http://info.worldbank.org/etools/bspan/ B-SPAN is a webcasting service that presents World Bank seminars, workshops, and conferences on a variety of sustainable development and poverty reduction issues via streaming video. en-us 2007 The World Bank Group, All Rights Reserved. bspan@worldbank.org bspan@worldbank.org http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2448&EID=1091 On March 31April 2, 2009, the World Bank held Energy Week 2009 in the spirit of gathering field specialists, practitioners and policymakers to discuss energy and development issues. The conference was organized by the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), The Energy and Mining Sector Board and the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP). The objective of this event was to enable leading energy experts to provide and exchange solutions and insights towards the current challenges in global energy issues. B-SPAN Transport Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Tuesday, March 31, 2009 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2448&EID=1091 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2447&EID=1091 On March 31April 2, 2009, the World Bank held Energy Week 2009 in the spirit of gathering field specialists, practitioners and policymakers to discuss energy and development issues. The conference was organized by the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), The Energy and Mining Sector Board and the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP). The objective of this event was to enable leading energy experts to provide and exchange solutions and insights towards the current challenges in global energy issues. B-SPAN Transport Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Tuesday, March 31, 2009 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2447&EID=1091 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2338&EID=1044 Presidency (SDNVP) of the World Bank and Chair of the Energy and Mining Sector Board, Transport Sector Board, and Water Sector Board. Saghir opened the event by explaining that the transport sector has committed over 42 billion dollars in loans since 1996, when the transport strategy was officially endorsed. Saghir said their role was only growing, as the bank had been developing new business strategies to invest in other forms of transport. Sanghir presented an overview of key strategic points including transports crucial role in public health, disease prevention, the environment, and the implantation of new initiatives to reduce the negative effects of geographic isolation. B-SPAN Transport Wednesday, May 21, 2008 Wednesday, May 21, 2008 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2338&EID=1044 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2197&EID=990 In todays globalized world, whether a country is able to move goods quickly, cost effectively and reliably across borders largely determines their degree of inclusion in the global markets. The Logistics Performance Index (LPI) is the first comprehensive tool which measures a countrys logistics performance along its supply chain. Through extensive collaboration with the private sector and a worldwide survey of global freight forwarders and express carriers this report details logistics performance over 150 countries. The event Connecting to Compete Trade Logistics in the Global Economy, presented at the World Bank headquarters on November 7, brought together authors and experts to discuss the report and its relevance and applicability to the global economy. B-SPAN Transport Wednesday, November 07, 2007 Wednesday, November 07, 2007 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2197&EID=990 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2029&EID=939 In developing countries, more than half of populations live at least eight kilometers from the nearest health clinic. 1.2 million people are killed yearly in road accidents, mainly in developing nations. With millions of people around the world streaming into urban centers, transportation is an increasingly important issue for the World Bank. This event, held at the Washington offices of the World Bank on April 17th, 2007, introduced Peter Freemans report ‘A Decade of Action in Transport An Evaluation of World Bank Assistance to the Transport Sector, 19952005 by bringing together four panelists to discuss the topic. B-SPAN Transport Tuesday, April 17, 2007 Tuesday, April 17, 2007 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2029&EID=939 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1277&EID=629 Following the broad session on the impact of infrastructure policies on poverty, this session will focus on two transport projects in Morocco and China. It will explore the impact of rural roads on the Millennium Development Goals and poverty, review the methodologies used, and discuss lessons for scaling up this impact in the countries involved and their applicability to other countries. Two discussants will then take this debate to the next level by placing these examples in a more extensive infrastructure context to review how infrastructure projects generally impact poverty and growth. B-SPAN Transport Thursday, May 27, 2004 Thursday, May 27, 2004 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1277&EID=629 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=992&EID=519 Keynote addresses are presented on the best approaches to meeting the challenges of growing urbanization in developing countries. The experiences of urbanization in the past one hundred years are discussed as well as how lessons learned from this phenomenon may help address issues in rapidly growing urban centers in developing countries. A particular emphasis is put on providing efficient infrastructure. B-SPAN Transport Monday, December 15, 2003 Monday, December 15, 2003 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=992&EID=519 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=925&EID=474 This session addressed issues of infrastructure as a major constraint to reaching B-SPAN Transport Thursday, October 16, 2003 Thursday, October 16, 2003 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=925&EID=474 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=481&EID=227 Professor Peter Rogers of Harvard University Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences provides an overview of the transportation and air pollution problems in Delhi and Beijing in a study conducted with Sumeeta Srinivasan and Karolin Kokaz. Rogers notes that the goals of the analysis are fourfold to put emission standards in perspective in relation to other issues, to show the relative impact on health, to show the need to integrate land use and traffic planning in environmental management, and to show the usefulness of Decision Support models in situations where poor data exists. B-SPAN Transport Friday, March 02, 2001 Friday, March 02, 2001 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=481&EID=227