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=2372&EID=1065 On October 30 and 31, 2008, the World Banks Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network (PREM) hosted the conference Debt Relief and Beyond A World Bank Conference on Debt and Development. The event aimed to address issues of debt and sustainability, drawing on lessons from the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative and the implementation of the Debt Sustainability Framework (DSF) for lowincome countries (LICs). The conference also provided an environment for policy makers, debt managers, and the development community as a whole to discuss the challenges that lie ahead. B-SPAN Debt Relief Thursday, October 30, 2008 Thursday, October 30, 2008 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2372&EID=1065 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2371&EID=1065 On October 30 and 31, 2008, the World Banks Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network (PREM) hosted the conference Debt Relief and Beyond A World Bank Conference on Debt and Development. The event aimed to address issues of debt and sustainability, drawing on lessons from the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative and the implementation of the Debt Sustainability Framework (DSF) for lowincome countries (LICs). The conference also provided an environment for policy makers, debt managers, and the development community as a whole to discuss the challenges that lie ahead. B-SPAN Debt Relief Thursday, October 30, 2008 Thursday, October 30, 2008 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2371&EID=1065 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2287&EID=1019 On April 15 and 16, 2008, the 2008 Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network Conference was held at World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C., to discuss the theme, Inclusive and Sustainable Growth. The Conference included more than 25 sessions on a variety of topics, such as the Banks economic policy, climate change, and good governance, among many others. B-SPAN Debt Relief Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Wednesday, April 16, 2008 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2287&EID=1019 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2276&EID=1019 On April 15 and 16, 2008, the 2008 Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network Conference was held at World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C., to discuss the theme, Inclusive and Sustainable Growth. The Conference included more than 25 sessions on a variety of topics, such as the Banks economic policy, climate change, and good governance, among many others. B-SPAN Debt Relief Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Tuesday, April 15, 2008 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2276&EID=1019 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1910&EID=886 Bringing together students from around the world to learn about the problems of development and how the World Bank approaches them, the External Affairs Department of the Bank sponsored the Global Issues Seminar Series on Development Aid and Debt Relief on September 27, 2006. In this session, presenters spoke about the issues of aid, donors, and debt relief. Herbert Boh, a Communications Officer with the Banks Africa region, chaired the videoconference. B-SPAN Debt Relief Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Wednesday, September 27, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1910&EID=886 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1832&EID=856 Debt relief is one of the prime debates in development assistance today. The World Bank itself, as a lending institution, has agreed to write off the debt owed by many poor countries on development loans. How has debt relief impacted these nations, and why is it necessary? This session of the Global Issues Seminar Series, sponsored by World Bank External Affairs, attempted to answer those questions. The session was chaired by Asli Gurkan, a consultant to External Affairs at the World Bank. Students joined the videoconference from Australian International University, Hiroshima University, Kobe University, Koreas KDI School, Sri Lanka, Tokyo, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. B-SPAN Debt Relief Thursday, May 11, 2006 Thursday, May 11, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1832&EID=856 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1623&EID=786 One of the most prominent issues for outsiders looking in at the World Bank is debt relief. Lowincome countries burdened by large amounts of debt can slow or even reverse growth—ironic, since the debt was likely incurred to boost the economy. In this lecture for the Global Issues Seminar Series, organized by External Affairs of the World Bank and held at the Banks headquarters, experts from the Bank and the IMF examine the paradox of debt, and the debtrelief initiatives aimed at curing their ills. Students from the American University of Beirut, University of Amsterdam, University of Ghana, University of Essex, University of Sussex, University of Sofia, and University of the Sorbonne, joined graduate students from several DCarea universities by videoconference for the seminar. B-SPAN Debt Relief Wednesday, November 23, 2005 Wednesday, November 23, 2005 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1623&EID=786 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=340&EID=159 The question of debt forgiveness for developing countries has generated a great deal of interest in recent years. Eric Neumayer, London School of Economics, presents his crosssectional analysis of debt forgiveness to determine if good governance is rewarded in debt relief programs. His research analyzes factors which may determine allocation of debt forgiveness including a set of indicators that capture different aspects of governance voice and accountability; political instability and violence; government effectiveness; regulatory burden; rule of law; and graft. He uses each indicator in isolation to measure differing aspects of governance and an average of all six to derive a measure of general governance. He also analyzes data on two other groups of variables recipient countries8217; need for debt relief (total GNP, debt service divided by value of exports, and natural log of GDP per capita in purchasing power parity) and political interests of creditors (number of years a country has been a former colony of an OECD country, distance in kilometers between capital city to either New York City, Rotterdam, or Tokyo, and arms imports as a percentage of total imports). B-SPAN Debt Relief Wednesday, September 05, 2001 Wednesday, September 05, 2001 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=340&EID=159