REMINDER: U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel discusses "America's Role in International Development" on Tuesday, July 29 at 5:30 pm in Preston Auditorium

EVENT UPDATE:
ELI WHITNEY DEBEVOISE TO GIVE CLOSING REMARKS

PLEASE NOTE: VENUE HAS BEEN MOVED TO PRESTON AUDITORIUM IN THE MAIN COMPLEX
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| | |
| | |
| | America's Role in |
| | International Development |
| | |
| (Embedded image moved to | The InfoShop, External |
| file: pic05249.jpg) | Affairs, & Development |
| | Executive Group invite you |
| | to a joint event featuring |
| | the Honorable Chuck Hagel, |
| | Nebraska?s senior U.S. |
| | Senator, who will discuss |
| | America's role in |
| | international development. |
| | |
| | Senator Hagel is serving his |
| | second term in the United |
| | States Senate, but will not |
| | seek re-election next year. |
| | He has recently authored a |
| | book entitled, America: Our |
| | Next Chapter. He is the |
| | ranking member of the U.S. |
| | Senate Subcommittee on |
| | International Development |
| | and Foreign Assistance, the |
| | subcommittee whose purview |
| | includes U.S. participation |
| | in the World Bank. Senator |
| | Hagel is a member of key |
| | Senate committees including, |
| | Foreign Relations, Banking, |
| | Housing and Urban Affairs, |
| | as well as Intelligence and |
| | Rules, and he is widely |
| | mentioned in the media as a |
| | potential vice presidential |
| | candidate or cabinet member |
| | in the next administration. |
| | |
| | |
|---------------------------------+--------------------------------|

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
5:30 - 7:00 PM
Book signing and wine & cheese reception to follow

Preston Auditorium
World Bank Main Complex
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC

OPENING REMARKS
Robert B. Zoellick
President, World Bank Group

INTRODUCTION
Raj Kumar
President, The Development Executive Group

PRESENTATION
The Honorable Chuck Hagel
U.S. Senator, Nebraska, Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations

CLOSING REMARKS
Eli Whitney Debevoise
Executive Director, United States, World Bank Group
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the Development Executive Group (Devex)
Devex is a social enterprise bringing efficiency to international
development through recruiting and business information services.
Members find jobs, projects, news - and professional connections -
on devex.com.
With over 100,000 active members in its network, Devex serves most
of the major donor agencies, NGOs, companies, and individual
professionals working in international development around the world.

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program:
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EVENT UPDATE: U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel discusses "America's Role in International Development" on Tuesday, July 29 at 5:30 pm

DUE TO OVERWHELMING RESPONSE, EVENT REGISTRATION HAS BEEN CLOSED.
IF YOU RESERVED A SPACE BY 10:30 AM TODAY, YOU HAVE BEEN REGISTERED.
HOWEVER, SEATING WILL BE ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS.

PLEASE ALSO NOTE: VENUE HAS BEEN CHANGED FROM BLACK TO PRESTON AUDITORIUM IN THE
MAIN COMPLEX.

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External Affairs (EXT)

invite you to a special discussion on
|---------------------------------+--------------------------------|
| | |
| | |
| | America's Role in |
| | International Development |
| | |
| (Embedded image moved to | The InfoShop, External |
| file: pic10987.jpg) | Affairs, & Development |
| | Executive Group invite you |
| | to a joint event featuring |
| | the Honorable Chuck Hagel, |
| | Nebraska?s senior U.S. |
| | Senator, who will discuss |
| | America's role in |
| | international development. |
| | |
| | Senator Hagel is serving his |
| | second term in the United |
| | States Senate, but will not |
| | seek re-election next year. |
| | He has recently authored a |
| | book entitled, America: Our |
| | Next Chapter. He is the |
| | ranking member of the U.S. |
| | Senate Subcommittee on |
| | International Development |
| | and Foreign Assistance, the |
| | subcommittee whose purview |
| | includes U.S. participation |
| | in the World Bank. Senator |
| | Hagel is a member of key |
| | Senate committees including, |
| | Foreign Relations, Banking, |
| | Housing and Urban Affairs, |
| | as well as Intelligence and |
| | Rules, and he is widely |
| | mentioned in the media as a |
| | potential vice presidential |
| | candidate or cabinet member |
| | in the next administration. |
| | |
| | |
|---------------------------------+--------------------------------|

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
5:30 - 7:00 PM
Wine & cheese reception to follow

Preston Auditorium
World Bank Main Complex
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC

OPENING REMARKS
Robert B. Zoellick
President, World Bank Group

INTRODUCTION
Raj Kumar
President, The Development Executive Group

PRESENTATION
The Honorable Chuck Hagel
U.S. Senator, Nebraska, Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the Development Executive Group (Devex)
Devex is a social enterprise bringing efficiency to international
development through recruiting and business information services.
Members find jobs, projects, news - and professional connections -
on devex.com.
With over 100,000 active members in its network, Devex serves most
of the major donor agencies, NGOs, companies, and individual
professionals working in international development around the world.

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

SPECIAL EVENT: U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel discusses "America's Role in International Development" on Tuesday, July 29 at 5:30 pm

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External Affairs (EXT)

invite you to a special discussion on
|---------------------------------+--------------------------------|
| | |
| | |
| | America's Role in |
| | International Development |
| | |
| (Embedded image moved to | The InfoShop, External |
| file: pic19801.jpg) | Affairs, & Development |
| | Executive Group invite you |
| | to a joint event featuring |
| | the Honorable Chuck Hagel, |
| | Nebraska?s senior U.S. |
| | Senator, who will discuss |
| | America's role in |
| | international development. |
| | |
| | Senator Hagel is serving his |
| | second term in the United |
| | States Senate, but will not |
| | seek re-election next year. |
| | He has recently authored a |
| | book entitled, America: Our |
| | Next Chapter. He is the |
| | ranking member of the U.S. |
| | Senate Subcommittee on |
| | International Development |
| | and Foreign Assistance, the |
| | subcommittee whose purview |
| | includes U.S. participation |
| | in the World Bank. Senator |
| | Hagel is a member of key |
| | Senate committees including, |
| | Foreign Relations, Banking, |
| | Housing and Urban Affairs, |
| | as well as Intelligence and |
| | Rules, and he is widely |
| | mentioned in the media as a |
| | potential vice presidential |
| | candidate or cabinet member |
| | in the next administration. |
| | |
| | |
|---------------------------------+--------------------------------|

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
5:30 - 7:00 PM
Wine & cheese reception to follow

Eugene R. Black Auditorium
World Bank H Building
600 19th Street, NW
Washington, DC

OPENING REMARKS
Robert B. Zoellick
President, World Bank Group

INTRODUCTION
Raj Kumar
President, The Development Executive Group

PRESENTATION
The Honorable Chuck Hagel
U.S. Senator, Nebraska, Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations

______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the Development Executive Group (Devex)
Devex is a social enterprise bringing efficiency to international
development through recruiting and business information services.
Members find jobs, projects, news - and professional connections -
on devex.com.
With over 100,000 active members in its network, Devex serves most
of the major donor agencies, NGOs, companies, and individual
professionals working in international development around the world.

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: "Fertility Regulation Behaviors and Their Costs" discussed tomorrow at the World Bank

The World Bank InfoShop and Health, Nutrition & Population Unit

invite you to a panel discussion on

Fertility Regulation Behaviors and Their Costs
Contraception and Unintended Pregnancies in Africa and Eastern Europe & Central
Asia

Fertility levels have declined steadily over the last three decades but the pace
of decline varies among regions. Countries that have achieved a high level of
contraceptive use have reached a lower fertility level. A gap continues to exist
between actual and desired family size, resulting in unintended pregnancies.
More than one-third of the pregnancies that occur are unintended and one in five
pregnancies ends in induced abortion. Almost half of all induced abortions are
unsafe, and the proportion of all abortions that are unsafe has increased during
the last decade. Sixty-six percent of unintended pregnancies occur among women
who are not using any method of contraception.

Investing in quality family planning programs is a cost-effective way to address
unmet need for contraception and reduce the risks of unsafe abortion, thereby
improving maternal health. If contraception were provided to the 137 million
women who lack access, maternal mortality would decline by 25%?35%.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
3:00 - 4:30 pm
Auditorium J1-050
World Bank J Building
701 18th Street NW
Washington, DC

RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org by 9:00 AM on July 16
(please provide full name of all attendees and event name)

MODERATOR
Phillip Hay
Communications Adviser, Human Development Network, World Bank

PRESENTERS
Elizabeth Lule
Manager, AIDS Campaign Team for Africa (ACTafrica), World Bank

John May
Senior Population Specialist, Human Development Unit, Africa Region, World Bank

Michael Vlassoff
Senior Research Associate, Guttmacher Institute
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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: "Fertility Regulation Behaviors and Their Costs" discussed tomorrow at 3:00 pm in J1-050

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invite you to a panel discussion on
|---------------------+--------------------------------------------|
| | |
| | |
| | Fertility Regulation Behaviors and Their |
| | Costs |
| | Contraception and Unintended Pregnancies |
| (Embedded image | in Africa and |
| moved to file: | Eastern Europe & Central Asia |
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| | Fertility levels have declined steadily |
| | over the last three decades but the pace |
| | of decline varies among regions. |
| | Countries that have achieved a high |
| | level of contraceptive use have reached |
| | a lower fertility level. A gap continues |
| | to exist between actual and desired |
| | family size, resulting in unintended |
| | pregnancies. More than one-third of the |
| | pregnancies that occur are unintended |
| | and one in five pregnancies ends in |
| | induced abortion. Almost half of all |
| | induced abortions are unsafe, and the |
| | proportion of all abortions that are |
| | unsafe has increased during the last |
| | decade. Sixty-six percent of unintended |
| | pregnancies occur among women who are |
| | not using any method of contraception. |
| | |
| | Investing in quality family planning |
| | programs is a cost-effective way to |
| | address unmet need for contraception and |
| | reduce the risks of unsafe abortion, |
| | thereby improving maternal health. If |
| | contraception were provided to the 137 |
| | million women who lack access, maternal |
| | mortality would decline by 25%?35%. |
| | |
| | |
|---------------------+--------------------------------------------|

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
3:00 - 4:30 pm
Auditorium J1-050
World Bank J Building
701 18th Street NW
Washington, DC

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

MODERATOR
Phillip Hay
Communications Adviser, Human Development Network, World Bank
Mr. Hay is Communications Adviser for the Human Development Network
at the World Bank, helping to raise the profile and proven impact of
human development issues such as health, nutrition and population,
HIV/AIDS, education, etc., in the global and national media, and
within the wider development community. He also works closely with
key partners such as civil society, the specialist UN agencies,
parliamentarians, the private sector, and others to advance the
human development agenda. Mr. Hay is a former BBC Special
Correspondent and veteran commentator and writer on international
affairs.

PRESENTERS
Elizabeth Lule
Manager, AIDS Campaign Team for Africa (ACTafrica), World Bank
Ms. Lule is the Manager of ACTafrica, responsible for the overall
policy direction and coordination of the World Bank?s HIV/AIDS work
in Africa. Previously, she was Senior Adviser for Population and
Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health in the Bank's Human
Development Vice Presidency. She also worked with the Health,
Nutrition and Population Sector Board to strengthen the Bank?s
capacity and effectiveness in addressing population, reproductive
health, maternal and child health issues in Bank operations and
global knowledge management and sharing. Before joining the World
Bank in 2001, Ms. Lule was Africa Regional Vice President for
Pathfinder International.

John May
Senior Population Specialist, Human Development Unit, Africa Region,
World Bank
Mr. May has over 30 years of advisory and consulting experience in
the areas of demographic data collection and analysis, family
planning program design and evaluation, and population policy
analysis and implementation. He is currently a Senior Population
Specialist in the Africa Region at the World Bank. He has worked on
many population projects around the world for UNFPA, UNICEF, USAID,
and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
(IUSSP). Mr. May is also an Adjunct Professor in Demography at
Georgetown University and has published widely in the area of
population and family planning programs and policies.

Michael Vlassoff
Senior Research Associate, Guttmacher Institute
Mr. Vlassoff is a Senior Research Associate at the Guttmacher
Institute, where he has focused on the cost of abortion-related
morbidity and mortality. Previously, he worked for the United
Nations in various capacities in Latin America, Asia and at UN
headquarters in New York. His research centered on population and
development, particularly on the determinants and consequences of
fertility change. Mr. Vlassoff's career in the UN included positions
in both research and operations, including eleven years at the
United Nations Population Fund. During his time at UNFPA he was
Country Representative for India and Bhutan from 1998-2000.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Fertility Regulation Behaviors and Their Costs" discussed on Wednesday, July 16 at the World Bank

The World Bank InfoShop and Health, Nutrition & Population Unit

invite you to a panel discussion on

Fertility Regulation Behaviors and Their Costs
Contraception and Unintended Pregnancies in Africa and Eastern Europe & Central
Asia

Fertility levels have declined steadily over the last three decades but the pace
of decline varies among regions. Countries that have achieved a high level of
contraceptive use have reached a lower fertility level. A gap continues to exist
between actual and desired family size, resulting in unintended pregnancies.
More than one-third of the pregnancies that occur are unintended and one in five
pregnancies ends in induced abortion. Almost half of all induced abortions are
unsafe, and the proportion of all abortions that are unsafe has increased during
the last decade. Sixty-six percent of unintended pregnancies occur among women
who are not using any method of contraception.

Investing in quality family planning programs is a cost-effective way to address
unmet need for contraception and reduce the risks of unsafe abortion, thereby
improving maternal health. If contraception were provided to the 137 million
women who lack access, maternal mortality would decline by 25%?35%.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
3:00 - 4:30 pm
Auditorium J1-050
World Bank J Building
701 18th Street NW
Washington, DC

RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org
(please provide full name of all attendees and event name)

MODERATOR
Phillip Hay
Communications Adviser, Human Development Network, World Bank

PRESENTERS
Elizabeth Lule
Manager, AIDS Campaign Team for Africa (ACTafrica), World Bank

John May
Senior Population Specialist, Human Development Unit, Africa Region, World Bank

DISCUSSANTS
Michael Vlassof
Senior Research Associate, Guttmacher Institute

Maurice Middleberg (TBC)
Vice President, Public Policy for Global Health Council

Sarah Craven (TBC)
Chief, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Washington Office
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Fertility Regulation Behaviors and Their Costs" discussed on Wednesday, July 16 at 3:00 pm in J1-050

(Embedded image moved to file: pic03309.jpg) (Embedded image moved to file:
pic04693.jpg)

invite you to a panel discussion on
|---------------------+--------------------------------------------|
| | |
| | |
| | Fertility Regulation Behaviors and Their |
| | Costs |
| | Contraception and Unintended Pregnancies |
| (Embedded image | in Africa and |
| moved to file: | Eastern Europe & Central Asia |
| pic04686.jpg) | |
| | Fertility levels have declined steadily |
| | over the last three decades but the pace |
| | of decline varies among regions. |
| | Countries that have achieved a high |
| | level of contraceptive use have reached |
| | a lower fertility level. A gap continues |
| | to exist between actual and desired |
| | family size, resulting in unintended |
| | pregnancies. More than one-third of the |
| | pregnancies that occur are unintended |
| | and one in five pregnancies ends in |
| | induced abortion. Almost half of all |
| | induced abortions are unsafe, and the |
| | proportion of all abortions that are |
| | unsafe has increased during the last |
| | decade. Sixty-six percent of unintended |
| | pregnancies occur among women who are |
| | not using any method of contraception. |
| | |
| | Investing in quality family planning |
| | programs is a cost-effective way to |
| | address unmet need for contraception and |
| | reduce the risks of unsafe abortion, |
| | thereby improving maternal health. If |
| | contraception were provided to the 137 |
| | million women who lack access, maternal |
| | mortality would decline by 25%?35%. |
| | |
| | |
|---------------------+--------------------------------------------|

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
3:00 - 4:30 pm
Auditorium J1-050
World Bank J Building
701 18th Street NW
Washington, DC

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

MODERATOR
Phillip Hay
Communications Adviser, Human Development Network, World Bank

PRESENTERS
Elizabeth Lule
Manager, AIDS Campaign Team for Africa (ACTafrica), World Bank

John May
Senior Population Specialist, Human Development Unit, Africa Region,
World Bank

DISCUSSANTS
Michael Vlassof
Senior Research Associate, Guttmacher Institute

Maurice Middleberg (TBC)
Vice President, Public Policy for Global Health Council

Sarah Craven (TBC)
Chief, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Washington Office
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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