Film Screening: "As We Forgive" on May 8, 2008, Preston Auditorium, 12:00pm

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| | Thursday, May 8, 2008 |
| | 12:00 pm |
| | Preston Auditorium |
| | 1818 H Street NW |
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| | For non Bank staff, please RSVP |
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DISCUSSED BY FILMMAKER
Laura Waters Hinson
Ms. Hinson is the president of Image Bearer Pictures in Washington,
DC. As We Forgive, a finalist in the 2008 Student Academy Awards,
began as her masters thesis in filmmaking at American University
where she graduated with a MFA in 2007. She has worked as Director
of Creative Arts and Outreach at Church of the Resurrection, as a
development coordinator for the Discovery Health Channel, and as a
research assistant for MSNBC host Chris Matthews. Ms. Hinson also
shoots freelance photography and is currently forming a non-profit
to promote reconciliation projects in Rwanda.

WITH COMMENTS BY
Laura E. Bailey
Ms. Bailey is Senior Operations Specialist for the Fragile and
Conflict-Affected Countries Group of the World Bank. Her two decades
of experience in development is strongly grounded in field
operations in Africa, Asia, and Central America, including
experience in a range of post-conflict and transition settings,
working on behalf of international agencies, bilateral technical
assistance projects, and national and international NGOs.
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About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

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REMINDER: "Promoting Better Work in Global Supply Chains" on Friday, April 25 at 12:00 pm at the World Bank

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REMINDER: "Promoting Better Work in Global Supply Chains" on Friday, April 25 at 12:00 pm in J1-050

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Promoting Better Work in Global Supply Chains
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| | fresh look at old |
| | problems by offering |
| | sustainable solutions to |
| | the challenges of |
| | improving labour |
| | standards in global |
| | supply chains. The |
| | programme provides hope |
| | for a more inclusive |
| | globalisation that |
| | benefits all those |
| | involved with global |
| | supply chains. |
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| | The future rests with the |
| | collaboration of partners |
| | at the national level |
| | together with |
| | international buyers. |
| | Only through broad-based |
| | engagement can we find |
| | practical tools and |
| | solutions which are based |
| | on actual experience. We |
| | need to measure what we |
| | do, identify what works |
| | and what doesn?t. Through |
| | this process we will |
| | build support for change. |
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MODERATOR
Bruce Moats
Director of Corporate Relations, International Finance Corporations

PRESENTERS
Ros Harvey
Better Work Global Program Manager, ILO

COMMENTARY
Dotti Hatcher
Senior Director, Social Responsibility, Social & Community Investment, Gap Inc.

Friday, April 25, 2008
12:00 - 2:00 pm
World Bank J Building, J1-050
701 18th Street, NW
A reception will follow the presentation

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

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Partnership for Better Work
IFC in partnership with International Labour Organization (ILO)
launched the Better Work Program in August 2006 with the goal of
improving labor standards and competitiveness in global supply
chains. The program involves the development of both global tools
and country-level projects. It offers sustainable solutions that
build cooperation between government, employer and worker
organizations, and international buyers.
For more information, please visit: www.betterwork.org

About the International Labour Office (ILO)
The International Labour Office (ILO) is devoted to advancing
opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work
in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. Its
main aims are to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment
opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue in
handling work-related issues. In promoting social justice and
internationally recognized human and labour rights, the organization
continues to pursue its founding mission that labour peace is
essential to prosperity. Today, the ILO helps advance the creation
of decent jobs and the kinds of economic and working conditions that
give working people and business people a stake in lasting peace,
prosperity and progress.
For more information, please visit: www.ilo.org

About the International Finance Corporation (IFC)
The International Finance Corporation is a member of the World Bank
Group. IFC fosters sustainable economic growth in developing
countries by financing private sector investment, mobilizing capital
in the international financial markets, and providing advisory
services to businesses and governments. IFC helps companies and
financial institutions in emerging markets create jobs, generate tax
revenues, improve corporate governance and environmental
performance, and contribute to their local communities. The goal is
to improve lives, especially for the people who most need the
benefits of growth.
For more information, please visit: www.ifc.org

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

CHANGE OF VENUE "The Persistence of Poverty" launched on Monday, April 28 at 12:30pm in JB1-080

The World Bank Public Information Center and the Office of the Publisher

invite you to a presentation of an important Yale University Press publication
followed by a light lunch

The Persistence of Poverty
Why the Economics of the Well-Off Can't Help the Poor

In this important book, one of America's boldest and most original thinkers
charges that conventional explanations of poverty are mistaken, and that the
anti-poverty policies built upon them are doomed to fail. Using science,
history, fables, philosophical analysis, and common observation, Charles Karelis
engages us and takes us to a deeper grasp of the link between consumption and
satisfaction?and from there to a new explanation of what keeps poor people poor.
Above all, he shows how this fresh perspective can reinspire the campaign
against poverty.

Finalist for the 2007 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the Philosophy
category.

Monday, April 28, 2008
12:30 - 2:30 pm
World Bank J Building
Auditorium JB1-080
701 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC

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

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Charles Karelis
Research Professor of Philosophy, The George Washington University
Formerly Professor of Philosophy at Williams College, Director of the Fund for
the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, and President of Colgate University.
Mr. Karelis lives in Washington, D.C.

DISCUSSED BY
Steven Pearlstein
Business Columnist, The Washington Post and
2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner
Mr. Pearlstein, who has been a television news reporter and congressional
staffer, began his newspaper career with reporting jobs in New Hampshire at the
Concord Monitor and Foster's Daily Democrat. He also launched a monthly magazine
of liberal opinion, The Boston Observer. Mr. Pearlstein was recently awarded
the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his "insightful columns that explore the nation's
complex economic ills with masterful clarity".

Daniel Hardy
Division Chief, IMF Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Mr. Hardy has worked on economic policy issues in a wide range of
industrialized, emerging market, and developing countries. His current research
interests include the political economy of regulation, and the linkage between
innovation and stability in the financial sector.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

"Knowledge and Innovation for Competitiveness in Brazil" May 1, 2008 at 12:00

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| | Jamil Salmi |
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| | Brazil is the world?s largest |
| | exporter of coffee, sugar, cane-based |
| | ethanol, orange juice, and iron ore. |
| | Yet over the past 10 years, its |
| | economy has grown an average of only |
| | 2.5 percent per year. The question |
| | increasingly being asked is, How can |
| | Brazil improve its competitiveness in |
| | the global economy? |
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| | Knowledge and Innovation for |
| | Competitiveness in Brazil makes a |
| | compelling argument that, in a global |
| | economy that is increasingly |
| | knowledge driven, human capital is |
| | key to growth. The book supports this |
| | argument by mapping the relationship |
| | between microeconomic inputs, such as |
| | education services, and macroeconomic |
| | outputs, such as growth. It then goes |
| | on to recommend specific steps that |
| | can be taken to foster innovation and |
| | competitiveness. |
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| | For more information about the book |
| | or to order it online, please click |
| | here |
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
12:00 - 1:30 pm
World Bank J Building
Auditorium J1-050
701 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC

MODERATED BY
Bruno Laporte
Manager, WBI, World Bank

PRESENTED BY LEAD AUTHOR
Alberto Rodriguez
Lead Education Specialist, World Bank

DISCUSSED BY
Ariel Fiszbein
Chief Economist, Human Development Network

John Briscoe
Country Director, Brazil

Vinod Thomas
Director General, Independent Evaluation Group

Robin Horn
Education Sector Manager, Human Development Network
____________________________________________________________________________________________
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

CHANGE OF VENUE AND ADDITIONAL PANELIST "The Persistence of Poverty" launched on Monday, April 28 at 12:30pm in JB1-080

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invite you to a presentation of an important Yale University Press
publication
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| | |
| | In this important book, one of America's |
| | boldest and most original thinkers |
| | charges that conventional explanations of |
| | poverty are mistaken, and that the |
| | anti-poverty policies built upon them are |
| | doomed to fail. Using science, history, |
| | fables, philosophical analysis, and |
| | common observation, Charles Karelis |
| | engages us and takes us to a deeper grasp |
| | of the link between consumption and |
| | satisfaction?and from there to a new |
| | explanation of what keeps poor people |
| | poor. Above all, he shows how this fresh |
| | perspective can reinspire the campaign |
| | against poverty. |
| | |
| | Finalist for the 2007 ForeWord Magazine |
| | Book of the Year Award in the Philosophy |
| | category. |
| | |
| | For more information about the book or to |
| | order it online, please click here. |
| | |
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*PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE*

Monday, April 28, 2008
12:30 - 2:30 pm
World Bank J Building
Auditorium JB1-080
701 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC

A light lunch and book signing will follow the presentation

CHAIRED BY
Deepa Narayan
Senior Adviser, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World
Bank
Ms. Narayan has over 25 years development experience in Asia and
Africa and has worked for NGOs, national governments and the UN
system. Her areas of expertise include participatory development
and research, community-driven development, and social capital, and
using these concepts to create wealth for the poor.

PRESENTED BY AUTHOR
Charles Karelis
Research Professor of Philosophy, The George Washington University
Formerly Professor of Philosophy at Williams College, Director of
the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, and
President of Colgate University. Mr. Karelis lives in Washington,
D.C.

DISCUSSED BY
Steven Pearlstein
Business Columnist, The Washington Post and
2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner
Mr. Pearlstein, who has been a television news reporter and
congressional staffer, began his newspaper career with reporting
jobs in New Hampshire at the Concord Monitor and Foster's Daily
Democrat. He also launched a monthly magazine of liberal opinion,
The Boston Observer. Mr. Pearlstein was recently awarded the 2008
Pulitzer Prize for his "insightful columns that explore the nation's
complex economic ills with masterful clarity".

Daniel Hardy
Division Chief, IMF Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Mr. Hardy has worked on economic policy issues in a wide range of
industrialized, emerging market, and developing countries. His
current research interests include the political economy of
regulation, and the linkage between innovation and stability in the
financial sector.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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

World Malaria Day April 24, 2008 - Live Concert with Youssou N'Dour - 2:00 pm, MC Atrium

PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME: 2:00 PM

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