URU, Alm.del - 2009-10 - Bilag 149: Invitation til seminar om Verdensbanken den 29. marts 2010

Rethinking the World BankMonday, 29 March 2010, 14.00-16.45Danish Institute for International StudiesMain AuditoriumStrandgade 71, ground floor, 1401 Copenhagen KBackground“The World Bank is advancing multiple reforms to promote inclusiveness, innovation, efficiency,effectiveness, and accountability. It is expanding cooperation with the UN, the IMF, othermultilateral development banks, donors, civil society, and foundations. But the effort must gofurther to realize a World Bank that represents the international economic realities of the 21stCentury, recognizes the role and responsibility of growing stakeholders, and provides a larger voicefor developing countries” (World Bank, 2010).These years are unusual ones for the World Bank. In the course of just two years the globaleconomic recession has more or less eradicated the hard-won achievements made in terms ofpoverty reduction over the preceding two decades. This in itself constitutes a major challenge forthe World Bank in the coming years. But more fundamentally the impact of the global economiccrisis on the poorest people in the world’s poorest countries raises some very uncomfortablequestions for the World Bank. Should the commitment to a model of ‘development by opennessand integration with the global economy’ be maintained? To what extent do the difficultiesexperienced by this model mean that the World Bank self-proclaimed status as a ‘knowledge bank’is threatened? Can the World Bank’s governance structure be reformed to reflect the realities of apost-crisis international economic order? Will the World Bank be able to contribute to moreefficient and effective development assistance in the future? Or will it gradually becomemarginalized, as regional development banks and bilateral aid agencies adopt a more diverse arrayof agendas?SpeakersRobert Wade,Professor, LSENgaire Woods,Director, University of OxfordMorten Ougaard,Professor, CBSJakob Vestergaard,Project Researcher, DIISProgrammeMore details about the seminar are available on ourwebsite.Practical InformationThe seminar will be held inEnglish.Participation isfree of charge,butregistration is required.Please use ouronline registration formno later thanFriday, 26 March 2010 at 12.00 noon.