"China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities" discussed on Wednesday, October 29 at 3:00 PM in JB1-080

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PRESENTING AUTHORS
C. Fred Bergsten
Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Mr. Bergsten has been director of the Peterson Institute for
International Economics since its creation in 1981. He has been the
most widely quoted think tank economist in the world over the
eight-year period 1997?2005. He was ranked in the top 50 ?Who Really
Moves the Markets?? by Fidelity Investment?s Worth, and as ?one of
the ten people who can change your life? in USA Today. He is
cochairman of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the United
States-India Trade Policy Forum. Mr. Bergsten was assistant
secretary for international affairs of the US Treasury (1977?81). He
also functioned as undersecretary for monetary affairs (1980?81),
representing the United States on the G-5 Deputies and in preparing
G-7 summits. Mr. Bergsten coordinated US foreign economic policy in
the White House as assistant for international economic affairs
(1969?71) to Dr. Henry Kissinger at the National Security Council.
Mr. Bergsten has authored, coauthored, or edited 38 books on
international economic issues.

Charles Freeman
Chairholder, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS
Previous to CSIS, Mr. Freeman served as managing director of the
China Alliance. He also served as assistant US trade representative
(USTR) for China affairs (2002?05). During his tenure as assistant
USTR, he oversaw US efforts to integrate China into the global
trading architecture of the World Trade Organization. He also
negotiated and solved trade problems across a wide range of issues,
including intellectual property rights protection; financial and
nonfinancial services; tax, industrial standards, and technology
policies; and agricultural market access. Mr. Freeman served as
international affairs counsel to Senator Frank Murkowski (1999?02).

Nicholas Lardy
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Mr. Lardy joined the Peterson Institute in March 2003 from the
Brookings Institution, where he was a senior fellow in the Foreign
Policy Studies Program (1995?03) and served as interim director of
Foreign Policy Studies (2001). Mr. Lardy is the author, coauthor, or
codeditor of Debating China?s Exchange Rate Policy (2008), China The
Balance Sheet (2006), Prospects for a US-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement
(2004), Integrating China into the Global Economy (2002), and
China?s Unfinished Economic Revolution (1998). Mr. Lardy is a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the
editorial boards of the China Quarterly, Journal of Asian Business,
China Review, and China Economic Review.

Derek Mitchell
Senior Fellow and Director for Asia, CSIS International Security
Program
Mr. Mitchell was special assistant for Asian and Pacific affairs in
the Office of the Secretary of Defense (1997?01) where he was the
principal author of the Department of Defense 1998 East Asia
Strategy Report. He served as senior program officer for Asia and
the former Soviet Union at the National Democratic Institute for
International Affairs in Washington, D.C. Mr. Mitchell worked as an
editor and reporter at the China Post on Taiwan (1989). He served as
assistant to the senior foreign policy adviser to Senator Edward M.
Kennedy (1986?88). He is the coauthor of China the Balance Sheet
(2006) and coeditor of China and the Developing World: Beijing?s
Strategy for the 21st Century (2007).

MODERATOR
Danny Leipziger
Vice President and Head, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management
Network (PREM)
Mr. Leipziger heads PREM, a network of more than 700 economists and
other professionals working on economic policy, lending, and
analytic work for the World Bank?s client countries. In this
capacity, he provides strategic leadership and direction to Regional
PREM units as well as groups working on economic policy formulation
in the area of growth and poverty, debt, trade, gender, and public
sector management and governance. He is heavily involved in
positioning the World Bank on major economic policy issues and in
managing the Bank?s overall interactions on these issues with key
partner institutions?including the IMF, OECD, regional development
banks and the European Union. He works closely with Regional Vice
Presidents on leading edge and cross-country economic matters.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

"China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities" discussed on Wednesday, October 29 at 3:00 PM in JB1-080

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PRESENTING AUTHORS
C. Fred Bergsten
Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics:
Mr. Bergsten has been director of the Peterson Institute for
International Economics since its creation in 1981. He has been the
most widely quoted think tank economist in the world over the
eight-year period 1997?2005. He was ranked in the top 50 ?Who Really
Moves the Markets?? by Fidelity Investment?s Worth, and as ?one of
the ten people who can change your life? in USA Today. He is
cochairman of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the United
States-India Trade Policy Forum. Mr. Bergsten was assistant
secretary for international affairs of the US Treasury (1977?81). He
also functioned as undersecretary for monetary affairs (1980?81),
representing the United States on the G-5 Deputies and in preparing
G-7 summits. Mr. Bergsten coordinated US foreign economic policy in
the White House as assistant for international economic affairs
(1969?71) to Dr. Henry Kissinger at the National Security Council.
Mr. Bergsten has authored, coauthored, or edited 38 books on
international economic issues.

Charles Freeman
Chairholder, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS
Previous to CSIS, Mr. Freeman served as managing director of the
China Alliance. He also served as assistant US trade representative
(USTR) for China affairs (2002?05). During his tenure as assistant
USTR, he oversaw US efforts to integrate China into the global
trading architecture of the World Trade Organization. He also
negotiated and solved trade problems across a wide range of issues,
including intellectual property rights protection; financial and
nonfinancial services; tax, industrial standards, and technology
policies; and agricultural market access. Mr. Freeman served as
international affairs counsel to Senator Frank Murkowski (1999?02).

Nicholas Lardy
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Mr. Lardy joined the Peterson Institute in March 2003 from the
Brookings Institution, where he was a senior fellow in the Foreign
Policy Studies Program (1995?03) and served as interim director of
Foreign Policy Studies (2001). Mr. Lardy is the author, coauthor, or
codeditor of Debating China?s Exchange Rate Policy (2008), China The
Balance Sheet (2006), Prospects for a US-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement
(2004), Integrating China into the Global Economy (2002), and
China?s Unfinished Economic Revolution (1998). Mr. Lardy is a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the
editorial boards of the China Quarterly, Journal of Asian Business,
China Review, and China Economic Review.

Derek Mitchell
Senior Fellow and Director for Asia, CSIS International Security
Program
Mr. Mitchell was special assistant for Asian and Pacific affairs in
the Office of the Secretary of Defense (1997?01) where he was the
principal author of the Department of Defense 1998 East Asia
Strategy Report. He served as senior program officer for Asia and
the former Soviet Union at the National Democratic Institute for
International Affairs in Washington, D.C. Mr. Mitchell worked as an
editor and reporter at the China Post on Taiwan (1989). He served as
assistant to the senior foreign policy adviser to Senator Edward M.
Kennedy (1986?88). He is the coauthor of China the Balance Sheet
(2006) and coeditor of China and the Developing World: Beijing?s
Strategy for the 21st Century (2007).

MODERATOR
Danny Leipziger
Vice President and Head, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management
Network (PREM)
Mr. Leipziger heads PREM, a network of more than 700 economists and
other professionals working on economic policy, lending, and
analytic work for the World Bank?s client countries. In this
capacity, he provides strategic leadership and direction to Regional
PREM units as well as groups working on economic policy formulation
in the area of growth and poverty, debt, trade, gender, and public
sector management and governance. He is heavily involved in
positioning the World Bank on major economic policy issues and in
managing the Bank?s overall interactions on these issues with key
partner institutions?including the IMF, OECD, regional development
banks and the European Union. He works closely with Regional Vice
Presidents on leading edge and cross-country economic matters.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

SPECIAL EVENT "Domestic Violence Panel: What You May Not Know" October 29th, 2008 12-2 PM in J1-050

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The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and Inter-American Development Bank

"Partnering to Prevent Domestic Abuse"
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| | Panel Discussion: What You May |
| | Not Know |
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| (Embedded image moved to | In recognition of October's |
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| | , the Human Resources Global |
| | Mobility (HRSGM) invites you to a |
| Wednesday, October 29, | panel discussion sponsored by The |
| 2008 | World Bank, International |
| 12:00 - 2:00 PM | Monetary Fund, and Inter-American |
| | Development Bank. Madeleine K. |
| Coffee and Cookies | Albright, former U.S. Secretary |
| Served | of State, successfully launched |
| | the month with a keynote address |
| Auditorium J1-050 | at the World Bank on October 1, |
| World Bank J Building | 2008. |
| 701 18th Street, NW | |
| Washington, DC | As a follow up to this series, |
| | please join a distinguished group |
| | of experts for a panel discussion |
| | entitled, "What You May Not |
| | Know." We have all heard someone |
| | say, "That does not happen in MY |
| | community!" In fact, domestic |
| | violence exists in all |
| | communities regardless of race, |
| | age, socioeconomic status, |
| | national origin, gender, religion |
| | or educational background. It |
| | impacts all of us, to a |
| | surprising degree. In our |
| | international organizations, |
| | several factors, such as language |
| | skills, cultural traditions, |
| | legal status, and lack of |
| | information, are barriers to |
| | seeking help. Please join us at |
| | this event and learn what |
| | domestic abuse is, how it affects |
| | families, and basic legal options |
| | for addressing it. Panelists will |
| | also address the unique |
| | challenges faced by staff and |
| | family members from international |
| | organizations. |
| | |
| | |
| | For more information, visit: |
| | Global Mobility website |
| | |
| | |
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OPENING REMARKS
Aulikki H. Kuusela
Director, Human Resources Operations, World Bank
Ms. Kuusela currently holds the position of Director, Human
Resources (HR) Operations, and is responsible for HR services,
recruitment and Global Mobility services. Previously, Ms. Kuusela
held HR management positions in ECA, MENA and AFR regions. Prior to
joining the World Bank, Ms. Kuusela worked in development
cooperation in the field for bilateral and multilateral agencies.

PANELISTS
Helen Hall
Victim Advocate, Washington, D.C. DV Police Unit
Ms. Helen Hall is a Victim Services Advocate for the Metropolitan
Police Department (MPD) in Washington D.C. She has over 30 years of
experience in community advocacy in domestic violence and sexual
assault. A former victim, now survivor, Ms. Hall has studied human
behavior in various higher learning institutions and has a strong
passion to eliminate DA through community education and awareness.
She has worked as a consultant to organizations such as the World
Bank, Court Services & Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) and the
DC TANF Program.

Patricia Romano McGraw
Forensic Psychologist and Author
Dr. Patricia Romano McGraw is a clinical forensic psychologist with
a specialty in women?s issues and trauma. She has been treating
victims of domestic violence for over twenty years and frequently
testifies in court regarding interpersonal violence and its effects.
She is in private practice in Baltimore, MD and author of It?s Not
Your Fault: How Healing Relationships Change Your Brain and Can
Help You Overcome a Painful Past.

Joan Meier
Executive Director, Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals
Project
Ms. Meier is the Founder and Executive Director of the Domestic
Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project (DV LEAP) and
Professor of Clinical Law at George Washington University Law
School. DV LEAP provides consulting services to the World Bank, IMF
and IADB. Over the past 20 years, Ms. Meier has litigated hundreds
of domestic violence cases at both the trial and appellate court
levels and has engaged in numerous national and local domestic
violence advocacy efforts. She regularly consults for numerous
organizations, including the Department of Justice and American Bar
Association, and delivers trainings and workshops for lawyers,
judges, advocates, and mental health professionals. She has served
on the Mayor?s Commission on Violence against Women and several
other boards and commissions addressing DV. Ms. Meier was a
featured commentator on a recent 20/20 broadcast regarding the
highly publicized Alec Baldwin story and in the PBS documentary,
Breaking the Silence: Children?s Stories, which aired in fall 2005.

Patricia Hoff
Legal Consultant, Interstate and International Child Custody and
Parental Kidnapping
Ms. Hoff is an attorney and legal consultant in the field of
interstate and international child custody and parental kidnapping.
She was legal director of the Obstacles to the Recovery and Return
of Parentally Abducted Children projects at the American Bar
Association?s Center on Children and the Law (?ABA?), and
co-authored the final reports. In additiion, she was an advisor to
the committee that drafted the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction
and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA), and participated, as an observer, in
drafting the Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act (UCAPA).

MODERATOR
Phillip Hay
Communications Advisor, 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.

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About the Human Resources Global Mobility (HRSGM)
HRSGM provides relocation support services, including overseas
assignment briefings, education, child care, housing, spouse/partner
career, and domestic abuse prevention guidance to the staff of the
World Bank Group and Inter-American Development Bank. Additionally,
they extend Domestic Abuse Prevention services to the staff and
families of the IMF. HRSGM also provides educational outreach
programs and information on domestic abuse prevention.
For more information, visit:Global Mobility website
Contact us at globalmobility@worldbank.org or by phone at (202)
473-2445.

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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

Y2Y Global Youth Conference 2008 on Thursday, October 23 in Preston Auditorium

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This year's conference ? Empowering a Generation: Developing Skills and
Capacities in Youth ? emphasizes the urgency to focus on and invest in the
needs of young people the world over. A holistic approach to youth
development is necessary to address the growing educational and employment
needs of youth. This year's conference aims to highlight the importance of
this approach by promoting a dialogue among various stakeholders on how to
equip youth with the adequate tools and competencies that will enable them
to earn a dignified livelihood while positively impacting their communities.

The conference will convene practitioners, experts, academia and
organizations from around the world and facilitate the exchange of lessons
learned, formulation of new ideas and models, and the creation of symbiotic
relationships with the common goal of empowering the world's youth. The
conference sessions will feature organizations from Asia, Africa, Europe,
the Americas, and the Middle East. Representatives from these organizations
will present their key projects and engage in discussions on the challenges,
constraints and successes experienced during the implementation and
evaluation of their work.

Registration is only open for Bank staff who can attend the full program.
Staff who are not able to commit all day are welcome to stop by the Preston
auditorium for individual sessions, if space is available.

Conference registration is free. For registration, agenda and more details
visit: www.worldbank.org/y2ycommunity
Email youthcommunity@worldbank.org if you have specific questions.
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| | striving to be young leaders for change. Y2Y's |
| | mission is to engage and empower youth in development |
| | to impact efforts to achieve a world free of poverty. |
| | |
| | The conference is one of Y2Y's main products and is |
| | organized by an enthusiastic group of Y2Y volunteers. |
| | In previous years, the conference has attracted |
| | audiences of more than 300 individuals from around |
| | the world. The conference is part of the United |
| | Nations Week celebrations. Every year, UNA-NCA |
| | (United Nations Association of the National Capital |
| | Area) commemorates the day the Charter of the United |
| | Nations went into effect (October 24 th , 1945) by |
| | organizing a program of events with several partners |
| | in the capitol area. Y2Y is proud to collaborate with |
| | UNA-NCA and host the Global Youth Conference as part |
| | of these events. |
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| (Embedded image | The InfoShop is the public information center of |
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| pic31418.jpg) | 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, |
| | Senator Hagel, and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop |
| | functions as the only publicly accessible space at |
| | headquarters and provides internal and external |
| | audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the |
| | World Bank, international organizations, and other |
| | publishers on development issues. |
| | For more information, visit |
| | www.worldbank.org/infoshop |
| | For comments about the events program, visit |
| | InfoShop. |
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REMINDER: "Can Russia Compete" launched on Wednesday, October 15 at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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PRESENTING EDITORS
Raj Desai
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and
Associate Professor of International Development, Georgetown
University School of Foreign Service
For the past eight years, Mr. Desai has taught courses on
comparative and international political economy at Georgetown
University. His work focuses on problems of economic reform,
poverty, and international development. Previously, Mr. Desai was a
member of the core team for the World Bank's World Development
Report team in 2003-2004. From 1996 to 1999, he was as a private
sector development specialist at the World Bank, where he worked on
the privatization and restructuring of public enterprises in Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union, and on the recovery of financial
systems following economic crises in East Asia and Latin America.

Itzhak Goldberg
Policy and Strategy Advisor, Private and Financial Sector Unit,
Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank
Mr. Goldberg has been with the World Bank since 1990, mostly in the
ECA region in different departments. He joined the Private and
Financial Sector Unit of ECA in 1997. He has been in charge of
private sector development programs in various countries in the
region (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Romania, Turkmenistanand Uzbekistan)
and he was pivotal in the design and implementation of the
Privatization Program of the Government of Serbia.

DISCUSSANTS
Mark Dutz
Senior Economist, Private and Financial Sector Unit, South Asia
Region, World Bank
Mr. Dutz works in the World Bank?s South Asia Poverty Reduction,
Economic Management, Finance and Private Sector Development
Department. His responsibilities include helping partner governments
spur competition, entrepreneurship and competitiveness, enhance the
environment for technology development and innovation, enable access
to finance and other essential business services, and more broadly
assist in facilitating productivity growth and job creation. As part
of recent work on India, he is lead author and editor of the book
Unleashing India?s Innovation: Toward Sustainable and Inclusive
Growth(2007). Mr. Dutz previously worked as Sr. Advisor to the State
Minister of Economy on competitiveness and infrastructure issues in
Ankara, Turkey; and in the Office of the Chief Economist, EBRD.

Anders Åslund
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Mr. Åslund has been a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute since
2006. He is also an adjunct professor at GeorgetownUniversity. He
examines the economies of Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, as
well as focuses on the broader implications of economic transition.
He worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from
1994 to 2005, first as a senior associate and then from 2003 as
director of the Russian and Eurasian Program. He also worked at the
Brookings Institution and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian
Studies. Mr. Åslund served as an economic adviser to the governments
of Russia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan. He is the author of eight books,
including Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform
Succeeded and Democracy Failed (2007) and How Capitalism Was Built:
The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and
Central Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

MODERATOR
Fernando Montes-Negret
Director, Private and Financial Sector Unit, Europe and Central
Asia, World Bank
Mr. Montes-Negret, a Colombian national, is the Sector Director of
ECSPF in charge of defining and implementing the Bank?s strategy for
the development of the financial and private sectors of the client
countries in the ECA Region. Mr. Montes-Negret joined the Bank in
October 1984 as an Economist in the Latin America and Caribbean's
Industrial Development and Finance Division 2, working in Chile
(during the 1984-85 banking crisis), Costa Rica and Argentina. After
a three-year break in service, serving as Deputy Governor of the
Banco de la Republica (Colombia?s Central Bank), he returned to the
Bank in June 1989 and held various positions as Sr.
Economist--working in the East Asia Region (as Country Economist for
China), Europe and Central Asia Region and the Financial Sector
Development Department.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________?
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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER: "Can Russia Compete" launched on Wednesday, October 15 at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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Coffee and cookies will be served

PRESENTING EDITORS
Raj Desai
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and
Associate Professor of International Development,
GeorgetownUniversitySchoolof Foreign Service
For the past eight years, Mr. Desai has taught courses on
comparative and international political economy at Georgetown
University. His work focuses on problems of economic reform,
poverty, and international development. Previously, Mr. Desai was a
member of the core team for the World Bank's World Development
Report team in 2003-2004. From 1996 to 1999, he was as a private
sector development specialist at the World Bank, where he worked on
the privatization and restructuring of public enterprises in Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union, and on the recovery of financial
systems following economic crises in East Asia and Latin America.

Itzhak Goldberg
Policy and Strategy Advisor, Private and Financial Sector Unit,
Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank
Mr. Goldberg has been with the World Bank since 1990, mostly in the
ECA region in different departments. He joined the Private and
Financial Sector Unit of ECA in 1997. He has been in charge of
private sector development programs in various countries in the
region (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Romania, Turkmenistanand Uzbekistan)
and he was pivotal in the design and implementation of the
Privatization Program of the Government of Serbia.

DISCUSSANTS
Mark Dutz
Senior Economist, Private and Financial Sector Unit, South Asia
Region, World Bank
Mr. Dutz works in the World Bank?s South Asia Poverty Reduction,
Economic Management, Finance and Private Sector Development
Department. His responsibilities include helping partner governments
spur competition, entrepreneurship and competitiveness, enhance the
environment for technology development and innovation, enable access
to finance and other essential business services, and more broadly
assist in facilitating productivity growth and job creation. As part
of recent work on India, he is lead author and editor of the book
Unleashing India?s Innovation: Toward Sustainable and Inclusive
Growth(2007). Mr. Dutz previously worked as Sr. Advisor to the State
Minister of Economy on competitiveness and infrastructure issues in
Ankara, Turkey; and in the Office of the Chief Economist, EBRD.

Anders Åslund
Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Mr. Åslund has been a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute since
2006. He is also an adjunct professor at GeorgetownUniversity. He
examines the economies of Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, as
well as focuses on the broader implications of economic transition.
He worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from
1994 to 2005, first as a senior associate and then from 2003 as
director of the Russian and Eurasian Program. He also worked at the
Brookings Institution and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian
Studies. Mr. Åslund served as an economic adviser to the governments
of Russia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan. He is the author of eight books,
including Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform
Succeeded and Democracy Failed (2007) and How Capitalism Was Built:
The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and
Central Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

MODERATOR
Fernando Montes-Negret
Director, Private and Financial Sector Unit, Europe and Central
Asia, World Bank
Mr. Montes-Negret, a Colombian national, is the Sector Director of
ECSPF in charge of defining and implementing the Bank?s strategy for
the development of the financial and private sectors of the client
countries in the ECA Region. Mr. Montes-Negret joined the Bank in
October 1984 as an Economist in the Latin America and Caribbean's
Industrial Development and Finance Division 2, working in Chile
(during the 1984-85 banking crisis), Costa Rica and Argentina. After
a three-year break in service, serving as Deputy Governor of the
Banco de la Republica (Colombia?s Central Bank), he returned to the
Bank in June 1989 and held various positions as Sr.
Economist--working in the East Asia Region (as Country Economist for
China), Europe and Central Asia Region and the Financial Sector
Development Department.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________?
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, Senator Hagel,
and Carly Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly
accessible space at headquarters and provides internal and external
audiences with over 10,000 titles published by the World Bank,
international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.
For more information, visit www.worldbank.org/infoshop
For comments about the events program, visit InfoShop.

REMINDER - "For Protection & Promotion: The Design and Implementation of Effective Safety Nets" discussed on Wednesday, October 8 at 12:00 pm in I2-250

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& Human Development

INVITE YOU TO A LAUNCH OF A NEW WORLD BANK PUBLICATION
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| to file: pic27384.jpg) | The Design and Implementation of |
| | Effective Safety Nets |
| | |
| | Margaret E. Grosh , Carlo Del |
| | Ninno , Emil Tesliuc , and Azedine |
| | Ouerghi |
| | |
| | The role of safety nets in |
| | reducing poverty and vulnerability |
| | is increasingly recognized in |
| | social policy. As non-contributory |
| | transfer programs targeted to the |
| | poor or vulnerable, well designed |
| | safety nets can play a productive |
| | role in promoting development, as |
| | well as redistributing wealth to |
| | the most vulnerable. Drawing on |
| | the international literature and |
| | operational documents from the |
| | World Bank's experience in over |
| | 100 countries, this book provides |
| | comprehensive guidance on the |
| | design and implementation of |
| | cost-effective safety nets, |
| | including how to define |
| | eligibility and select |
| | beneficiaries, set and pay |
| | benefits, and monitor and evaluate |
| | programs and systems. Marking the |
| | first major World Bank publication |
| | on the topic in over ten years, |
| | the book synthesizes the |
| | literature to date and enriches it |
| | with new examples on various |
| | program options?cash transfers |
| | (conditional and unconditional), |
| | in-kind transfers, price |
| | subsidies, fee waivers, and public |
| | works. It concludes with a |
| | comprehensive diagnostic for |
| | fitting safety net systems and |
| | programs to specific |
| | circumstances. |
| | |
| | For more information or to buy the |
| | book, please click here |
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 PM
World Bank I Building
Auditorium I2-250

Lunch will be served at 1:30 PM

OPENING REMARKS BY
Shanta Devarajan
Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank:

MODERATED BY
Robert Holzmann,
Director, Social Protection & Labor Department, Human Development
Network, World Bank

PRESENTED BY
Margaret Grosh
Lead Economist, Social Protection Department, Human Development Network, World
Bank

COMMENTS BY
H.E. Ato Mekonnen MANYAZEWAL.
State Minister, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Ethiopia

Diego Molano Aponte
Former Directorof Social Policy of the Presidential Agency for Social Action and
International Cooperation, Colombia

Rakesh Nangia
Operations Director, World Bank Institute, World Bank
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