| Book Launch |  | Development Economics and the Role of the World Development Report |
| Date/Time: | Â | Thursday, December 18, 2008, Â 9:00 am |
| Venue:  |  | Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H Street NW)   |
| Presented by: |  | Justin Lin, Shahid Yusuf, Kemal Dervis, Angus Deaton, Takatoshi Ito, and William Easterly  |
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| Book Launch |  | "Prosperity Unbound: Building Property Markets with Trust"  |
| Date/Time:   |  | Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 3:00 pm  |
| Venue:  |  | Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)   |
| Presented by: |  | Elena Panaritis, Francis Fukuyama, and Klaus Deininger  |
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| Book Launch  |  | "Low Carbon, High Growth: Latin American Responses to Climate Change"  |
| Date/Time:   |  | Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 2:30 pm |
| Venue:Â Â | Â | Auditorium I1-200Â Â (1850 I "Eye" Street NW)Â Â |
| Presented by: |  | Augusto de la Torre, John Nash, Pamela Cox, Robert Engelman, and Sergio Jellinek  |
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| Book Launch  |  | "European Health Systems and Policies"  |
| Date/Time:  |  | Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue:Â | Â | The InfoShop (701 18th Street NW)Â Â |
| Presented by: |  | Martin McKee, Richard Saltman, Ted Ahlers, Abdo Yazbeck, and Armin Fidler |
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| Film Screening | Â | Africa Today (Teach Africa)Â |
| Date/Time: |  | Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 6:00 pm |
| Venue:  |  | Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H Street NW)   |
| Presented by: |  | Congressman Donald Payne, Bernadette Paolo, Sarah Moten, and Gail Ifshin |
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| Book Launch |  | "Alliance Curse: How America Lost The Third World" |
| Date/Time:  |  | Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue:Â Â | Â | Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)Â Â Â |
| Presented by:  |  | Hilton L. Root and Brian Levy |
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| Book Launch | Â | "From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World"Â Â |
| Date/Time:  |  | Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue:  |  | Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H Street NW)  |
| Presented by:  |  | Duncan Green, Jeff Thindwa, Shantayanan Devarajan and John Sewell  |
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| Book Launch  |  | "Development Communication Sourcebook: Broadening the Boundaries of Communication"  |
| Date/Time:Â Â | Â | Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 2:00 pm |
| Venue:Â Â | Â | Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)Â |
| Presented by:  |  | Paolo Mefalopulos, Varadarajan Atur, J. P. Singh, Sumir Lal, and Paul Mitchell  |
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| Book Launch  |  | "Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations"    |
| Date/Time:Â | Â | Monday, November 17, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue:Â | Â | Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)Â Â Â |
| Presented by:Â Â | Â | Raymond Fisman |
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| Joint Book Launch |  | "The Impact of Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure" and "Does Private Sector Participation Improve Performance in Electricity and Water Distribution?"    |
| Date/Time:  |  | Thursday, November 13, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue:Â | Â | Auditorium JB1-080 ( 701 18th Street NW) |
| Presented by:  |  | Luis Guasch, Katharina Gassner, Laura Tuck, and Marianne Fay |
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| Book Launch  |  | "Courting Social Justice: Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World"  |
| Date/Time:Â | Â | Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue:Â Â | Â | Auditorium J1-050 (701 18th Street NW)Â |
| Presented by: |  | Varun Gauri, Daniel M. Brinks, Philip Keefer, Mark Tushnet, and Christina Biebesheimer |
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| Book Launch  |  | "China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities" |
| Date/Time: |  | Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue:Â Â | Â | JB1-080 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)Â |
| Presented by:Â Â | Â | C. Fred Bergsten, Charles Freeman, Nicholas Lardy, Derek Mitchell, and Danny Leipziger |
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| Panel Discussion |  | "Domestic Violence: What You May Not Know"  |
| Date/Time:  |  | Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue:Â Â | Â | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)Â |
| Presented by:  |  | Aulikki H. Kuusela,Helen Hall, Patricia Romano McGraw, Joan Meier, Patricia Hoff, and Phillip Hay |
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| Book Launch |  | "Can Russia Compete?: Enhancing Productivity and Innovation in a Globalizing World" |
| Date/Time:  |  | Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue:Â Â | Â | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)Â |
| Presented by:Â Â | Â | Raj Desai, Itzhak Goldberg, Mark Dutz, Anders Aslund, and Fernando Montes-Negret |
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| Book Launch |  | "For Protection & Promotion: The Design and Implementation of Effective Safety Nets"  |
| Date/Time:  |  | Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 12:00 pm  |
| Venue:Â Â | Â | I 2-250 (1850 I "Eye" Street NW)Â Â |
| Presented by:  |  | Margaret Grosh,H.E. Ato Mekonnen Mnayazewal, Diego Molano Aponte, Rakesh Nangia,Shanta Devarajan, andRobert Holzmann  |
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| Special Event |  | Domestic Violence Awareness Month - "Partnering to Prevent Domestic Abuse"sponsored by The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and Inter-American Development Bank |
| Date/Time:  |  | Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 3:00 pm  |
| Venue:Â Â | Â | Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H Street NW)Â |
| Presented by:  |  | Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright;Ngozi N. Okonjo-Iweala |
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| Panel Discussion |  | Dealing with Low Probability-High Consequence Events: A Behavioral Economics of Risk Presentation |
| Date/Time: |  | Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | Eugene H. Black Auditorium (600 19th Street NW)Â Â |
| Presented by:  |  | Daniel Kahneman, Howard Kunreuther, Justin Yifu Lin, and Apurva Sanghi |
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| Book Launch | Â | "Environmental Health and Child Survival: Epidemiology, Economics, Experience" |
| Date/Time: |  | Monday, September 22, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | I1-200 (1850 I "Eye" Street NW)Â |
| Presented by: |  | Anjali Acharya, Mikko Paunio, Shantayanan Devarajan, Paul Epstein, Jaehyang So, and Warren Evans |
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| Panel Discussion |  | Flying under the Radar: Pentacostalism in South Africa and its Influence on Social and Economic Development |
| Date/Time: |  | Monday, September 8, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue:Â | Â | MC13-121 (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H Street NW) |
| Presented by: |  | Katherine Marshall, Peter Berger, Ann Bernstein, and James Davison Hunter |
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| Book Launch |  | Youth at Risk - a joint launch of two youth-focused publications  |
| Date/Time: |  | Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 12:30 pm |
| Venue: | Â | I 2-250 (1850 I "Eye" Street NW) |
| Presented by: |  | Pamela Cox, Joy Phumaphi, Ariel Fiszbein, Wendy Cunningham, Sophie Naudeau, and Chingboon Lee |
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| Panel Discussion |  | Climate Change and Disasters - Risk and Policy |
| Date/Time: |  | Thursday, September 11, 2008, 2:00 pm |
| Venue:Â | Â | Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H Street NW)Â |
| Presented by: |  | William Nordhaus, Freeman Dyson, and Apurva Sanghi |
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| Film Screening | Â | "Botswana: The President's Tour" (By invitation only) |
| Date/Time: | Â | Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 6:30 pm |
| Venue: | Â | Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H Street NW) |
| Presented by: |  | His Excellency Festus Mogae, Obiageli Ezekwesili, Bernadette Paolo, Edith Grace Ssempala, and Pat Younge |
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| Panel Discussion | Â | "Fertility Regulation Behaviors and Their Costs: Contraception and Unintended Pregnancies in Africa and Eastern Europe & Central Asia" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 3:00 PM |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Elizabeth Lule, John May, Michael Vlassoff, and Phillip Hay |
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| Film Screening | Â | "Africa Investment Horizons" by Carol Pineau |
| Date/Time: | Â | Monday, July 7, 2008, 1:00 PM |
| Venue: | Â | Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H St NW) |
| Presented by: | Â | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Carol Pineau |
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| Panel Discussion | Â | "New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Thursday, June 26, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Steven Durlauf, Shanta Devarajan, and Laurie Harting |
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| Panel Discussion | Â | "Global Democracy: The Struggle for Political and Civil Rights in the 21st Century" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | JB1-080 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Didier Jacobs, Ann Florini, Amar Bhattacharya, and John Garrison |
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| Panel Discussion | Â | "Striking a Balance: Work, Family, Life" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Robert Drago, Helen Diaz, Geremie Sawadogo, Khaled F. Sherif, and Ann Jeannette Glauber |
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| Grand Opening Celebration | Â | InfoShop Reopens after Renovations |
| Date/Time: | Â | Monday, June 23, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | InfoShop (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | World Bank InfoShop |
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| Book Launch | Â | "World Trade Indicators" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Rakesh Nangia, Ngozi N. Okonjo-Iweala, Roumeen Islam, and Gianni Zanini |
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| Book Launch | Â | "Broadcasting, Voice, and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 10:00 am |
| Venue: | Â | 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 | Â | "Terrorism, Economic Development and Political Openness" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Monday, June 16, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H St NW) |
| Presented by: | Â | Francis Fukuyama, Philip Keefer, Norman Loayza, and Sarah Cliffe |
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| Panel Discussion | Â | "Education - The Right Response to Child Labor" (for World Day Against Child Labor) |
| Date/Time: | Â | Thursday, June 12, 2008, 1:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | 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 | Â | "Prospects for Trade Integration through Unilateral Reforms and International Agreements"Â |
| Date/Time: | Â | Thursday, June 12, 2008, 10:30 am |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Gianni Zanini, Jeffrey Schott, Arvind Panagariya, Bernard Hoekman, Pablo de la Flor (via videoconference), and Sherry Stephenson |
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| Presentation | Â | Health and Fragile States Network (studies on aid effectiveness in transition, and health and state-building) |
| Date/Time: | Â | Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 12:30 pm |
| Venue: | Â | MC13-121 (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H St NW) |
| Presented by: | Â | Jack Eldon, Olga Bornemisza, Petra Vergeer, and Julian Schweitzer |
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| Publication Launch | Â | "Business and Poverty: Opening Markets to the Poor" (June issue of Development Outreach magazine) |
| Date/Time: | Â | Monday, June 9, 2008, 12:30 pm |
| Venue: | Â | Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H St NW) |
| Presented by: | Â | 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 | Â | "New Frontiers of Social Policy - Inclusive States, Equity and Assets"Â |
| Date/Time: | Â | Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | JB1-080 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | 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 | Â | "Strategic Environmental Assessment for Policies - An Instrument for Good Governance" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | 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 | Â | "Hospital Performance in Brazil: The Search for Excellence" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Jerry La Forgia, Julian Schweitzer, Maureen Lewis, Mukesh Chawla, John Briscoe, and Robert Murray |
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| Panel Discussion | Â | "Bribery and Extortion: Undermining Business, Governments, and Security" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Thursday, May 22, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Alexandra Wrage, Lisa Bhansali, and Pascale Helene Dubois |
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| Panel Discussion | Â | The World Bank Group's Transport Business Strategy for 2008-2012 |
| Date/Time: | Â | Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | 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 | Â | "Parliaments as Peacebuilders in Conflict-Affected Countries" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 12:00pm |
| Venue: | Â | I 2-250 (1850 I "Eye" Street NW) |
| Presented by: | Â | Edith Grace Ssempala, Rick Stapenhurst, Rasheed Draman, and by videoconference: Lord John Alderdice, William Shija, and Niall Johnston |
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| Book Launch | Â | "The World Bank's Commitment to HIV/AIDS in Africa" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | 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 | Â | "Queen Aishah" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | JB1-080 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Queen Aishah, Freddi Vernell, and Lisa Lanham |
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| Film Screening | Â | "As We Forgive" directed by Laura Waters Hinson |
| Date/Time: | Â | Thursday, May 8, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H St NW) |
| Presented by: | Â | Laura Waters Hinson and Laura Bailey |
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| Symposium and Exhibition Opening | Â | "Borderless Captivity: Exploitation and Human Trafficking" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Wednesday, May 7, 2008, 12:30 pm |
| Venue: | Â | Preston Auditorium (World Bank Main Complex, 1818 H St NW) |
| Photography 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 | Â | "Knowledge and Innovation for Competitiveness in Brazil" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Thursday, May 1, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Alberto Rodriguez, Ariel Fiszbein, John Briscoe, Vinod Thomas, Robin Horn, and Bruno Laporte |
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| Book Launch | Â | "The World Bank: From Reconstruction to Development to Equity" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Katherine Marshall, John Clark, Chad Dobson, and Werner Kiene |
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| Book Launch | Â | "The Persistence of Poverty: Why the Economics of the Well-Off Can't Help the Poor" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Monday, April 28, 2008, 12:30 pm |
| Venue: | Â | JB1-080 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Charles Karelis, Steven Pearlstein, Daniel Hardy, and Deepa Narayan |
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| Panel Discussion | Â | "Promoting Better Work in Global Supply Chains" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Friday, April 25, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Ros Harvey, Dottie Hatcher, and Bruce Moats |
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| Book Launch | Â | "The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and The Quest for a Global Nation" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Strobe Talbott,John van Oudenaren, Daniel Kaufmann, andMichele De Nevers |
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| Panel Discussion | Â | "Services Trade Reform and International Negotiations" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Friday, April 18, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Roumeen Islam,Gianni Zanini, Aaditya Mattoo, Christina Bliss, Mario Marconini (by videoconference), Dominique Njinkeu and Uri Dadush |
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| Seminar | Â | "Growth Strategies and Urbanization: Insights from the Commission on Growth and Development" |
| Date/Time: |  | Thursday, April 17, 2008, 8:45 am |
| Venue:Â | Â | Preston Auditorium (1818 H Street NW) |
| Presented by: | Â | Michael Spence, Danny Leipziger, Graeme P. Wheeler et al. |
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| Book Launch | Â | "The Practice of Fiscal Federalism: Comparative Perspectives" |
| Date/Time: |  | Monday, April 14, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Justin Yifu Lin,Anwar Shah, Adrienne Cheasty, and Rakesh Nangia |
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| Panel Discussion and Launch | Â | "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:Â | Â | 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: | Â | G7-161 (1776 G Street NW) |
| Presented by: | Â | Luis Lugo and Katherine Marshall |
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| Book Launch | Â | "Remittances and Development: Lessons from Latin America" |
| Date/Time: |  | Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 2:00 pm |
| Venue:Â | Â | I1-200 (1850 I "Eye" Street NW) |
| Presented by: | Â | Pamela Cox, Pablo Fajnzylber, J. Humberto Lopez, Susan Minushkin,
 and Sergio Jellinek |
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| Book Launch | Â | "Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population" |
| Date/Time: |  | Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 12:30 pm |
| Venue:Â | Â | JB1-080 (701 18th Street NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Matthew Connelly and Varun Gauri |
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| Film Screening | Â | "Magic Radio: The FM Revolution in Niger" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Thursday, April 3, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Mark Nelson,Kreszentia Duer, andAjay Tejasvi |
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| Book Launch | Â | "Implementing theExtractive Industries Transparency Initiative: Applying Early Lessons from the Field" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | 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 | Â | "Blood Diamond" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 12:30 pm |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
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| Presentation | Â | "Understanding the Arab World:Oman's Unique Journey toward Modernization" |
| Date/Time: |  | Monday, March 31, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue:Â | Â | JB1-080 (701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Linda Pappas Funsch,Iouri Bairatchnyi,Rebiha Hacene-Djaballah, and Zoubida Allaoua |
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| Book Launch | Â | "China Urbanizes: Consequences, Strategies, and Policies" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Friday, March 28, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th Street NW,corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Vikram Nehru, Shahid Yusuf, Zmarak Shalizi, Yukon Huang, and Pieter Bottelier |
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| Panel Discussion | Â | 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: | Â | Uri Dadush,Demetrios Papademetriou,Jason DeParle, andDilip Ratha |
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| Film Screening | Â | "Slum Survivors" (part of the Environmental Film Festival) |
| Date/Time: |  | Monday, March 17, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | Eugene H. Black Auditorium ( 600 19th Street N.W.) |
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| Presentation | Â | " Will God - or Man - Play Dice with Nature?: The Tail of Catastrophic Climate Change" |
| Date/Time: |  | Thursday, March 13, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | JB1-080 (701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Martin Weitzman, Richard Posner, John Seo, Thomas Schelling, Apurva Sanghi |
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| Presentation | Â | "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: | Â | JB1-080 (701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Chris West, Pradeep Mitra, Caitlin Simpson, Dennis Ojima |
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| Book Launch | Â | "India: The Emerging Giant" |
| Date/Time: |  | Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 3:00 pm |
| Venue:Â | Â | JB1-080 (701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Arvind Panagariya,Dhanendra Kumar, Adarsh Kishore, Praful Patel, Vinod Thomas |
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| Book Launch | Â | "Women in Nation-Building" |
| Date/Time: |  | Monday, March 3, 2008, 2:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW, corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Markus Kostner, Cheryl Benard, Ian Bannon, Pia Peeters |
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| Presentation | Â | "Africa Environment Day" |
| Date/Time:Â | Â | Monday, March 3, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | Eugene H. Black Auditorium ( 600 19th Street N.W.) |
| Presented by: | Â | H.E. Amina Salum Ali, Beldina Auma, William Godfrey, Herbert Acquay, Walter Lusigi, John Mulaa |
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| Film Screening | Â | "An Inconvenient Truth" |
| Date/Time: | Â | Thursday, February 28, 2008, 12:00 pm |
| Venue: | Â | Â J1-050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
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| Book Launch | Â | "Financing Energy Efficiency:Â Lessons from Brazil, China, India, and Beyond" |
| Date/Time: |  | Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 9:00am |
| Venue:Â | Â | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Robert P. Taylor, Chandrasekar Govindarajalu, Jeremy Levin, Anke S. Meyer, Todd M. Johnson, Jas Singh |
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| Book Launch | Â | "Socioeconomic Differences in HNP in Developing Countries" |
| Date/Time: |  | Monday, February 25, 2008, 12:00pm |
| Venue: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | 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:Â | Â | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | 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: | Â | J building (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Jiwei Lou, Jim Adams, Shuilin Wang, Teresa Ter-Minassian, Martin Ravallion, Carlos Alberto Braga |
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| Book Launch | Â | "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:Â | Â | 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 | Â | "Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope" |
| Date/Time: |  | Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 12:00pm |
| Venue: | Â | Eugene Black Auditorium (600 19th St. NW) |
| Presented by: | Â | Jenna Bush, Erika Mae Lorenzana |
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| Book Launch | Â | "From Warsaw to Wherever" |
| Date/Time: |  | Thursday, January 24, 2008, 12:30pm |
| Venue:Â | Â | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Zygmunt Nagorski, Frannie Leautier, Phil Hay |
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| Book Launch | Â | "Tackling the Climate Change - Urban Nexus" |
| Date/Time: |  | Wednesday, January 23, 2008, 3:00pm |
| Venue:Â | Â | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | 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: | Â | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
| Presented by: | Â | Elizabeth Littlefield, Anjali Kumar, Marilou Uy, Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Peer Stein, Hanns-Martin Hagen, Michael Barr |
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| Book Launch | Â | "Transforming Government, Empowering Communities, and Building the Knowledge Economy" |
| Date/Time: |  | Tuesday, January 15, 2008, 12:00pm |
| Venue: | Â | 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 | Â | "Adapting to the Changing Climate in the Bank on Climate Change" |
| Date/Time: |  | Wednesday, January 9, 2008, 3:30pm |
| Venue: | Â | 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:Â | Â | J1-050 (701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.) |
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