World Bank Institute Vice President Frannie A. Leautier gave a presentation on “Cities in a Globalizing World: Governance, Performance and Sustainability” at the Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy and Management in Seoul on November 7, 2006. A distinguished audience at the TDLC from organizations such as JBIC, JICA and ADBI joined the seminar via videoconference and participated in a question and answer session.
On October 29 Professor Jin Park from the Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy and Management chaired an extremely successful GDLN event which facilitated discussion between good governance and anti-corruption experts from South Korea, Australia, Singapore, Washington (World Bank), Japan, China, Mongolia, Philippines, Timor Leste, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Indonesia (ASEAN Secretariat).
Students from Kobe University’s Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS) had the chance today to discuss the current state of global development with Mr. Vinay Bhargava, the World Bank’s Director of Operations and International Affairs, in a videoconference between the university and the TDLC in Tokyo.
On Thursday July 11 the TDLC hosted the first of a series of GDLN-based discussions on identifying what does, and what does not, work in tackling corruption.
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