Friday, September 26, 2008

"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 RECENT WORLD BANK PUBLICATION
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| | Effective Safety Nets |
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| | Margaret E. Grosh , Carlo Del |
| | Ninno , Emil Tesliuc , and Azedine |
| | Ouerghi |
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| | 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 Mnayazewal
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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Thursday, September 25, 2008

What's New at the InfoShop, September 2008

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Come and visit the InfoShop. There is always something new. The titles below
have just been added to our collection.


World Bank Staff receive 30% discount on World Bank titles, and 10% discount on
externally published titles.


Click on the drop down for more information and a list of titles.

Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2008, Regional: Higher
Education and Development
Edited by Boris Pleskovic , Justin Yifu Lin


At the Crossroads : Choices for Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Edited by Adriaan M. Verspoor


Environmental Sustainability: An Evaluation of World Bank Group
by World Bank


Equality for Women : Where Do We Stand?
Edited by Mayra Buvinic , Andrew R. Morrison , Mirja Sjoblom , A. Waafas
Ofosu-Amaah


For Protection and Promotion: The Design and Implementation of Effective Safety
Nets
by Margaret E. Grosh , Carlo Del Ninno , Emil Tesliuc , Azedine Ouerghi


Getting Finance in South Asia 2009: Indicators and Analysis of the Commercial
Banking Sector
by Kiatchai Sophastienphong , Anoma Kulathunga


Intégration mondiale de la Tunisie: Une nouvelle génération de réformes pour
booster la croissance et l'emploi
by World Bank


Legislative Oversight and Government Accountability
Edited by Rick Stapenhurst , Riccardo Pelizzo , David Olson , Lisa von Trapp


South Asian Bond Markets: Developing Long-Term Finance for Growth
by Kiatchai Sophastienphong , Yibin Mu , Carlotta Saporito

2008 State of the Future
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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
by Alan Greenspan  NEW IN PAPERBACK!


America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy
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The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008
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The Development Reader
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National Development Strategies: Policy Notes
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The Process of Economic Development, 3/e
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The Credit Crunch: Housing Bubbles, Globalization and the Worldwide Economic
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by Willem Molle


Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System, 2/e
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Money, Interest, and Policy: Dynamic General Equilibrium in a Non-Ricardian
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by Jean-Pascal Benassy  NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Morals and Markets: An Evolutionary Account of the Modern World
by Daniel Friedman


Supercapitalism: The Transfromation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
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Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society
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The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected
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by Amar Bhide

The Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies
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Claiming the Millennium Development Goals: A Human Rights Approach
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Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy
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A Year Without "Made in China": One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global
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by Sara Bongiorni

Asia's Banking CEOs: The Future of Finance in Asia
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Asset Prices and Monetary Policy
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Bear Trap: The Fall of Bear Stearns and the Panic of 2008
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An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets
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Financial Markets and Risk
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The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Lifetime of Comebacks and
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by T. Boone Pickens


Mean Markets and Lizard Brains: How to Profit from the New Science of
Irrationality
by Terry Burnham


The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy
by David M. Smick

Interpersonal Networks in Organizations: Cognition, Personality, Dynamics, and
Culture
by Mark Kilduff , David Krackhardt


Managing Strategic Surprise: Lessons from Risk Management and Risk Assessment
Edited by David Gordon , Paul Bracken , Ian Bremmer

The Global Commonwealth of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy
by Daniele Archibugi


On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society
by Andrew Hurrell


The Private Abuse of the Public Interest: Market Myths and Policy Muddles
by Lawrence D. Brown , Lawrence R. Jacobs


Towards Inclusive Governance: Promoting the Participation of Disadvantaged
Groups in Asia-Pacific, w/CD-ROM
by United Nations Development Programme

Courting Social Justice: Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights in
the Developing World
Edited by Varun Gauri , Daniel M. Brinks


The Economic Approach to Law, 2/e
by Thomas J. Miceli


The Economic Structure of International Law
by Joel P. Trachtman


How International Law Works: A Rational Choice Theory
by Andrew T. Guzman


International Law
by Vaughan Lowe


The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization: Text, Cases and Materials,
2/e
by Peter Van den Bossche


The Oxford Handbook of International Investment Law
Edited by Federico Ortino , Peter Muchlinski , Christoph Schreuer


Transnational Commercial Law: Primary Materials
by Roy Goode , Herbert Kronke , Ewan McKendrick , Jeffrey Wool

Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works
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The Transformation of Agri-Food Systems: Globalization, Supply Chains and
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Making Poverty: A History
by Thomas Lines

Free Trade Research Areas that Matter to Developing Country Policymakers: A
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by Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific


Trade and Development Report, 2008: Commodity Prices, Capital Flows and the
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UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2008
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The World Trade Organization: Law, Economics, Policies
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Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy, 2/e
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The Clean Tech Revolution: Discover the Top Trends, Technologies, and Companies
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The Final Energy Crisis, 2/e
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The Plan: How to Rescue Society When the Oil Stops - or the Day Before
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Climate Change in Asia: Perspectives on the Future Climate Regime
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Global Environmental History
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Global Environmental Institutions
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The ISIS Agreement: How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance
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by Alan AtKisson


Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse
by Oliver Tickell


The Principles of Sustainability, 2/e
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The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment
by Peter Dauvergne


Understanding Sustainability Economics: Towards Pluralism in Economics
by Peter Soderbaum


Understanding Sustainable Development
by John Blewitt

Unimagined Community: Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa
by Robert J. Thornton


Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine
by Gary Paul Nabhan

Cities: A Groundwork Guide
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The Community Planning Event Manual: How to Use Collaborative Planning and Urban
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by Nick Wates


The New Global Frontier: Urbanization, Poverty and Environment in the 21st
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Edited by Gordon McGranahan , George Martine , Mark Montgomery , Rogelio
Fernandez-Castilla


Positive Development: From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles Through Built
Environment Design
by Janis Birkeland

Are Worker Rights Human Rights?
by Richard P. McIntyre


Labour Markets in Small Developing States
Edited by Andrew S. Downes

Big Business andEconomic Development: Conglomerates and Economic Groups in
Developing Countries and Transition Economies under Globalisation
Edited by Alex E. Fernandez Jilberto , Barbara Hogenboom

Development, Democracy, and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and
Eastern Europe
by Stephan Haggard , Robert R. Kaufman


Global Tax Revolution: The Rise of Tax Competition and the Battle to Defend It
by Chris Edwards , Daniel J. Mitchell


Governance in the Middle East, North Africa and Western Balkans: Challenges and
Priorities in Reforming Public Administration in the Mediterranean Region
by Economic and Social Affairs


Public Investment and Public-Private Partnerships: Addressing Infrastructure
Challenges and Managing Financial Risks
Edited by Gerd Schwartz , Ana Corbacho , Katja Funke

Information and Communication Technologies for the Public Service: A Small
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Edited by Devindra Ramnarine , RoseMarie-Rita Endeley

The Law of International Watercourses, 2/e
by Stephen C. McCaffrey


Regulating Water and Sanitation for the Poor: Economic Regulation for Public and
Private Partnerships
Edited by Richard Franceys , Esther Gerlach:


Water: The Causes, Costs and Future of a Global Crisis
by Julian Caldecott


Water Consciousness: How We All Have to Change to Protect Our Most Critical
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Edited by Tara Lohan

Africa and the Third Millennium
Edited by George Klay Kieh, Jr.


Africa and the World Trading System, Volume 1: Selected Issues of the Doha
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Edited by Ademola Oyejide , William Lyakurwa:


Africa and the World Trading System, Volume 2: Country Case Studies
Edited by Dominique Njinkeu , Ademola Oyejide


Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
by Tim Butcher


The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
by Helene Cooper


Poverty, Livelihoods, and Governance in Africa: Fulfilling the Development
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by Kempe Ronald Sr. Hope


Shell Petroleum Development Company, the State and Underdevelopment of Nigeria's
Niger Delta: A Study in Environmental Degradation
by Daniel A. Omoweh


Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
by Halima Bashir

Angels of a Lower Flight: One Woman's Mission to Save a Country...One Child at a
Time
by Susie Scott Krabacher


Brother, I'm Dying
by Edwidge Danticat


Radical Democracy in the Andes.
by Donna Lee Van Cott


Trading with the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba
by Tom Miller

The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War
by Asne Seierstad


Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds, Newly Revised and Expanded
by Stephen Kinzer


Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know
by Tim Judah

The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran
by Hooman Majd


The Case Against Israel's Enemies: Exposing Jimmy Carter and Others Who Stand in
the Way of Peace
by Alan Dershowitz


Contemporary Israel: Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy, and Security Challenges
Edited by Robert O. Freedman


Danger and Opportunity: An American Ambassador's Journey Through the Middle East

by Edward P. Djerejian


Elvis Is Titanic: Classroom Tales form Iraqi Kurdistan
by Ian Klaus


Israel: A History
by Martin Gilbert


The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
by John J. Mearscheimer , Stephen M. Walt  NEW IN PAPERBACK!


Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace
by Avi Shlaim:


The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U. S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to
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by Lloyd C. Gardner


Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen?
by Lisa Wedeen


Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq
by Farnaz Fassihi

Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State
by Yasheng Huang


Challenging China: Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change
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China Modernizes: Threat to the West or Model for the Rest?
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China Since Tiananmen, 2/e
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China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities
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Crisis as Catalyst: Asia's Dynamic Political Economy
Edited by John Ravenhill , T. J. Pempel , Andrew MacIntyre


Doing Business in China
by Jihong Sanderson


Good Guanxi: Managing Government Relations in China
by Elizabeth Judd


Japan Since 1980
by Thomas F. Cargill , Takayuki Sakamoto


The Last Men: Journey Among the Tribes of New Guinea
by Jago Corazza


The Pan-Pearl River Delta: An Emerging Regional Economy in a Globalizing China
Edited by Y. M. Yeung , Shen Jianfa


Providing Public Goods in Transitional China
by Tony Saich


Rising China and Asian Democratization: Socialization to "Global Culture" in the
Political Transformations of Thailand, China, and Taiwan
by Daniel C. Lynch


The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
by Somaly Mam


Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China's Territorial
Disputes
by M. Taylor Fravel


Under the Dragon: A Journey Through Burma
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The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power
by Tariq Ali


India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
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Dream Kingdom: New and Selected Poems
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The Farming of Bones


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The Most Fantastic Atlas of the Whole Wide World
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Obama: A Promise of Change
by David Mendell


Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
by Ji-Li Jiang


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Monday, September 22, 2008

REMINDER - Daniel Kahneman (Nobel Laureate, 2002) and Howard Kunreuther (Wharton Business School) "Dealing with Low Probability-High Consequence Events: A Behavioral Economics of Risk Presentation" discussed on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 3:00 PM in Black Auditorium

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| | Dealing with Low Probability- High |
| | Consequence Events: |
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| | winner Daniel Kahneman and Wharton Business |
| Daniel Kahneman | School Professor Howard Kunreuther for a |
| | discussion on the behavioral economics of |
| | risk. Part of this discussion includes a |
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| Howard Kunreuther | as applied to natural disasters. |
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| | Economics relies on the twin assumptions of |
| | rationality and self-interest in |
| | decision-making. As a social science, its |
| | laboratory is the real world. However, these |
| | assumptions were not tested until the |
| | arrival of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, |
| | who through a series of pioneering cognitive |
| | experiments, introduced realistic |
| | psychological foundations to economics. |
| | Subsequently, this established the field of |
| | behavioral economics, which is now widely |
| | applied in areas of finance, development, |
| | law, climate change, and many other parts of |
| | our daily lives that involves weighing |
| | uncertain risks and rewards. |
| | |
| | |
| | In the area of natural disasters, an |
| | application of behavioral economics is |
| | especially important. How ?optimally? do we |
| | react to a low probability hazard risk of, |
| | say, a 1-in-100 year tsunami or earthquake? |
| | Why do some people invest in mitigation |
| | measures voluntarily while others do not and |
| | what does the behavioral economics of risk |
| | have to say about public policy? This |
| | discussion will shed light on such |
| | questions. |
| | |
| | |
| | This is a real-time participatory |
| | experiment. Therefore, the electronic |
| | experimental devices will be limited and |
| | made available on a first-come first-serve |
| | basis. Please arrive on time. |
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Wednesday
September 24, 2008
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Coffee and cookies will be served at 2:45 PM

Eugene Black Auditorium
World Bank H Building
600 19th Street, N.W.

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

PRESENTERS
Daniel Kahneman
2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Princeton University
Mr. Kahneman is currently a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
He is also the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at
Princeton University, and a fellow of the Center for Rationality at
the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In addition to being awarded the
Nobel Prize, he has been the recipient of many other prizes, among
them, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the
American Psychological Association and the Grawemeyer Prize.


Howard Kunreuther
Cecilia Yen Koo Professor of Decision Sciences and Public Policy,
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Mr. Kunreuther serves as Co-Director of the Wharton Risk Management
and Decision Processes Center. He has a long-standing interest in
ways that society can better manage low probability-high consequence
events, as it relates to technological and natural hazards. He is
currently an Advisory Committee member of the National Earthquake
Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP), was a member of the NRC Board on
Natural Disasters and chaired the H. John Heinz III Center Panel on
Risk, Vulnerability and True Costs of Coastal Hazards. He is a
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS), a Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis and
is a recipient of the Society's Distinguished Achievement Award.

OPENING REMARKS
Justin Yifu Lin
Senior Vice President & Chief Economist, World Bank
Mr. Lin is Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the
WorldBank. He took up this position in 2008 after serving for 15
years as Professor and Founding Director of the China Centre for
Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University. Among his many public
roles in China, Justin Yifu Lin served as a deputy of China?s
People?s Congress and Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of
Industry and Commerce. He has served on several national and
international committees, leading groups, and councils on
development policy, technology, and environment.

MODERATOR
Apurva Sanghi
Senior Economist, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and
Recovery, World Bank
Mr. Sanghi is leading the ongoing World Bank?UN Assessment on the
Economics of Disaster Risk Reduction. This event is part of a
distinguished seminar series designed to contribute ideas on
selected themes of the World Bank?UN Assessment by individuals such
as Kenneth Arrow, Freeman Dyson, Daniel Kahneman, Howard Kunreuther,
William Nordhaus, Richard Posner, Thomas Schelling, John Seo, Martin
Weitzman, and others. For more information about the Assessment,
please contact Mr. Sanghi at asanghi@worldbank.org.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
(GFDRR)
GFDRR is a partnership of the International Strategy for Disaster
Reduction (ISDR) system to support the implementation of the Hyogo
Framework for Action (HFA). The HFA, endorsed by the United Nations
General Assembly in Resolution 60/195, is the primary international
agreement for disaster reduction. One hundred sixty-eight (168)
countries and multilateral organizations including the World Bank
and the United Nations (UN) system participated in the UN World
Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan in January
2005. The principal strategic goal of the HFA is to effectively
integrate, in a coherent manner, disaster risk considerations into
sustainable development policies, planning, programming, and
financing at all levels of government.
For more information, visit GFDRR.

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.

Friday, September 19, 2008

REMINDER: Book Launch for "Environmental Health and Child Survival" on Monday, September 22 from 12:00-2:00pm in I1-200

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Each year, millions of children in developing countries fall sick and die from
diseases caused by polluted air, contaminated resources, and poor hygiene.
Repeated infections also contribute to malnutrition in children, and
subsequently impacts future learning and productivity. This book analyzes the
linkages between malnutrition and environmental health, and assesses the burden
of disease on young children and its economic costs.

Environmental Health and Child Survival: Epidemiology, Economics, Experiencesis
the fourth title in the Environment and Development Series. This series covers
current and emerging issues in order to promote debate and broaden the
understanding of environmental challenges as integral to equitable and sustained
economic growth.

?This rigorous study is a godsend to anyone involved in advocacy for water and
sanitation in developing countries. . . For politicians who are unmoved by
arguments that failure to invest in water and sanitation will make their people
poor, this study offers a clincher; it shows how lack of investment will also
negatively affect their children?s educational and cognitive performance,
because of the effects of malnutrition, exacerbated by frequent episodes of
illness.?

Sandy Cairncross
Professor of Environmental Health
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

For more information or to buy the book, please click here.

CHAIR
Warren Evans.
Director, Environment Department, World Bank
Mr. Evans' main responsibilities include overseeing the implementation of the
Bank?s Environment Strategy, which aims to mainstream environmental issues in
lending and non-lending operations. He joined the World Bank in July 2003. From
1988 to 2003, he held technical and managerial positions at the Asian
Development Bank (ADB) based in Manila, Philippines - his last ADB position was
the Director for the Environment and Social Safeguards Division. Prior to that,
Mr. Evans worked on environmental issues in developing countries, which included
his services as Advisor to the Thai National Environment Board from 1978-1981
and Managing Director of an international environmental consulting firm based in
Asia from 1982-1987.

PRESENTING AUTHORS
Anjali Acharya
Environmental Specialist, Latin America and Caribbean Region, World Bank
Since joining the Bank in 1996, Ms. Acharya has been working on various
environmental issues, including environmental health. She also works on
development policy lending as well as sectoral investment lending projects in
several countries in the LCR region. She has contributed towards numerous Bank
publications on environmental issues, and is the co-task team leader for
Environmental Health and Child Survival.

Mikko Paunio
Senior Medical Officer, Health Protection Cabinet, Ministry of Social Affairs
and Health of Finland
Mr. Paunio has over 30 peer-reviewed publications in leading medical journals,
and among many other things, is an expert in the post vaccination era
epidemiology of measles. He served as a teacher and a researcher for almost a
decade in the University of Helsinki in the 1990's. Since 2002, he was
permanently appointed as a cabinet officer in the Finnish Government. During
2006-2007, he worked as a staff member in the Environment Department of the
World Bank. During this time, he served as the co-task team leader of
Environmental Health and Child Survival.

DISCUSSANTS
Shantayanan Devarajan
Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank
Since joining the World Bank in 1991, Mr. Devarajan has been a Principal
Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development Research
Group, the Chief Economist of the Human Development Network, and of the South
Asia Region. He was the director of the World Development Report 2004: Making
Services Work for Poor People. Before 1991, he was on the faculty at Harvard
University?s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The author and co-author of
over 100 publications, Mr. Devarajan?s research covers public economics, trade
policy, natural resources and the environment, and general equilibrium modeling
of developing countries.

Paul Epstein
Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard
Medical School
Mr. Epstein has worked in medical, teaching, and research capacities in Africa,
Asia and Latin America. In 1993, he coordinated an eight-part series on Health
and Climate Change for The Lancet. Mr. Epstein has worked with the IPCC, the
NAS, NOAA, and NASA to assess the health impacts of climate change and develop
health applications of climate forecasting and remote sensing. As recognition
for his contributions to the work of the IPCC, he was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize in 2007. Mr. Epstein has also coordinated Climate Change Futures: Health,
Ecological and Economic Dimensions, an international project with Swiss Re and
the UNDP.

Jaehyang So
Manager, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), World Bank
Ms. So comes to the WSP with a background in urban service delivery, utilities
and corporate restructuring, and public private partnerships. She has focused on
improving the performance of service providers, utilities, and local governments
in the World Bank?s programs in Eastern and Central Europe, East Asia, and South
Asia. Immediately prior to joining WSP, Ms. So was the Lead Infrastructure
Specialist in the South Asia Regional Infrastructure Department working
primarily on Bangladesh and Pakistan on urban water and sanitation sector
programs. Ms. So has also worked on the World Bank?s corporate strategy and risk
management development, most recently, leading the team preparing the World Bank
Group?s Sustainable Infrastructure Action Plan.

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.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

SPECIAL EVENT: Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright launches "Domestic Violence Awareness Month" at Preston on Wednesday, October 1 at 3:00 PM

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

"Partnering to Prevent Domestic Abuse"
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| | October |
| | Domestic Violence Awareness Month |
| | |
| | The Human Resources Global Mobility (HRSGM) |
| | invites you to an event sponsored by The World |
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| | of October's Domestic Violence Awareness Month, |
| PORTRAIT BY TIMOTHY | Madeleine K. Albright, former U.S. Secretary of |
| GREENFIELD-SANDERS | State, will deliver the keynote address. |
| | |
| | As Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright |
| Wednesday, October 1, 2008 | reinforced America's alliances, advocated |
| 3:00 - 4:30 PM | democracy and human rights, and promoted |
| | American trade and business, labor, and |
| | environmental standards abroad. She has also |
| | continuously strived to improve the lives of |
| Batalan Drums to perform at 2:50 PM | women and girls around the world. |
| Book signing to follow Q&A at 3:45 | |
| PM | In Dr. Albright's own words, during the United |
| | Nation's Fourth Conference on Women in Beijing |
| | in 1995: |
| | |
| Preston Auditorium | "(I look forward) to the day when girls all over |
| World Bank Main Complex | the world will be able to look ahead with |
| 1818 H Street, NW | confidence that their lives will be valued, |
| Washington, DC | their individuality respected, their rights |
| | protected and their future determined by their |
| | own abilities and character. In such a world the |
| | lives of all of us-----men and women, boys and |
| | girls----will be enriched." |
| | |
| | Save the Date |
| | Domestic Violence Panel: What You May Not Know! |
| | Wednesday, October 29, 2008 from 12:00-2:00pm |
| | J1-050 Auditorium, World Bank J Building |
| | For more information, please contact |
| | infoshopevents@worldbank.org |
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OPENING REMARKS
Ngozi N. Okonjo-Iweala
Managing Director, World Bank

PRESENTATION
Madeleine K. Albright
Former United States Secretary of State

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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, 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: Book Launch for "Environmental Health and Child Survival" on Monday, September 22 from 12:00-2:00pm in I1-200

*This InfoShop event is available on LMS. Please click here to sign up.*.

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& World Bank Environment Department

INVITE YOU TO A LAUNCH OF A RECENT WORLD BANK PUBLICATION
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| | Each year, millions of children in |
| | developing countries fall sick and die |
| | from diseases caused by polluted air, |
| Monday | contaminated resources, and poor hygiene. |
| September 22, | Repeated infections also contribute to |
| 2008 | malnutrition in children, and |
| 12:00 - 2:00 PM | subsequently impacts future learning and |
| World Bank I | productivity. This book analyzes the |
| Building | linkages between malnutrition and |
| Auditorium | environmental health, and assesses the |
| I1-200 | burden of disease on young children and |
| Lunch will be | its economic costs. |
| served | |
| | Environmental Health and Child Survival: |
| | Epidemiology, Economics, Experiencesis |
| | the fourth title in the Environment and |
| | Development Series. This series covers |
| | current and emerging issues in order to |
| | promote debate and broaden the |
| | understanding of environmental challenges |
| | as integral to equitable and sustained |
| | economic growth. |
| | |
| | ?This rigorous study is a godsend to |
| | anyone involved in advocacy for water and |
| | sanitation in developing countries. . . |
| | For politicians who are unmoved by |
| | arguments that failure to invest in water |
| | and sanitation will make their people |
| | poor, this study offers a clincher; it |
| | shows how lack of investment will also |
| | negatively affect their children?s |
| | educational and cognitive performance, |
| | because of the effects of malnutrition, |
| | exacerbated by frequent episodes of |
| | illness.? |
| | |
| | Sandy Cairncross |
| | Professor of Environmental Health |
| | London School of Hygiene and Tropical |
| | Medicine |
| | |
| | For more information or to buy the book, |
| | please click here. |
| | |
| | |
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CHAIR
Warren Evans.
Director, Environment Department, World Bank
Mr. Evans' main responsibilities include overseeing the
implementation of the Bank?s Environment Strategy, which aims to
mainstream environmental issues in lending and non-lending
operations. He joined the World Bank in July 2003. From 1988 to
2003, he held technical and managerial positions at the Asian
Development Bank (ADB) based in Manila, Philippines - his last ADB
position was the Director for the Environment and Social Safeguards
Division. Prior to that, Mr. Evans worked on environmental issues in
developing countries, which included his services as Advisor to the
Thai National Environment Board from 1978-1981 and Managing Director
of an international environmental consulting firm based in Asia from
1982-1987.

PRESENTING AUTHORS
Anjali Acharya
Environmental Specialist, Latin America and Caribbean Region, World
Bank
Since joining the Bank in 1996, Ms. Acharya has been working on
various environmental issues, including environmental health. She
also works on development policy lending as well as sectoral
investment lending projects in several countries in the LCR region.
She has contributed towards numerous Bank publications on
environmental issues, and is the co-task team leader for
Environmental Health and Child Survival.

Mikko Paunio
Senior Medical Officer, Health Protection Cabinet, Ministry of
Social Affairs and Health of Finland
Mr. Paunio has over 30 peer-reviewed publications in leading medical
journals, and among many other things, is an expert in the post
vaccination era epidemiology of measles. He served as a teacher and
a researcher for almost a decade in the University of Helsinki in
the 1990's. Since 2002, he was permanently appointed as a cabinet
officer in the Finnish Government. During 2006-2007, he worked as a
staff member in the Environment Department of the World Bank. During
this time, he served as the co-task team leader of Environmental
Health and Child Survival.

DISCUSSANTS
Shantayanan Devarajan
Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank
Since joining the World Bank in 1991, Mr. Devarajan has been a
Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the
Development Research Group, the Chief Economist of the Human
Development Network, and of the South Asia Region. He was the
director of the World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work
for Poor People. Before 1991, he was on the faculty at Harvard
University?s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The author and
co-author of over 100 publications, Mr. Devarajan?s research covers
public economics, trade policy, natural resources and the
environment, and general equilibrium modeling of developing
countries.

Paul Epstein
Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment,
Harvard Medical School
Mr. Epstein has worked in medical, teaching, and research capacities
in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In 1993, he coordinated an
eight-part series on Health and Climate Change for The Lancet. Mr.
Epstein has worked with the IPCC, the NAS, NOAA, and NASA to assess
the health impacts of climate change and develop health applications
of climate forecasting and remote sensing. As recognition for his
contributions to the work of the IPCC, he was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize in 2007. Mr. Epstein has also coordinated Climate Change
Futures: Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions, an
international project with Swiss Re and the UNDP.

Jaehyang So
Manager, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), World Bank
Ms. So comes to the WSP with a background in urban service delivery,
utilities and corporate restructuring, and public private
partnerships. She has focused on improving the performance of
service providers, utilities, and local governments in the World
Bank?s programs in Eastern and Central Europe, East Asia, and South
Asia. Immediately prior to joining WSP, Ms. So was the Lead
Infrastructure Specialist in the South Asia Regional Infrastructure
Department working primarily on Bangladesh and Pakistan on urban
water and sanitation sector programs. Ms. So has also worked on the
World Bank?s corporate strategy and risk management development,
most recently, leading the team preparing the World Bank Group?s
Sustainable Infrastructure Action Plan.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Book Launch for "Environmental Health and Child Survival" on Monday, September 22 from 12:00-2:00pm in I1-200

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Each year, millions of children in developing countries fall sick and die from
diseases caused by polluted air, contaminated resources, and poor hygiene.
Repeated infections also contribute to malnutrition in children, and
subsequently impacts future learning and productivity. This book analyzes the
linkages between malnutrition and environmental health, and assesses the burden
of disease on young children and its economic costs.

Environmental Health and Child Survival: Epidemiology, Economics, Experiencesis
the fourth title in the Environment and Development Series. This series covers
current and emerging issues in order to promote debate and broaden the
understanding of environmental challenges as integral to equitable and sustained
economic growth.

?This rigorous study is a godsend to anyone involved in advocacy for water and
sanitation in developing countries. . . For politicians who are unmoved by
arguments that failure to invest in water and sanitation will make their people
poor, this study offers a clincher; it shows how lack of investment will also
negatively affect their children?s educational and cognitive performance,
because of the effects of malnutrition, exacerbated by frequent episodes of
illness.?

Sandy Cairncross
Professor of Environmental Health
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

For more information or to buy the book, please click here.

CHAIR
Warren Evans.
Director, Environment Department, World Bank
Mr. Evans' main responsibilities include overseeing the implementation of the
Bank?s Environment Strategy, which aims to mainstream environmental issues in
lending and non-lending operations. He joined the World Bank in July 2003. From
1988 to 2003, he held technical and managerial positions at the Asian
Development Bank (ADB) based in Manila, Philippines - his last ADB position was
the Director for the Environment and Social Safeguards Division. Prior to that,
Mr. Evans worked on environmental issues in developing countries, which included
his services as Advisor to the Thai National Environment Board from 1978-1981
and Managing Director of an international environmental consulting firm based in
Asia from 1982-1987.

PRESENTING AUTHORS
Anjali Acharya
Environmental Specialist, Latin America and Caribbean Region, World Bank
Since joining the Bank in 1996, Ms. Acharya has been working on various
environmental issues, including environmental health. She also works on
development policy lending as well as sectoral investment lending projects in
several countries in the LCR region. She has contributed towards numerous Bank
publications on environmental issues, and is the co-task team leader for
Environmental Health and Child Survival.

Mikko Paunio
Senior Medical Officer, Health Protection Cabinet, Ministry of Social Affairs
and Health of Finland
Mr. Paunio has over 30 peer-reviewed publications in leading medical journals,
and among many other things, is an expert in the post vaccination era
epidemiology of measles. He served as a teacher and a researcher for almost a
decade in the University of Helsinki in the 1990's. Since 2002, he was
permanently appointed as a cabinet officer in the Finnish Government. During
2006-2007, he worked as a staff member in the Environment Department of the
World Bank. During this time, he served as the co-task team leader of
Environmental Health and Child Survival.

DISCUSSANTS
Shantayanan Devarajan
Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank
Since joining the World Bank in 1991, Mr. Devarajan has been a Principal
Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development Research
Group, the Chief Economist of the Human Development Network, and of the South
Asia Region. He was the director of the World Development Report 2004: Making
Services Work for Poor People. Before 1991, he was on the faculty at Harvard
University?s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The author and co-author of
over 100 publications, Mr. Devarajan?s research covers public economics, trade
policy, natural resources and the environment, and general equilibrium modeling
of developing countries.

Paul Epstein
Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard
Medical School
Mr. Epstein has worked in medical, teaching, and research capacities in Africa,
Asia and Latin America. In 1993, he coordinated an eight-part series on Health
and Climate Change for The Lancet. Mr. Epstein has worked with the IPCC, the
NAS, NOAA, and NASA to assess the health impacts of climate change and develop
health applications of climate forecasting and remote sensing. As recognition
for his contributions to the work of the IPCC, he was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize in 2007. Mr. Epstein has also coordinated Climate Change Futures: Health,
Ecological and Economic Dimensions, an international project with Swiss Re and
the UNDP.

Jaehyang So
Manager, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), World Bank
Ms. So comes to the WSP with a background in urban service delivery, utilities
and corporate restructuring, and public private partnerships. She has focused on
improving the performance of service providers, utilities, and local governments
in the World Bank?s programs in Eastern and Central Europe, East Asia, and South
Asia. Immediately prior to joining WSP, Ms. So was the Lead Infrastructure
Specialist in the South Asia Regional Infrastructure Department working
primarily on Bangladesh and Pakistan on urban water and sanitation sector
programs. Ms. So has also worked on the World Bank?s corporate strategy and risk
management development, most recently, leading the team preparing the World Bank
Group?s Sustainable Infrastructure Action Plan.

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.