiring World Bank Regional Chief Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean
Region, World Bank
Guillermo Perry has been Chief Economist of the Latin America and
the Caribbean Region at the World Bank since 1996. Prior to joining
the World Bank, Mr. Perry served in several senior policy-making
positions in his native country, Colombia, including that of
Minister of Finance and Public Credit; Minister of Mining and
Energy; and Director of the General Directorate of National Taxes.
He served as a member of the Constitutional Assembly and of the
Senate of the Republic in Colombia. He was also Director of two of
Colombia?s leading economic think-tanks (Fedesarrollo and CEDE) and
has been professor at Universidad de los Andes and Universidad
Nacional de Colombia. For more information, please click here:
Guillermo Perry Bio.

William Maloney
Lead Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank
William F. Maloney is Lead Economist in the Office of the Chief
Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region of the World Bank.
Before joining the Bank permanently, he was Professor of
International and Development Economics at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1990-1997). He also served as a
consultant for the Bank on Mexico (1994-95) and Nigeria (1986) and
the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (1982). Mr. Maloney has
published on issues related to international trade, the impact and
sequencing of liberalization, speculative attacks on currencies, and
developing country labor markets. For more information, please click
here: William Maloney bio

Comments by
Liliana Rojas-Suarez
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
Liliana Rojas-Suarez is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global
Development. She is also the Chair of the Latin American Shadow
Financial Regulatory Committee(CLAFF). From March 1998 to October
2000, she served as Managing Director and Chief Economist for Latin
America at Deutsche Bank. Before joining Deutsche Bank, Ms.
Rojas-Suarez was the Principal Advisor in the Office of the Chief
Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank. Between 1984-1994
she held various positions at the International Monetary Fund, most
recently as Deputy Chief of the Capital Markets and Financial
Studies Division of the Research Department. She has been a Visiting
Fellow at the Institute for International Economics and has also
served as a Professor at Anahuac University in Mexico and an Advisor
for PEMEX, Mexico's National Petroleum Company. Ms. Rojas-Suarez has
also testified before a Joint Committee of the US Senate on the
issue of dollarization in Latin America. Ms. Rojas-Suarez has
published widely in the areas of macroeconomic policy, international
economics and financial markets. For more information, please click
here: Liliana Rojas-Suarez

Maria Claudia Camacho
Specialist, Department of Social Development and Employment, Organization of
American States
Maria Claudia Camacho is a Labor Specialist in the Department of
Social Development and Employment at the Organization of American
States (OAS). In her current position, she is in charge of
coordinating the activities related to the Inter-American Conference
of Ministers of Labor, which aims to set the hemispheric policy
priorities and actions on labor issues. Before joining the OAS, Ms.
Camacho worked as a consultant for the World Bank on a project
regarding youth programs and policies. In Colombia, her home
country, she worked at the Red de Solidaridad Social and UNDP,
designing and evaluating programs aimed at addressing the needs of
vulnerable groups. Her academic, personal and professional
interests have been focused on labor markets in Latin America and on
the challenges presented by the informal economy.

For more information or to order the report, please visit:

http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=6532716

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: "How to Build M&E Systems to Support Better Government" discussed at the InfoShop on August 1 at 12:30pm in J1-050

InfoShop and Independant Evalution group, World Bank, invite you to a book
launch of a recent publication
How to Build M&E Systems to Support Better Government
by Keith Mackay

Governments in a number of developing countries are devoting considerable
efforts to strengthen their monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems and
capacities. They are doing this to improve their performance ― by establishing
evidence-based policy-making and budget decision-making, evidence-based
management, and evidence-based accountability.

This volume highlights the experience of several countries which have succeeded
in building a well-functioning government M&E system, including Chile, Colombia
and Australia. The special case of Africa, where there are many severe capacity
constraints, is also examined. Ways to strengthen a government M&E system and to
strengthen government demand for M&E are presented, and the importance of
conducting a country diagnosis and preparing an action plan are stressed.

Wednesday, August 1st
12:30 pm
World Bank J Building, J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served

Vinod Thomas
Director-General Evaluation, World Bank
Mr. Thomas was formerly Country Director for Brazil. Prior to that, he was Vice
President of the World Bank Institute. Before heading WBI, he held positions as
Chief Economist for the World Bank in the East Asia and Pacific Region. He was
the staff Director for the 1991 World Development Report, entitled "The
Challenge of Development" which assessed the world's development experience. He
was also Chief of Trade Policy and Principal Economist for Colombia.

Keith Mackay
Author
Mr. Mackay is Senior Evaluation Officer, Independent Evaluation Group, World
Bank and author of "How To Build M&E Systems To Support Better Government." Mr.
Mackay is the coordinator of the Independent Evaluation Group's efforts to help
countries strengthen their national monitoring and evaluation systems to improve
government performance. He has worked closely with a number of Bank country
teams, and initiated IEG's program of research and working papers on this topic
(available at http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/ecd/). Before joining the Bank in
1997, he was the manager of the Australian Government's national evaluation
system, based in the Department of Finance.

Jiayi Zou
Executive Director, World Bank
Ms. Zou has served as the Executive Director (ED) for China since February 2005.
Prior to becoming the ED for China, Ms. Zou was the Deputy Director-General,
International Department, Ministry of Finance, Beijing China. She also served
as the Director, International Financial Institution, Division I, for the
International Department in the Ministry of Finance, Beijing China. Ms. Zou is
also a former Alternate ED, and Advisor for the China ED's office.

Jeff Gutman
Vice President, OPCS
Mr. Gutman, joined the Bank in 1979 as a transport economist in the Latin
America and Caribbean Region and was promoted to Deputy Division Chief in 1984.
Since then, he has held various managerial positions including Division Chief
for Infrastructure and for Agriculture and Environment in Southeast Asia, and
Sector Manager for the Transport Sector Unit in the East Asia and Pacific
Region. In 1998, he transferred to the Latin America and Caribbean Region to
become Sector Manager for the Transport and Urban clusters. In September 2001,
he was appointed Director, Strategy and Operations in the East Asia and Pacific
Region, and he served as Acting Regional Vice President for one year beginning
December 2005. In January 2007, Mr. Gutman was appointed Vice President and Head
of Network, Operations Policy and Country Services. In this capacity, he is
responsible for operational policy development; procurement and financial
management activities; the Bank's aid effectiveness, results, and fragile states
agendas; and support to Regional staff working in all these areas.
For more information or to order this title please visit,

http://www.worldbankinfoshop.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=6872665

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: "How to Build M&E Systems to Support Better Government" discussed at the InfoShop on August 1 at 12:30pm in J1-050

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&
IEG,  WORLD BANK
Independent Evaluation Group

Invite you to a book launch of a recent IEG publication
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| | |
| | |
| (Embedded image moved to | How to Build M&E Systems to Support |
| file: pic05725.jpg) | Better Government |
| | by Keith Mackay |
| | |
| | Governments in a number of developing |
| | countries are devoting considerable |
| | efforts to strengthen their |
| | monitoring and evaluation (M&E) |
| | systems and capacities. They are |
| | doing this to improve their |
| | performance ― by establishing |
| | evidence-based policy-making and |
| | budget decision-making, |
| | evidence-based management, and |
| | evidence-based accountability. |
| | |
| | This volume highlights the experience |
| | of several countries which have |
| | succeeded in building a |
| | well-functioning government M&E |
| | system, including Chile, Colombia and |
| | Australia. The special case of |
| | Africa, where there are many severe |
| | capacity constraints, is also |
| | examined. Ways to strengthen a |
| | government M&E system and to |
| | strengthen government demand for M&E |
| | are presented, and the importance of |
| | conducting a country diagnosis and |
| | preparing an action plan are |
| | stressed. |
| | |
|--------------------------+---------------------------------------|



Wednesday, August 1st
12:30 pm
World Bank J Building, J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served


Vinod Thomas
Director-General Evaluation, World Bank
Mr. Thomas was formerly Country Director for Brazil. Prior to that,
he was Vice President of the World Bank Institute. Before heading
WBI, he held positions as Chief Economist for the World Bank in the
East Asia and Pacific Region. He was the staff Director for the 1991
World Development Report, entitled "The Challenge of Development"
which assessed the world's development experience. He was also Chief
of Trade Policy and Principal Economist for Colombia.

Keith Mackay
Author
Mr. Mackay is Senior Evaluation Officer, Independent Evaluation
Group, World Bank and author of "How To Build M&E Systems To
Support Better Government." Mr. Mackay is the coordinator of the
Independent Evaluation Group's efforts to help countries strengthen
their national monitoring and evaluation systems to improve
government performance. He has worked closely with a number of Bank
country teams, and initiated IEG's program of research and working
papers on this topic (available at http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/ecd/

). Before joining the Bank in 1997, he was the manager of the
Australian Government's national evaluation system, based in the
Department of Finance.

Jiayi Zou
Executive Director, World Bank
Ms. Zou has served as the Executive Director (ED) for China since
February 2005. Prior to becoming the ED for China, Ms. Zou was the
Deputy Director-General, International Department, Ministry of
Finance, Beijing China. She also served as the Director,
International Financial Institution, Division I, for the
International Department in the Ministry of Finance, Beijing China.
Ms. Zou is also a former Alternate ED, and Advisor for the China
ED's office.

Jeff Gutman
Vice President, OPCS
Mr. Gutman, joined the Bank in 1979 as a transport economist in the
Latin America and Caribbean Region and was promoted to Deputy
Division Chief in 1984. Since then, he has held various managerial
positions including Division Chief for Infrastructure and for
Agriculture and Environment in Southeast Asia, and Sector Manager
for the Transport Sector Unit in the East Asia and Pacific Region.
In 1998, he transferred to the Latin America and Caribbean Region to
become Sector Manager for the Transport and Urban clusters. In
September 2001, he was appointed Director, Strategy and Operations
in the East Asia and Pacific Region, and he served as Acting
Regional Vice President for one year beginning December 2005. In
January 2007, Mr. Gutman was appointed Vice President and Head of
Network, Operations Policy and Country Services. In this capacity,
he is responsible for operational policy development; procurement
and financial management activities; the Bank's aid effectiveness,
results, and fragile states agendas; and support to Regional staff
working in all these areas.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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
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"How to Build M&E Systems to Support Better Government" discussed at the InfoShop on August 1 at 12:30pm in J1-050

InfoShop and Independant Evalution group, World Bank, invite you to a book
launch of a recent publication
How to Build M&E Systems to Support Better Government
by Keith Mackay

Governments in a number of developing countries are devoting considerable
efforts to strengthen their monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems and
capacities. They are doing this to improve their performance ― by establishing
evidence-based policy-making and budget decision-making, evidence-based
management, and evidence-based accountability.

This volume highlights the experience of several countries which have succeeded
in building a well-functioning government M&E system, including Chile, Colombia
and Australia. The special case of Africa, where there are many severe capacity
constraints, is also examined. Ways to strengthen a government M&E system and to
strengthen government demand for M&E are presented, and the importance of
conducting a country diagnosis and preparing an action plan are stressed.

Wednesday, August 1st
12:30 pm
World Bank J Building, J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
A light lunch will be served

Vinod Thomas
Director-General Evaluation, World Bank
Mr. Thomas was formerly Country Director for Brazil. Prior to that, he was Vice
President of the World Bank Institute. Before heading WBI, he held positions as
Chief Economist for the World Bank in the East Asia and Pacific Region. He was
the staff Director for the 1991 World Development Report, entitled "The
Challenge of Development" which assessed the world's development experience. He
was also Chief of Trade Policy and Principal Economist for Colombia.

Keith Mackay
Author
Mr. Mackay is Senior Evaluation Officer, Independent Evaluation Group, World
Bank and author of "How To Build M&E Systems To Support Better Government." Mr.
Mackay is the coordinator of the Independent Evaluation Group's efforts to help
countries strengthen their national monitoring and evaluation systems to improve
government performance. He has worked closely with a number of Bank country
teams, and initiated IEG's program of research and working papers on this topic
(available at http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/ecd/). Before joining the Bank in
1997, he was the manager of the Australian Government's national evaluation
system, based in the Department of Finance.

Jiayi Zou
Executive Director, World Bank
Ms. Zou has served as the Executive Director (ED) for China since February 2005.
Prior to becoming the ED for China, Ms. Zou was the Deputy Director-General,
International Department, Ministry of Finance, Beijing China. She also served
as the Director, International Financial Institution, Division I, for the
International Department in the Ministry of Finance, Beijing China. Ms. Zou is
also a former Alternate ED, and Advisor for the China ED's office.

Jeff Gutman
Vice President, OPCS
Mr. Gutman, joined the Bank in 1979 as a transport economist in the Latin
America and Caribbean Region and was promoted to Deputy Division Chief in 1984.
Since then, he has held various managerial positions including Division Chief
for Infrastructure and for Agriculture and Environment in Southeast Asia, and
Sector Manager for the Transport Sector Unit in the East Asia and Pacific
Region. In 1998, he transferred to the Latin America and Caribbean Region to
become Sector Manager for the Transport and Urban clusters. In September 2001,
he was appointed Director, Strategy and Operations in the East Asia and Pacific
Region, and he served as Acting Regional Vice President for one year beginning
December 2005. In January 2007, Mr. Gutman was appointed Vice President and Head
of Network, Operations Policy and Country Services. In this capacity, he is
responsible for operational policy development; procurement and financial
management activities; the Bank's aid effectiveness, results, and fragile states
agendas; and support to Regional staff working in all these areas.
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