Events

June 7, 2007
Metropolitan Management and Externalities
Speakers: Enid Slack, Director, Institute of Municipal Finance and Governance, Toronto; Ke Fang, Urban Transport Specialist, South Asia, World Bank; Sandra Cointreau, Solid Waste Management Advisor, World Bank. Video and presentations available.

May 22, 2007
Financing Choices and Impact on the Future of Cities
Speakers: Robert P. Inman, Vice Dean and Dir WH Doctoral Program, University of Pennsylvania and Robert D. Ebel, Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Chief Economist, District of Columbia Government. Presentations available.

May 17, 2007
Workshop: China: Framework for Credit-Based Borrowing by Municipal Corporations
Speakers: Keshav Varma, Director, Urban Development, East Asia & Pacific, World Bank; Kamran Khan, Sr. Infrastructure Finance Specialist, East Asia & Pacific, World Bank; Li Zuwei, General Manager, Chongqing Expressway Development Corporation; Judy Kwok-Cheung, Associate Director, Corporate and Infrastructure Ratings, Standards and Poor's, Asia. Video and presentations available.

January 6-8, 2005
Practitioners' Conference on Mobilizing Urban Infrastructure Finance in a Responsible Fiscal Framework: Brazil, China, India, Poland and South Africa
This conference, held in Jaipur, India, addressed different dimensions for reconciliation between fiscal policy and urban infrastructure investment: in policy design, analytical understanding, national and international debt rules, and the politics of policy implementation. India, China, Brazil, Poland, and South Africa shared their experience.
Speakers: World Bank staff and external speakers.
Conference materials, presentations and papers available.