World Bank event: From Evidence to Policy: Human Development Perspectives Series is launched on Monday, Feb. 28 at 12:30pm in J1-050 Auditorium

World Bank event: From Evidence to Policy: Human Development Perspectives Series is launched on Monday, Feb. 28 at 12:30pm in J1-050 Auditorium

Monday, February 28, 2011, 12:30-1:30 PM
Auditorium J1-050, World Bank J Building, 18th Street and Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC

RSVP infoshopevents@worldbank.org

*Light lunch will be served*

Please join us for the launch of the World Bank’s Human Development
Network’s new Human Development Perspectives series, which
presents key research in the field of human development. The series
will help developing countries and their partners get more mileage
and impact out of their investments in human capital.
During the launch, discussions will focus on the first two books in the
series. Making Schools Work examines how better accountability
processes in 11 developing countries resulted in increased enrollment,
student learning and completion rates. No Small Matter reviews the
evidence on early childhood development and its links to poverty and
shocks. The launch will occur during the Human Development
Network’s biennial HD Forum.

CHAIR:
Ariel Fiszbein
Chief Economist, Human Development Network, World Bank
Mr. Fiszbein is Chief Economist for the Human Development Network at the World Bank. He joined the World Bank in 1991, where he started his career as Country Economist for Colombia. He has held several positions, including Coordinator of the poverty reduction team at the World Bank Institute, Coordinator of the World Bank’s program in human development for the southern cone countries in Latin America, Lead Economist in the Human Development Department for Latin America and the Caribbean, and Adviser to the World Bank’s Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. In the latter position, for several years he coordinated the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) initiative. He has published extensively on a range of social policy issues. He has taught at the Universidad de San Andres in Buenos Aires and was the Secretary of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) between 1998 and 2005.
PRESENTER:
Paul Gertler
Director, Institute of Business and Economic Research, University of California, Berkeley
Mr. Gertler is the Li Ka Shing Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Business and Economic Research at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Chair of the Board of Commissioners of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation. From 2004 to 2007, he was the Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Human Development Network, where he led the effort to strengthen the evidence base for the World Bank’s policy advice on what works to improve human development and reduce poverty, a major part of which was to institutionalize impact evaluation into World Bank operations. Mr. Gertler holds the Kenneth Arrow Award in Health Economics (1996); Academic Career Leadership Award, US National Institutes on Health (1998); and a Global Development Network Award (2002). He has also published extensively in scientific journals articles and books on a wide variety of subjects.
MODERATOR:
Phil Hay
Communications Adviser, Human Development Network, World Bank
Mr. Hay, Communications Adviser for the World Bank’s Human Development Network, designs and leads global and regional media and outreach campaigns to deepen the impact and profile of the World Bank’s work in education, health, social protection and labor, and other human development priorities. A former Special Correspondent and U.S. West Coast Correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation , Mr. Hay is a frequent chair and moderator of global health, education, and development summits such as the Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness; the International Health Partnership country meetings in Zambia, Mali, and Belgium; numerous ministerial panels on Education, Health, Nutrition, and Population, Post-Conflict and the Rule of Law; and successive STOP-TB summits in the U.S., India, and Brazil.
EDITOR
Harold H. Alderman
No Small Matter
Consultant, Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Alderman joined the World Bank in 1991 in the agricultural research department. He has spent much of his career conducting research on the economics of nutrition and food policy. In particular, he has written a number of papers indicating the long-term consequences of malnutrition in early childhood. He has also worked in the area of social protection, serving as social protection advisor in the Africa region from 2006 to 2009.
AUTHORS
Barbara Bruns
Making Schools Work
Lead Economist, Latin America and Caribbean, World Bank
Ms. Bruns is Lead Economist in the Latin America and Caribbean region of the World Bank, responsible for education. She is currently co-managing several impact evaluations of teacher pay for performance reforms in Brazil and is lead author of Achieving World Class Education in Brazil: The Next Agenda (2010). As the first manager of the $14 million Spanish Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF) at the World Bank from 2007 to 2009, Ms. Bruns oversaw the launch of more than 50 rigorous impact evaluations of health, education, and social protection programs. She has also served on the Education Task Force appointed by the UN Secretary General in 2003, co-authored the book A Chance for Every Child: Achieving Universal Primary Education by 2015 (2003), and headed the Secretariat of the global Education for All Fast Track Initiative from 2002 to 2004.
Deon Filmer
Making Schools Work
Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank
Mr. Filmer is Lead Economist in the Research Department of World Bank. His research has spanned the areas of education, health, social protection, and poverty, and he has published extensively in these areas. Recent publications include papers on the impact of scholarship programs on school participation in Cambodia; on the roles of poverty, orphanhood, and disability in explaining education inequalities; and on the determinants of fertility behavior. He was a core team member of the World Development Reports in 1995, Workers in an Integrating World , and 2004, Making Services Work for Poor People . His current research focuses on measuring and explaining inequalities in education and health outcomes and evaluating the impact of interventions that aim to increase and promote school participation among the poor (such as conditional cash or food transfers) and interventions that aim to improve education service provision (such as policies to improve the quality of teachers in remote areas).
Harry Anthony Patrinos
Making Schools Work
Lead Education Economist, Human Development Network, World Bank
Mr. Patrinos is Lead Education economist in the Education Department of the World Bank. He specializes in all areas of education, especially school-based management, demand-side financing, and public-private partnerships. He manages the Benchmarking Education Systems for Results program, and leads the Indigenous Peoples, Poverty, and Development research program. He manages impact evaluations in Latin America focusing on school-based management, parental participation, compensatory education, and savings programs. Previous books include Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), Lifelong Learning in the Global Knowledge Economy (2003), Policy Analysis of Child Labor: A Comparative Study (St. Martin’s, 1999), Decentralization of Education: Demand-Side Financing (1997), and Indigenous People and Poverty in Latin America: An Empirical Analysis (Ashgate, 1997).

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