| Panel Discussion | "Fertility Regulation Behaviors and Their Costs: Contraception and Unintended Pregnancies in Africa and Eastern Europe & Central Asia" |
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 3:00 PM |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Elizabeth Lule, John May, Michael Vlassoff, and Phillip Hay |
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| Film Screening | "Africa Investment Horizons" by Carol Pineau |
| Date/Time: | Monday, July 7, 2008, 1:00 PM |
| Venue: | Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H St NW) |
| Presented by: | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Carol Pineau |
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| Panel Discussion | "New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics" |
| Date/Time: | Thursday, June 26, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Steven Durlauf, Shanta Devarajan, and Laurie Harting |
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| Panel Discussion | "Global Democracy: The Struggle for Political and Civil Rights in the 21st Century" |
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | JB1-080 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Didier Jacobs, Ann Florini, Amar Bhattacharya, and John Garrison |
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| Panel Discussion | "Striking a Balance: Work, Family, Life" |
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Robert Drago, Helen Diaz, Geremie Sawadogo, Khaled F. Sherif, and Ann Jeannette Glauber |
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| Grand Opening Celebration | InfoShop Reopens after Renovations |
| Date/Time: | Monday, June 23, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue: | InfoShop (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | World Bank InfoShop |
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| Book Launch | "World Trade Indicators" |
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Rakesh Nangia, Ngozi N. Okonjo-Iweala, Roumeen Islam, and Gianni Zanini |
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| Book Launch | "Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation" |
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 10:00 am |
| Venue: | MC4-800 (1818 H Street NW) |
| Presented by: | Daniel Kaufmann, Kreszentia Duer, Steve Buckley, Toby Mendel, Seán Ó Siochrú, Monroe Price, Marc Raboy, and Eric Chinje |
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| Book Launch | "Terrorism, Economic Development and Political Openness" |
| Date/Time: | Monday, June 16, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H St NW) |
| Presented by: | Francis Fukuyama, Philip Keefer, Norman Loayza, and Sarah Cliffe |
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| Panel Discussion | "Education - The Right Response to Child Labor" (for World Day Against Child Labor) |
| Date/Time: | Thursday, June 12, 2008, 1:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Sudhanshu Joshi, Len Morris, Robert Prouty, Rogerio Studart, Dhanendra Kumar, Nicholas Burnett, Cream Wright, Armand F. Pereira, Kailash Satyarthi, H.E Mark P. Lagon, Marcia Eugenio, Jan Eastman, and Aud Kolberg |
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| Roundtable | "Prospects for Trade Integration through Unilateral Reforms and International Agreements" |
| Date/Time: | Thursday, June 12, 2008, 10:30 am |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Gianni Zanini, Jeffrey Schott, Arvind Panagariya, Bernard Hoekman, Pablo de la Flor (via videoconference), and Sherry Stephenson |
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| Presentation | Health and Fragile States Network (studies on aid effectiveness in transition, and health and state-building) |
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 12:30 pm |
| Venue: | MC13-121 (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H St NW) |
| Presented by: | Jack Eldon, Olga Bornemisza, Petra Vergeer, and Julian Schweitzer |
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| Publication Launch | "Business and Poverty: Opening Markets to the Poor" (June issue of Development Outreach magazine) |
| Date/Time: | Monday, June 9, 2008, 12:30 pm |
| Venue: | Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H St NW) |
| Presented by: | V. Kasturi Rangan, William Laufer, Djordjija Petkoski, David Lustig, Tony Henshaw, Masakazu Sago, Louise Hilsen, and Christopher Neal |
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| Book Series Launch | "New Frontiers of Social Policy - Inclusive States, Equity and Assets" |
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | JB1-080 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Kathy Sierra, Caroline Kende-Robb, Anis Dani, Francisco Ferreira, Carol Graham, and by videoconference: Arjan de Haan and Caroline Moser |
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| Book Launch | "Strategic Environmental Assessment for Policies - An Instrument for Good Governance" |
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Inger Andersen, Kulsum Ahmed, Ernesto Sánchez-Triana, Harry Blair, Caroline Kende-Robb, Colin Bruce, and Michael Stanley |
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| Book Launch | "Hospital Performance in Brazil: The Search for Excellence" |
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Jerry La Forgia, Julian Schweitzer, Maureen Lewis, Mukesh Chawla, John Briscoe, and Robert Murray |
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| Panel Discussion | "Bribery and Extortion: Undermining Business, Governments, and Security" |
| Date/Time: | Thursday, May 22, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Alexandra Wrage, Lisa Bhansali, and Pascale Helene Dubois |
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| Panel Discussion | The World Bank Group's Transport Business Strategy for 2008-2012 |
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Jamal Saghir, Marc Juhel, Zmarak Shalizi, Maryvonne Plessis-Fraissard, Oscar de Buen, Wojciech Suchorzewski (tbc), Alistair Wray, and Peter O'Neill |
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| Book Launch | "Parliaments as Peacebuilders in Conflict-Affected Countries" |
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 12:00pm |
| Venue: | I 2-250 (1850 I "Eye" Street NW) |
| Presented by: | Edith Grace Ssempala, Rick Stapenhurst, Rasheed Draman, and by videoconference: Lord John Alderdice, William Shija, and Niall Johnston |
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| Book Launch | "The World Bank's Commitment to HIV/AIDS in Africa" |
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Gerard Byam, Phillip Jeremy Hay, Elizabeth Lule, Shantayanan Devarajan, John Hassell, Yolanda Richardson, Antony Thompson |
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| Comedy Show | "Queen Aishah" |
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | JB1-080 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Queen Aishah, Freddi Vernell, and Lisa Lanham |
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| Film Screening | "As We Forgive" directed by Laura Waters Hinson |
| Date/Time: | Thursday, May 8, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H St NW) |
| Presented by: | Laura Waters Hinson and Laura Bailey |
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| Symposium and Exhibition Opening | "Borderless Captivity: Exploitation and Human Trafficking" |
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, May 7, 2008, 12:30 pm |
| Venue: | Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H St NW) |
| Photos by: | Kay Chernush, Howard G. Buffett, Karen Robinson, Pete Pattisson, Ted Haddock, João Silva, Olivier Asselin, Robert Bilheimer, and Free the Slaves staff members |
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| Book Launch | "Knowledge and Innovation for Competitiveness in Brazil" |
| Date/Time: | Thursday, May 1, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Alberto Rodriguez, Ariel Fiszbein, John Briscoe, Vinod Thomas, Robin Horn, and Bruno Laporte |
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| Book Launch | "The World Bank: From Reconstruction to Development to Equity" |
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Katherine Marshall, John Clark, Chad Dobson, and Werner Kiene |
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| Book Launch | "The Persistence of Poverty: Why the Economics of the Well-Off Can't Help the Poor" |
| Date/Time: | Monday, April 28, 2008, 12:30 pm |
| Venue: | JB1-080 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Charles Karelis, Steven Pearlstein, Daniel Hardy, and Deepa Narayan |
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| Panel Discussion | "Promoting Better Work in Global Supply Chains" |
| Date/Time: | Friday, April 25, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Ros Harvey, Dottie Hatcher, and Bruce Moats |
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| Book Launch | "The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and The Quest for a Global Nation" |
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Strobe Talbott,John van Oudenaren, Daniel Kaufmann, andMichele De Nevers |
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| Panel Discussion | "Services Trade Reform and International Negotiations" |
| Date/Time: | Friday, April 18, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Roumeen Islam,Gianni Zanini, Aaditya Mattoo, Christina Bliss, Mario Marconini (by videoconference), Dominique Njinkeu and Uri Dadush |
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| Seminar | "Growth Strategies and Urbanization: Insights from the Commission on Growth and Development" |
| Date/Time: | Thursday, April 17, 2008, 8:45 am |
| Venue: | Preston Auditorium (1818 H Street NW) |
| Presented by: | Michael Spence, Danny Leipziger, Graeme P. Wheeler et al. |
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| Book Launch | "The Practice of Fiscal Federalism: Comparative Perspectives" |
| Date/Time: | Monday, April 14, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Justin Yifu Lin,Anwar Shah, Adrienne Cheasty, and Rakesh Nangia |
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| Panel Discussion and Launch | "Financing Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises: An Independent Evaluation of IFC's Experience with Financial Intermediaries in Frontier Countries" |
| Date/Time: | Friday, April 11, 2008, 10:00 am |
| Venue: | IFC Auditorium (2121 Pennsylvania Avenue, entrance on K Street) |
| Presented by: | Vinod Thomas,Marvin Taylor-Dormond, Amitava Banerjee, James Scriven, Elizabeth Littlefield, and Javier Fernández Cueto |
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| Lunch Conversation | "Spirit and Power: A 10-Country Survey of Pentecostals" |
| Date/Time: | Thursday, April 10, 2008, 12:30 pm |
| Venue: | G7-161 (1776 G Street NW) |
| Presented by: | Luis Lugo and Katherine Marshall |
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| Book Launch | "Remittances and Development: Lessons from Latin America" |
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 2:00 pm |
| Venue: | I1-200 (1850 I "Eye" Street NW) |
| Presented by: | Pamela Cox, Pablo Fajnzylber, J. Humberto Lopez, Susan Minushkin,
and Sergio Jellinek |
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| Book Launch | "Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population" |
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 12:30 pm |
| Venue: | JB1-080 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Matthew Connelly and Varun Gauri |
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| Film Screening | "Magic Radio: The FM Revolution in Niger" |
| Date/Time: | Thursday, April 3, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Mark Nelson,Kreszentia Duer, andAjay Tejasvi |
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| Book Launch | "Implementing theExtractive Industries Transparency Initiative: Applying Early Lessons from the Field" |
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Somit Varma,Sanjay Pradhan, Paulo de Sa, Eleodoro Mayorga Alba, and Anwar Ravat |
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| Film Screening | "Blood Diamond" |
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 12:30 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
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| Presentation | "Understanding the Arab World:Oman's Unique Journey toward Modernization" |
| Date/Time: | Monday, March 31, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | JB1-080 (701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Linda Pappas Funsch,Iouri Bairatchnyi,Rebiha Hacene-Djaballah, andZoubida Allaoua |
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| Book Launch | "China Urbanizes: Consequences, Strategies, and Policies" |
| Date/Time: | Friday, March 28, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW,corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Vikram Nehru, Shahid Yusuf, Zmarak Shalizi, Yukon Huang, and Pieter Bottelier |
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| Panel Discussion | The Role of Migration in Globalization and Launch of "Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008" |
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 2:00 pm |
| Venue: | Preston Auditorium (1818 H St. NW, entrance on 18th St.) |
| Presented by: | Uri Dadush,Demetrios Papademetriou,Jason DeParle, andDilip Ratha |
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| Film Screening | "Slum Survivors" (part of the Environmental Film Festival) |
| Date/Time: | Monday, March 17, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue: | Eugene H. Black Auditorium ( 600 19th Street N.W.) |
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| Presentation | " Will God - or Man - Play Dice with Nature?: The Tail of Catastrophic Climate Change" |
| Date/Time: | Thursday, March 13, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue: | JB1-080 (701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Martin Weitzman, Richard Posner, John Seo, Thomas Schelling, Apurva Sanghi |
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| Presentation | "Adapting to Climate Change: What Can We Actually Do? -- The Experience of the UK and What We Can Learn From It" |
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 1:30 pm |
| Venue: | JB1-080 (701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Chris West, Pradeep Mitra, Caitlin Simpson, Dennis Ojima |
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| Book Launch | "India: The Emerging Giant" |
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue: | JB1-080 (701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Arvind Panagariya,Dhanendra Kumar, Adarsh Kishore, Praful Patel, Vinod Thomas |
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| Book Launch | "Women in Nation-Building" |
| Date/Time: | Monday, March 3, 2008, 2:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Markus Kostner, Cheryl Benard, Ian Bannon, Pia Peeters |
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| Presentation | "Africa Environment Day" |
| Date/Time: | Monday, March 3, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Eugene H. Black Auditorium ( 600 19th Street N.W.) |
| Presented by: | H.E. Amina Salum Ali, Beldina Auma, William Godfrey, Herbert Acquay, Walter Lusigi, John Mulaa |
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| Film Screening | "An Inconvenient Truth" |
| Date/Time: | Thursday, February 28, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
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| Book Launch | "Financing Energy Efficiency: Lessons from Brazil, China, India, and Beyond" |
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 9:00am |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Robert P. Taylor, Chandrasekar Govindarajalu, Jeremy Levin, Anke S. Meyer, Todd M. Johnson, Jas Singh |
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| Book Launch | "Socioeconomic Differences in HNP in Developing Countries" |
| Date/Time: | Monday, February 25, 2008, 12:00pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Ruth Levin, Davidson R. Gwatkin, Shea Rutstein, Adam Wagstaff |
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| Discussion | "Could A Mobile Phone Replace A Bank Branch?" |
| Date/Time: | Thursday, February 7, 2008, 4:00pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Elizabeth Littlefield, Gautam Ivatury, Tim Lyman, Mark Pickens |
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| Book Launch | "Public Finance in China: Reform and Growth for a Harmonious Society " |
| Date/Time: | Thursday, January 31, 2008, 3:00pm |
| Venue: | J building (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Jiwei Lou, Jim Adams, Shuilin Wang, Teresa Ter-Minassian, Martin Ravallion, Carlos Alberto Braga |
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| Book Launch | "Saving The Americas: The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and What the U.S. Must Do" |
| Date/Time: | Thursday, January 31, 2008, 12:00pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Andrés Oppenheimer, Sergio Jellinek, Marcelo Giugale |
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| Book Launch | "Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope" |
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 12:00pm |
| Venue: | Eugene Black Auditorium (600 19th St. NW) |
| Presented by: | Jenna Bush, Erika Mae Lorenzana |
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| Book Launch | "From Warsaw to Wherever" |
| Date/Time: | Thursday, January 24, 2008, 12:30pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Zygmunt Nagorski, Frannie Leautier, Phil Hay |
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| Book Launch | "Tackling the Climate Change - Urban Nexus" |
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, January 23, 2008, 3:00pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Cynthia Rosenzweig, Eric Schwartz, Zmarak Shalizi, Apurva Sanghi |
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| Book Launch | "Building Inclusive Financial Systems: A Framework for Financial Access" |
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 4:00pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Elizabeth Littlefield, Anjali Kumar, Marilou Uy, Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Peer Stein, Hanns-Martin Hagen, Michael Barr |
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| Book Launch | "Transforming Government, Empowering Communities, and Building the Knowledge Economy" |
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, January 15, 2008, 12:00pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Praful Patel, Simon Bell, Nagy Hanna, Philippe Dongier, Manju Haththotuwa, Dhanendra Kumar |
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| Panel Discussion | "Adapting to the Changing Climate in the Bank on Climate Change" |
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, January 9, 2008, 3:30pm |
| Venue: | Preston Auditorium, 1818 H street, NW 20433 |
| Presented by: | Apurva Sanghi, Nancy Birdsall, Robert Mendelsohn, Shanta Devarajan, Homi Kharas |
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| Book Launch | "Russia's Capitalist Revolution" |
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, January 8, 2008, 12:00pm |
| Venue: | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
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