Webcasts of InfoShop events on B-SPAN

What is B-SPAN?
B-SPAN is an Internet-based broadcasting service that presents World Bank seminars, workshops, and conferences on a variety of sustainable development and poverty reduction issues.  B-SPAN streams events on the Internet, archives them on the  B-SPAN web site, offers them in their original unedited format, and provides indexing for quick access to specific speakers. B-SPAN's webcasts are free and available to anyone with access to the Internet. Users need only to download a free version of   RealPlayer, a software that allows the playing of archived videos on a personal computer.

 

Grappling With Health Worker Shortages (September 17, 2009) 

Global Investment Promotion Benchmarking 2009 (September 1, 2009) 

Communities of Practice at the World Bank & Beyond: Seizing a Critical Opportunity (July 23, 2009)

Information and Communication for Development 2009 (June 30, 2009) 

Gender Parity in World Bank Group Management (June 29, 2009) 

Two Billion Cars (05/20/2009)

Israel 2028 (05/13/2009) 

The Global Deal (04/28/2009) 

Moving Out of Poverty (04/27/2009)

Time Inconsistent Bailouts (April 24, 2009) 

War, Guns and Votes (03/03/2009) 

Getting Finance in South Asia 2009 (01/27/2009)

Creative Capitalism (01/26/2009)

Climate Change and Disasters - Risk and Policy (09/11/2008)

Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability (06/17/2008)

Terrorism, Economic Development, and Political Openness (06/16/2008)

DEVELOPMENT OUTREACH - Business and Poverty: Opening Markets to the Poor (06/09/2008)

New Frontiers of Social Policy - Inclusive States, Equity, and Assets (06/04/2008)

Safe, Clean, and Affordable...Transport for Development (05/21/2008)

Parliaments as Peacebuilders in Conflict-Affected Countries (05/20/2008)

Borderless Captivity: Exploitation and Human Trafficking (05/07/2008)

A Handbook of International Trade in Services (04/18/2008)

The Practice of Fiscal Federalism (04/14/2008)

Will God - or Man - Play Dice with Nature? The ’Tail’ of Catastrophic Climate Change (3/13/2008)

Financing Energy Efficiency: Lessons from Brazil, China, India and Beyond (02/27/2008)

World Trade Indicators: Global Trade Policies ad Online Tools For Policy Analysis (12/12/2007)

Korea as a Knowledge Economy: Evolutionary Process and Lessons Learned (12/13/2007)

Gender and Economic Growth in Tanzania (11/08/2007)

Spending for Development (07/10/2007)

Beyond Disasters: Creating Opportunities for Peace (07/13/2007)

Public Policy and the Challenges of Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases (06/27/2007)

Societal Learning and Change (6/20/2007)

Publishing for Impact 2007: Reaching Readers Across Boundaries (06/5/2007)

A Decade of Action in Transport (04/17/2007)

Making Finance Work for Africa (03/13/2007)

Muscat, Sultanate of Oman  (07/12/2006)

Libya: Development Prospects and Challenges  (06/19/2006)

Escaping Poverty's Grasp and Creating Prosperity in Africa (06/15/2006)

Identity and Violence (05/24/2006)

Governance and Aid (04/27/2006)

Implementing Power Rationing in a Sensible Way (04/12/2006)

From Inside Brazil: Development in a Land of Contrasts(04/07/2006)

Information and Communications for Development 2006: Global Trends and Policies  (04/05/2006)

Capitalism' s Achilles Heel (03/30/2006)

Assessing World Bank Support for Trade 1987-2004 (03/24/2006)

Not If, But When: Adapting to Natural Hazards in the Pacific Islands Region (03/03/2006)

Indigenous Peoples, Poverty, and Human Development in Latin America (02/23/2006)

Cities in a Globalizing World (02/15/2006)

 

Repositioning Nutrition as Central to development: A Strategy For Large-Scale Action(01/30/2006)

 

History matters: Development For The 21st Century  (01/30/2006)

 

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed  (01/19/2006)

 

Launch of reaching the Poor with Health, Nutrition, and Population Services  (12/07/2005)

 

Middle East and North Africa HIV/AIDS Strategy Launch  (12/01/2005)

 

Global Economic Prospects 2006 (11/21/2005)

 

DEC Lecture Series - Climate Change and Technology (11/10/2005)

 

Understanding Civil War: Evidence and Analysis (11/08/2005)

 

Reducing Poverty On a Global Scale (11/03/2005)

Rapid Results! How 100-day Projects Build the Capacity for Large Scale Change (11/02/2005)

Remittances: Development Impact and Future Prospects (06/30/2005)

African Development Indicators 2005 (06/29/2005)

Latin American Development Series: The Future of Reforms in Latin America (06/22/2005)

Market for Aid (06/16/2005)

Post-Conflict Rwanda: Presentation by Dele Olojede (05/24/2005)

Expanding Opportunities and Building Competencies for Young People (05/21/2005)

The World Is Flat By Thomas Friedman (04/26/2005)

Economic Growth in the 1990s (04/18/2005)

A Chance for the World Bank by Jo Ritzen (04/06/2005)

A Conversation with Queen Noor of Jordan (04/04/2005)

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, by Jeffrey Sachs (03/22/2005)

Health Insurance Reform in Nigeria (03/21/2005)

Addressing the Challenges of Globalization (01/24/2005)

Francis Fukuyama presents State Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century (12/14/2004)

South Asia Decentralization Series: Fiscal Decentralization to Rural Governments in India (12/07/2004)

Economies in Transition: An OED Evaluation of World Bank Assistance (12/01/2004)

Millennium Development Goals for Health: Rising to the Challenges (11/09/2004)

Transition Years: Reflections on Economic Reform and Social Changes in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (10/21/2004)

Responsible Growth for the New Millennium: Integrating Society, Ecology and the Economy (09/29/2004)

World Development Report 2005 (09/28/2004)

WTO and Challenges of Export-Led Growth: The WTO, Developing Countries and the Doha Development Agenda (09/23/2004)

2003 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (07/15/2004)

Global Monitoring Report 2004 (07/07/2004)

Middle East and North Africa Development Report Series (06/15/2004)

Reforming Infrastructure: Privatization, Regulation and Competition (06/14/2004)

Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (06/03/2004)

AIDS and South Africa: The Social Expression of a Pandemic (06/02/2004)

Culture and Prosperity: The Truth About Markets - Why Some Nations are Rich but Most Remain Poor (05/25/2004)

Improving the Lives of the Poor Through Investment in Cities: An Update on the Performance of the World Bank's Urban Portfolio (05/19/2004)

African Development Indicators (04/07/2004)

World on Fire: A Discussion with Amy Chua (03/25/2004)

Knowledge Economies in the Middle East and North Africa (03/09/2004)

Russia: All 89 Regions Trade and Investment Guide (02/19/2004)

Saving Capitalism From Capitalists (01/29/2004)

The Roaring Nineties by Joseph Stigliz (11/06/2003)

World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for the Poor (10/30/2003)

Duel Book Launch for Chinua Achebe: Teacher of Light and the Debt Trap in Nigeria (10/27/2003)

Averting AIDS Crises in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: A Regional Support Strategy (10/15/2003)

Toward Country Led Developments (09/09/2003)

The Quiet Revolution (07/23/2003)

Steering by the Stars: Being Young in South Africa with Mamphele Ramphele (05/15/2003)

Worlds Apart (05/14/2003)

Governance Indicators, 1996-2002 (05/13/2003)

Lessons from NAFTA for Latin America and the Caribbean (04/16/2003)

White Mughals: East and West Before the Clash of Civilizations (04/15/2003)

Joseph Stiglitz and Kenneth Rogoff Discuss Globalization and Its Discontents (06/28/2002)

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