Upcoming Events at the InfoShop

The InfoShop organizes public seminars, roundtables, book launches, conferences, lectures, and other activities. As the only publicly accessible space at the World Bank in Washington DC, the InfoShop is focused on providing open access to published material and a forum for development discourse.

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	Book Launch		"The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 12:30 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Kenneth Reinert, Ramkishen Rajan, Peter Dougherty, and Francisco Ferreira

	Book Launch		"Conditional Cash Transfers: Reducing Present and Future Poverty"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 10:30 am
	Venue:		Eugene Black Auditorium (1914 G St NW)
	Presented by:		Justin Lin, Ariel Fiszbein, Norbert Schady, Martin Ravallion, Tina Rosenberg, and Santiago Levy

	Book Launch		"The Second World: How Emerging Powers are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, February 12, 2009, 12:30 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Srilal Mohan Perera, Parag Khanna, and Stewart Patrick

	Book Launch		"Illuminating the Public Sphere in Post-Conflict and Fragile Environments"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 3:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Shanthi Kalathil, Henriette von Kaltenborn-Stachau, Ivan Sigal, and Karin von Hippel

	Book Launch		"South Asian Bond Markets: Developing Long-Term Finance and Growth"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, February 19, 2009, 12:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Kiatchai Sophastienphong, Yibin Mu, Shidan Derakhshani, Phillip Anderson, Ernesto May, and Simon Bell

	Panel Discussion		"Development Redefined: How the Market Met Its Match"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 3:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Robin Broad, John Cavanagh, Hassan Zaman, Rick Rowden, and John Garrison

	Panel Discussion		"Development in Your Pocket: Improving Lives with Mobile Phones"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 4:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Nick Hughes, Katrin Verclas, Holly Ladd, Jesse Moore, and Gautam Ivatury

	Book Launch		"Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 2:00 pm
	Venue:		Conference Room 1, International Monetary Fund HQ2 (1900 Pennsylvania Ave. NW)
	Presented by:		Paul Collier, Jeffrey Gutman, Sanjay Pradhan, and Shantayanan Devarajan


	Book Launch		"Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can save the World"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 3:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium JB1-080 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Matthew Bishop, Daniel Runde, Homi Kharas, Carol Adelman

	Panel Discussion		Wangari Maathai, Bruce Babbitt, and Thomas Friedman"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 2:00 pm
	Venue:		IFC Auditorium (2121 Pennsylvania Avenue NW)
	Presented by:		Wangari Maathai, Bruce Babbitt, Thomas Friedman, Apurva Sanghi

	Book Launch		"AIDS - Is It a Risk to Economic Development in Regions with Low HIV Prevalence?"
	Date/Time		Monday, April 20, 2009, 12:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Julie McLaughlin, Mariam Claeson, Mead Over, Robert Clay, Debrework Zewdie

	Book Launch		Edward Prescott (Nobel Laureate) "Time Inconsistent Traps: Bailouts for all when credible to none"
	Date/Time:		Friday, April 24, 2009, 2:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium I2-250 (1850 I Street NW)
	Presented by:		Edward Prescott, Shantayanan Devarajan, Vikram Nehru, Apurva Sanghi

	Book Launch		"Moving Out of Poverty "
	Date/Time:		Monday, April 27, 2009, 12:00 pm
	Venue:		Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H Street NW)
	Presented by:		Danny Leipziger, Deepa Narayan, Lant Pritchett, Geoffrey Lamb

	Book Launch		"The Global Deal"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 4:30 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium JB1-080 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Nicholas Stern, Hartwig Schafer, Marianne Fay

	Book Launch		"The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 12:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Elizabeth King, Harry Anthony Patrinos, Paul Peterson, Neil McIntosh

	Book Launch		"Hardware and Software Industries in China and India"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, April 30, 2009, 12:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Mohsen Khalil, Neil Gregory, Stanley Nollen, Stoyan Tenev, Shahid Yusuf, Albert Keidel

	Book Launch		"The Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 3:00 pm
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Elizabeth King, Jamil Salmi, Richard Miller, Philip Altbach

	Film Screening		"One Water"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 12:30 PM and 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Sam Grogg, Sanjeev Chatterjee

	Panel Discussion		"Israel 2028"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Eli Hurvitz, David Brodet, Jaime Jaramillo-Vallej, David Miron-Wapner, Ann Liebschutz, Yoav Soffer

	Book Launch		"Two Billion Cars"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Daniel Sperling; Deborah Gordon; Andreas Kopp

	Book Launch		"Portfolios of the Poor"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Daryl Collins; Jonathan Morduch; Asli Demirguc-Kunt; Robert Cull

	Book Launch		"Water in the Arab World"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, May 28, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Daniela Gressani; Vijay Jagannathan; Christian Delvoie

	Panel Discussion		"Africa Development Indicators Online"
	Date/Time:		Monday, June 15, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Sudhir Shetty; Jorge Saba Arbache; Jane Njuguna; Alan Gelb; Antoine Simonpietri; Valentina Kalk

	Book Launch		"IC4D 2009: Extending Reach and Increasing Impact"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Katherine Sierra; Christine Zen-Wei Qiang; Otaviano Canuto; G. "Anand" Anandalingam; Mohsen Khalil

	Film Screening		"The End of the Line"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Eugene Black Auditorium (1914 G St NW)
	Presented by:		Kieran Kelleher; Marea Eleni Hatziolos

	Book Launch		"Global Investment Promotion Benchmarking"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 12:30 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Pierre Guislain, Ceci Sager, Louis T. Wells, Danny Cusick

	Book Launch		"Building Equality and Opportunity Through Social Guarantees"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, September 10, 2009, 11:30 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Cyprian Fisiy; Pamela Cox; José Miguel Insulza; Francisco Pilotti; Andrew Norton; Rodrigo Jordan

	Book Launch		"Grappling With Health Worker Shortages"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, September 17, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium I2-250 (1850 I Street NW)
	Presented by:		Phil Hay; Marko Vujicic; Joy Phumaphi; Ruth Levine; Joan Holloway

	Book Launch		"Brazil as an Economic Superpower?"
	Date/Time		Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		José Guilherme Reis; Leonardo Martinez-Diaz; Bruno Saraiva; Francisco Ferreira

	Book Launch		Ambassador Melanee Verveer launches "Domestic Violence Awareness Month"
	Date/Time		Thursday, September 17, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Eugene Black Auditorium (1914 G St NW)
	Presented by:		Ngozi N. Okonjo-Iweala; Melanne Verveer; Hasan A. Tuluy; Tina Gry Tinde; Shirley Siegal

	Book Launch		"Welcome to the Urban Revolution"
	Date/Time		Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Abha Joshi-Ghani; Jeb Brugmann; Junaid Kamal Ahmad

	Book Launch		"Globalization, Wages, and the Quality of Jobs"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Arup Banerji; Raymond Robertson; Drusilla Brown; Kimberly Elliot; David Kaplan

	Book Launch		"The Idea of Justice"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 4:30 PM
	Venue:		Eugene Black Auditorium (1914 G St NW)
	Presented by:		Amartya Sen; Anne-Marie Leroy; Otaviano Canuto

	Film Screening		"Toxic Transactions"
	Date/Time:		Friday, October 16, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Eugene Black Auditorium (1914 G St NW)
	Presented by:		Frank Fariello; Alexandra Wrage; Stephen Zimmermann; Pascale Hélène Dubois

	Book Launch		Secretary General of Amnesty International, Irene Khan, discusses "The Unheard Truth"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		John Garrison; Irene Khan; Ellen Dorsey; Varun Gauri

	Film Screening		Y2Y Presents "Where the Water Meets the Sky"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, October 22, 2:45 PM
	Venue:		Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H Street NW)
	Presented by:		Nikita Malik; Kimberley Sevcik

	Film Screening		Film Screening for BBC Documentary "Cash in Hand"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Sergio Jellinek; Pamela Cox; Santiago Levy Algazi; Helena Ribe

	Book Launch		"Bringing Finance to Pakistan
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 11:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		John Speakman; Tatiana Nenova; Cecile Thioro Niang; Ernesto May; Consolate Rusagara; Anjali Kumar

	Book Launch		"Distortions to Agricultural Incentives"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, November 5, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Alan Gelb; Kym Anderson; Anne O. Krueger; Martien Van Nieuwkoop

	Book Launch		"What Color is Your Paratext? Trust and the Web"
	Date/Time:		Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Carlos Rossel; Geoffrey Bilder

	Book Launch		"Robert Skidelsky discusses "Keynes: The Return of the Master"
	Date/Time:		Thursday, November 19, 2009, 12:30 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Alan Gelb; Robert Skidelsky

	Book Launch		"Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart discuss "This Time is Different"
	Date/Time:		Friday, November 20, 2009, 12:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Hans Timmer; Carmen M. Reinhart; Kenneth S. Rogoff; Luc Laeven

	Book Launch		"Public Sentinel: New Media & Governance Reform"
	Date/Time:		Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 3:00 PM
	Venue:		Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)
	Presented by:		Sanjay Pradhan; Pippa Norris; Jose Edgardo L. Campos; Philip Keefer

Please note, all events are subject to change
Phone: 202 458-4500 (9:30 am - 3:30 p.m.)
For more information and to RSVP for an event, please contact: infoshopevents@worldbank.org

Last updated: 2009-11-09

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