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=2439&EID=1103 On May 28, 2009, the PublicPrivate Infrastructure Advisory Facility and the World Bank Institute held the event Public Partnerships in Infrastructure A Complex and Evolving Universe at the World Bank. The event was chaired by Mark Moseley, Senior Counsel of the Banks PSD, Finance and Infrastructure (LEGPS) division. The presentations for the event came from panelists of the Banks Finance, Economics and Urban Development group (FEU). Senior Economist Katharina Gassner, Financial Officer Andres Londono and Senior Infrastructure Specialist Jeffrey Delmon spoke about their experiences working with PPP models across different regions and sectors. B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Thursday, May 28, 2009 Thursday, May 28, 2009 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2439&EID=1103 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2431&EID=1081 From the worlds middle class to the most vulnerable populations, the financial crisis is predicted to affect millions for the next few years. Aimed at gathering specialists and lead economists to discuss the economic landscape, the World Bank Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network (PREM) convened in its annual PREM Week 2009 conference to exchange ideas about pressing economic issues. Issues discussed were public finance, sustaining poverty reduction, economic competitiveness, and lessons learned from the global financial crisis. The event took place on April 28, 2009 at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Tuesday, April 28, 2009 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2431&EID=1081 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2216&EID=1001 On December 17, 2007, the World Banks Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network and the Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC) hosted a day of workshops at World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC. The event, PREMDEC Brainstorming Meeting on Improving the Delivery of Aid Making Aid More Predictable focused on improving the delivery of aid and making it more predictable. The objective was twofold (1) to take stock of what is known about aid predictability, how predictability of aid flows affects country performance and policies, and countrylevel issues in managing uncertain aid flows and (2) to discuss how the Bank and other donors are contributing to the agenda to improve the reliability of aid resources and which new mechanisms are more promising for ensuring stability of aid. B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Monday, December 17, 2007 Monday, December 17, 2007 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2216&EID=1001 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2213&EID=1001 On December 17, 2007, the World Banks Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network and the Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC) hosted a day of workshops at World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC. The event, PREMDEC Brainstorming Meeting on Improving the Delivery of Aid Making Aid More Predictable focused on improving the delivery of aid and making it more predictable. The objective was twofold (1) to take stock of what is known about aid predictability, how predictability of aid flows affects country performance and policies, and countrylevel issues in managing uncertain aid flows and (2) to discuss how the Bank and other donors are contributing to the agenda to improve the reliability of aid resources and which new mechanisms are more promising for ensuring stability of aid. B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Monday, December 17, 2007 Monday, December 17, 2007 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2213&EID=1001 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2121&EID=961 After its economic meltdown in 1997 due to the East Asia financial crisis, followed by the devastating tsunami in 2004, Indonesia faced its share of difficulties. Yet the country has managed a steady economic recovery over the last 10 years, due in part to the realization that it could restart many parts of its fiscal strategy. In this presentation on July 10, 2007, at World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC, as the Bank released a report titled Spending for Development on Indonesias recent past and future strategies, a panel of experts discussed the reports findings and the outlook for this East Asian country. B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Tuesday, July 10, 2007 Tuesday, July 10, 2007 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2121&EID=961 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2080&EID=952 The World Banks dream may be a world free of poverty, but to accomplish that it must know where poverty lies. Traditionally, poverty assessment is a complicated process that involves many hours of work, but it may be possible to automate the number crunching with the help of carefullydesigned computer programs. In this presentation, Michael Lokshin, Senior Economist for the World Banks Development Economics Research Group, gave an overview of the Automated DEC Poverty Tables (ADePT) software that his team created for analyzing the Banks existing data in a userfriendly way. B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Wednesday, May 23, 2007 Wednesday, May 23, 2007 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2080&EID=952 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2026&EID=937 The Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network serves as a focal point for the World Bank on the issues that drive shared growth. Each year, the network holds a Learning Week, in which the project results are discussed and shared for a wideangle view of the Banks poverty reduction mission. In 2007, PREM decided to instead concentrate on a PREM Day, followed by a week of case studies and smaller breakout sessions. Michael Spence, Chairman of the Commission on Growth and Development, chaired this panel on regional case studies conducted at the Banks headquarters in Washington, DC, on April 16, 2007. B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Monday, April 16, 2007 Monday, April 16, 2007 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2026&EID=937 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2025&EID=937 The Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network serves as a focal point for the World Bank on the issues that drive shared growth. Each year, the network holds a Learning Week, in which the results from projects are discussed and shared for a wideangle view of the Banks poverty reduction mission. In 2007, PREM decided to instead concentrate on a PREM Day, April 16, 2007, followed by a week of case studies and smaller breakout sessions. Antonio Estache, Senior Economic Adviser to the World Bank, introduced the conference, which was conducted at Bank headquarters in Washington, DC. B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Monday, April 16, 2007 Monday, April 16, 2007 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2025&EID=937 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1960&EID=904 On December 13, 2006, external experts and Bank staff gathered at the World Banks main headquarters in Washington, DC for a brownbag lunch organized by the Harmonization and Alignment Unit, to discuss memorandums of understanding (MOUs). The purpose of this discussion was to identify challenges encountered by the World Bank in drawing up, agreeing on, and implementing MOUs and to brainstorm solutions. B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Wednesday, December 13, 2006 Wednesday, December 13, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1960&EID=904 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1902&EID=53 In this podcast, we reach back into the BSPAN archives for one of our most popular events Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, speaks on achieving the Millennium Development Goals and the responsibilities of the donor community B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Tuesday, August 15, 2006 Tuesday, August 15, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1902&EID=53 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1894&EID=53 Development was once thought to be simply a matter of macroeconomics and infrastructure. Today, we know that successful development requires a mix of those factors with knowledge sharing, human development, and technical guidance what economists call building capacity. In this interview from the World Bank Institutes Capacity Matters workshop, Hilary Bowker, former CNN Senior Anchor, and Gobind Nankani, Vice President of the Banks Africa region, discuss the Capacity Development Management Action Plan B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Saturday, July 15, 2006 Saturday, July 15, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1894&EID=53 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1889&EID=875 Harmonization is the process of coordination between donors, allowing them to work together in developing countries without unnecessarily covering one area, or missing another completely. But is this harmonization being used as efficiently as possible, and is it achieving results? In this June 26 World Bank Brown Bag Lunch, sponsored by the Operations Policy and Country Services Department at the Banks headquarters, participants discussed that question and more on this urgent issue. Christopher Hall, Program Coordinator for the Banks Harmonization Group, chaired the lunch. B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Monday, June 26, 2006 Monday, June 26, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1889&EID=875 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1885&EID=874 Good governments are built from good organizations. For the World Bank, the process of strengthening and guiding organizations has been a key part of the development strategy—but it has also been a supremely difficult challenge, with mixed results. On June 28, 2006, the World Bank Institute sponsored a day of workshops and discussions about how to build capacity at the organizational level, titled Capacity Matters ReThinking Organizations. B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Wednesday, June 28, 2006 Wednesday, June 28, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1885&EID=874 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1881&EID=874 Good governments are built from good organizations. For the World Bank, the process of strengthening and guiding organizations has been a key part of the development strategy—but it has also been a supremely difficult challenge, with mixed results. On June 28, 2006, the World Bank Institute sponsored a day of workshops and discussions about how to build capacity at the organizational level, titled Capacity Matters ReThinking Organizations. B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Wednesday, June 28, 2006 Wednesday, June 28, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1881&EID=874 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1801&EID=853 On April 25 and 26, 2006, the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Conference 2006 was convened in Washington, DC, to discuss the theme of Microeconomic and Institutional Foundations of Growth. The conference offered an opportunity to reflect on issues at the heart of the World Banks engagement with clients. The key theme was how to accelerate economic growth and reduce poverty in light of the broadening agreement that economic growth is the basic condition for achieving and sustaining social progress and development. This panel addressed the topic of Field Experiments to Investigate Institutional Designs and Impact, and was chaired by Homi Kharas, Chief Economist for East Asia and the Pacific. B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Wednesday, April 26, 2006 Wednesday, April 26, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1801&EID=853 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1786&EID=851 How can businesses help to develop the markets they enter? How can nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) harness the private sector for development? Can a partnership between companies, governments, and NGOs achieve an effectiveness greater than the sum of its parts? To answer these questions, the World Bank Institute sponsored a conference April 10–11, 2006, on Business, NGOs, and Development Strategic Engagement to Meet the Millennium Development Goals at Bank headquarters. B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Tuesday, April 11, 2006 Tuesday, April 11, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1786&EID=851 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1785&EID=53 Development does not just take place in World Bank projects around the world. It also relies on a network of government, private business, and nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs. Cooperation between these sectors has become increasingly important to development, as it becomes more clear that the problem of global poverty must be fought on many levels and in many different areas. To explore the problem of these partnerships, the World Bank Institute sponsored an April 2006 conference on Business, NGOs, and Government Strategic Engagement to Meet the Millenium Development Goals. B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Monday, May 01, 2006 Monday, May 01, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1785&EID=53 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1780&EID=853 On April 25 and 26, 2006, the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Conference 2006 was convened in Washington, DC, to discuss the theme of Microeconomic and Institutional Foundations of Growth. The conference offered an opportunity to reflect on issues at the heart of the World Banks engagement with clients. The key theme was how to accelerate economic growth and reduce poverty in light of the broadening agreement that economic growth is the basic condition for achieving and sustaining social progress and development. This panel addressed the topic of Moving Out of Poverty Traps From Vicious to Virtuous Poverty Circles. B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Tuesday, April 25, 2006 Tuesday, April 25, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1780&EID=853 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1767&EID=849 Brazil is one of the worlds largest countries, and potentially a powerful economic force. But will the country be able to capitalize on its advantages? In a book launch for From Inside Brazil Development in a Land of Contrasts, the World Banks InfoShop and the Latin American and Caribbean department attempted to answer this question at the Banks headquarters on April 7, 2006. The book lays out why Brazil has not yet been able to achieve growth, and how it may do so in the future, with comments from a panel of experts. B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Friday, April 07, 2006 Friday, April 07, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1767&EID=849 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1753&EID=841 The Enabling Environment for Civic Engagement program is a method for the World Bank to invite input from civil society using a multilateral framework. In this advisory group meeting, chaired by Jeff Thindwa, Coordinator for the Participation and Civic Engagement Group, members of civil society were invited to comment on the current state of affairs between civil society, governments, and the Bank. In this second session of the meeting, held on March 27, 2006, at Bank headquarters, discussion centered on the application of the Association, Resources, Voice, Information, and Negotiation (ARVIN) framework in Mongolia. B-SPAN Country Assistance Strategy Monday, March 27, 2006 Monday, March 27, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1753&EID=841