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	Name	Description	Released	Price
1	VideoDisclosure of Project and Contract Information in PPPs	This webinar presents a review of current practices on the disclosure of information on PPP projects and contracts, and discusses the desired features of a framework for proactive disclosure in PPPs. Many countries have been trying to implement freedom-of	7/15/14	Free	View In iTunes
2	VideoLearning from the Vietnam Urban Upgrading Program	National urban upgrading in Vietnam evolved as a result of economic and political reforms and locally driven experiences. Rapid economic growth following the 1986 Doi Moi reforms was followed by rapid urbanization. In 1990, Vietnam’s urban population wa	7/8/14	Free	View In iTunes
3	VideoUniversal Health Coverage and the Challenge of Informal Employment: Lessons from Developing Countries	The presentation will review existing approaches and available policy options to improve access to health care services and financial protection against health shocks for informal-sector workers (ISWs). Findings from some country cases based on published	7/7/14	Free	View In iTunes
4	VideoImproving City Management through Data and Analytics	This webinar will showcase examples of how city governments leverage data and analytics to more efficiently deliver services, engage citizens and inform public policy. It will discuss implications to open data and innovation, citizen engagement, and accou	7/7/14	Free	View In iTunes
5	VideoBuilding a holistic NAMA MRV	The webinar will provide an overview of how default emission factors developed as part of a standardized baseline can build the foundation of an easy-to-apply MRV framework using only the information on the area over which the NAMA intervention has taken	6/18/14	Free	View In iTunes
6	VideoLa Base de Datos de Salud Global y Derechos Humanos	La Base de Datos de Salud Global y Derechos Humanos ("Global Health and Human Rights Database" en inglés) es una base de datos de leyes de alrededor del mundo en materia de salud y derechos humanos. Con la colaboración de una red mundial de socios--incl	6/17/14	Free	View In iTunes
7	VideoGlobal Health and Human Rights Database	The Global Health and Human Rights Database is a free online database of law from around the world relating to health and human rights. With the collaboration of a worldwide network of partners—including NGOs, academics and private researchers—the dat	6/17/14	Free	View In iTunes
8	VideoLecciones de las intervenciones del nivel Nacional en vivienda social y mejoramiento Integral de Barrios en Colombia	Las políticas nacionales de vivienda asequible y mejoramiento integral de barrios en Colombia están construidas sobre el éxito de las experiencias locales para la pobreza urbana, especialmente aquellas de Medellín y Bogotá. El enfoque comprehensivo d	6/3/14	Free	View In iTunes
9	VideoIntroduction to Smart Cities	This webinar will introduce the concept, framework, and key components of a smart city strategy. It will demonstrate through practical examples the pros and cons of two main approaches to smart cities - top-down approach and bottom-up approach. It will al	5/29/14	Free	View In iTunes
10	VideoAção de planejamento e gestão sistêmicos com foco na saude	Esta ação é uma iniciativa que visa reduzir a judicialização da saúde através de diálogo entre os diversos atores dos Sistemas de Justiça e de Saúde, com a instituição de comitês locais. A aplicação desta experiência resultou uma redução	5/22/14	Free	View In iTunes
11	VideoPrivate Sector led off-grid energy access	Energy access is a key enhancing factor of poverty alleviation in most of the developing world. Extending grid infrastructure in rural areas is particularly difficult due to financial, commercial, regulatory as well as geographical constraints. This webin	5/15/14	Free	View In iTunes
12	VideoCarbon tax – How can a tax shift support low emission development while building public acceptance?	There is a growing base of evidence that a carbon tax, if well designed, can be a cost-effective way to reduce GHG emissions and promote low emission development. While more and more countries are pursuing such tax shifts (with other taxes being lowered),	5/15/14	Free	View In iTunes
13	VideoExternal Assistance for Urban Finance Development	This webinar assesses the overall rapidly growing financing needs of cities in developing countries and demonstrates that external finance, and in particular international aid, has stagnated at relatively low levels, and moreover has been highly concentra	5/15/14	Free	View In iTunes
14	VideoIndia's National Policies to Scale up Slum Upgrading	This webinar will present India’s unique experience in scaling up slum upgrading and affordable housing from projects to national programs and policies in the past decade. Today, India is a major global economic player in world with rapid economic and p	5/14/14	Free	View In iTunes
15	VideoIntroduction to Principles and Guidelines for Better Governance in Hospitals	The healthcare sector faces major challenges resulting in inefficiencies and ineffective delivery of quality healthcare. . This is manifested in the dissatisfaction of many stakeholders, especially patients. Dissatisfaction among stakeholders in hospital	5/13/14	Free	View In iTunes
16	VideoUnderstanding the FCPF Carbon Fund’s Methodological Frmwrk	n December 2013, the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Carbon Fund's Methodological Framework was approved by Carbon Fund Participants. It will guide the development of large-scale REDD+ programs aimed to protect tropical forests and enhance the l	5/8/14	Free	View In iTunes
17	VideoGovernment Support to PPPs	Governments have supported PPPs through a variety of instruments such as equity, debt, grants, guarantees, and contractual clauses pertaining to risk allocation. Many of these instruments have been used frequently or even consistently in PPPs in developin	5/6/14	Free	View In iTunes
18	VideoWorld Development Report 2015: Mente y Cultura	El Informe sobre el Desarrollo Mundial 2015 se basa en tres ideas principales: la racionalidad acotada, que limita la capacidad de los individuos de procesar información y los lleva a utilizar reglas intuitivas; interdependencia social, que lleva a las p	4/16/14	Free	View In iTunes
19	VideoPPP Contract Management: Experiences in Latin America	Since PPP programs in Latin America began twenty years ago, the selection and structuring of PPP projects have improved substantially. However, contract management (monitoring of contractual obligations, renegotiation, dispute resolution, and contract ter	4/16/14	Free	View In iTunes
20	VideoPublic Bus Service Modernization	Fundamental changes are taking place in how mobility issues are viewed in developing cities. Increasing income, changing city size and structure, and changing behavioral patterns have all contributed to that change in thinking. Given this trend, a new par	4/14/14	Free	View In iTunes
21	VideoEl proceso de judicialización de la salud en Chile	El sistema de salud chileno es un sistema mixto, y ha enfrentado procesos de judicialización principalmente en materia de los seguros privados de salud, a partir de la reforma al sistema del año 2005. Las acciones judiciales han aumentado progresivament	4/14/14	Free	View In iTunes
22	VideoRural-Urban Dynamics and the Millennium Development Goals	Abstract: Urbanization matters for the MDGs in at least a couple of ways: (i) the benefits of agglomeration, as cities have the potential to generate higher living standards for all their residents (not just migrants), and (ii) the benefits of scale econo	4/14/14	Free	View In iTunes
23	VideoEngaging the Private Sector in Fast Start NAMAs	The understanding of the NAMA concept is still evolving and there is as of to date relatively little on the ground experience with turning the concept into concrete actions. NAMAs are well suited as holistic programmes but their success will be strongly i	4/9/14	Free	View In iTunes
24	VideoFinancing Slum Upgrading: Lessons from Experience	The successful growth of Cities and Metropolitan areas is closely linked to addressing the issue of slums. First is the need to integrate present-day slums into the urban fabric by ensuring economic, physical, environmental and social connectivity with th	4/8/14	Free	View In iTunes
25	VideoGoverning & Financing Metropolitan Areas in the Developing World	The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy publication Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries (Bahl, Linn and Wetzel, editors 2013) provides a unique entry point to engage cities who are addressing the complex task of financing infrastructur	4/8/14	Free	View In iTunes
26	VideoMetropolitan Cities in the National Fiscal and Institutional Structure	The Webinar will address the important yet neglected issue of how urban public finance in developing counties are situated in the broader national fiscal, institutional and political framework. The details and dynamics of this framework affect the ability	4/7/14	Free	View In iTunes
27	VideoSupply Chain and the Global Trading System	The revolution in manufacturing – increasingly known as ‘global value chains‘ – has changed the world of trade policy as much as it has changed the global industrial landscape. This webinar discusses new research suggesting that border management	4/7/14	Free	View In iTunes
28	VideoGrant Financing of Metropolitan Areas: Principles and Practices	In the new information age in the globalized and interconnected world, metropolitan areas hold the key to the future prosperity and growth of nations. This presentation takes a closer look at grant-financing regimes faced by metropolitan areas and their r	4/7/14	Free	View In iTunes
29	VideoMetropolitan Public Finance: The Case of Mumbai	The presentation begins by providing a backdrop of the status and nature of urbanization in India. It then underlines the unique position of the Mumbai region as an economic and financial powerhouse in Maharashtra’s and India’s economy. In particular	4/4/14	Free	View In iTunes
30	VideoLeçons du programme “Villes sans Bidonvilles” au Maroc	Ce webinaire présentera l'expérience du Maroc en matière de politique nationale de résorption des quartiers précaires. L'urbanisation rapide du Maroc depuis l'indépendance en 1956 a contribuéàla croissance des établissements informels. La populat	4/4/14	Free	View In iTunes
31	VideoLessons from the “Cities Without Slums” Program in Morocco	This webinar will present Morocco’s experience in scaling up slum upgrading and affordable housing from projects to national programs in the new millennium. Morocco’s rapid urbanization since independence in 1956 has met with insufficient employment a	4/4/14	Free	View In iTunes
32	VideoLa gestión de contratos APP: Algunas lecciones aprendidas de los APP de Latinoamérica	El programa APP en Latinoamérica se inició hace 20 años. La selección y estructuración de los proyectos APP han mejorado sustancialmente, sin embargo, la gestión de los contratos (supervisión de obligaciones contractuales, renegociaciones, solució	4/4/14	Free	View In iTunes
33	VideoMetropolitan Governance and Finance in Sao Paulo	With a population of 11.2 million residents, Sao Paulo is the largest City in Brazil, the largest city in the Southern Hemisphere and the world's seventh largest city by population. The presentation will provide a sketch of Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region's	4/4/14	Free	View In iTunes
34	VideoFiscal Management of PPP Commitments and PPP Risks	Any proper institutional framework for designing and implementing PPP projects requires some kind of arrangements for managing their fiscal consequences. It is not simply a matter of fiscal responsibility, but also a matter of credible commitment by the g	4/4/14	Free	View In iTunes
35	VideoWorld Development Report 2015 - Mind & Culture	The World Development Report 2015 is based on three main ideas: bounded rationality, which limit individuals’ ability to process information and lead them to rely on rules of thumb; social interdependence, which leads people to care about other people a	4/3/14	Free	View In iTunes
36	VideoImproving Health Service Delivery in Uganda: A Multistakeholder Approach	As several nations race to attain Universal HealthCoverage and the Millennium Development Goals related to health, stakeholders have begun exploring innovative ways of accelerating improvements in healthcare service delivery. One of those countries is Uga	4/3/14	Free	View In iTunes
37	VideoDerecho a la Salud en Perú	El gobierno del Perú ha tomado la decisión de implementar un conjunto de medidas que tienen como objetivo alcanzar la cobertura universal en salud de manera que, progresivamente, toda la población se encuentre protegida, con servicios e intervenciones	4/3/14	Free	View In iTunes
38	VideoMaking Property Tax Work in Metropolitan Cities	This presentation is designed to give an overview of some of the issues around the use of land and property taxes by metro cities in the developing world. It is clear from the research undertaken by McCluskey and Franzsen that the use of land and property	4/3/14	Free	View In iTunes
39	VideoMetropolitan Infrastructure and Capital Finance	This webinar presentation is based on a study by Gregory K. Ingram, Zhi Liu, and Karin Brandt (2013), “Metropolitan Infrastructure and Capital Finance,” which is published in Roy W. Bahl, Johannes F. Linn, and Deborah L. Wetzel (ed.), Financing Metrop	3/25/14	Free	View In iTunes
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39	VideoMetropolitan Infrastructure and Capital Finance	This webinar presentation is based on a study by Gregory K. Ingram, Zhi Liu, and Karin Brandt (2013), “Metropolitan Infrastructure and Capital Finance,” which is published in Roy W. Bahl, Johannes F. Linn, and Deborah L. Wetzel (ed.), Financing Metrop	3/25/14	Free	View In iTunes
40	VideoJudicialización Derecho a la Protección de salud en Mexico	En México desde 1983 el derecho a la protección de la salud es un derecho constitucional, pero es hasta la reforma en materia de derechos humanos de 2011, en que empieza a haber instrumentos más efectivos para su judicialización. México ha avanzado	3/24/14	Free	View In iTunes
41	VideoMetropolitan Public Finance: An Overview	Large metropolitan cities differ from other cities. Metropolitan public finance is also different because such cities spend more and differently than other cities and usually raise more of the revenue that they spend. Cities, like the governance structure	3/13/14	Free	View In iTunes
42	VideoMeasuring, Reporting&Verification	The important role in the on-going climate negotiations, especially in the context of new instruments like NAMAs. The goal of MRV systems is to develop a framework for evaluation that is consistent, systematic and transparent. While emission reductions c	2/5/14	Free	View In iTunes
43	VideoLocal Non-Property Revenues	Effective fiscal decentralization requires meaningful levels of revenue autonomy at the sub-national level. This webinar will focus on the current theory and practice of tax assignments to subnational governments. Examples of best practice of tax assignme	1/14/14	Free	View In iTunes
44	VideoHow can we assess synergies and tradeoffs	Synergies and trade-offs are inherent in the attempt to achieve the triple wins of food security, increased resilience and mitigation to climate change. This webinar helps to develop a better understanding of economic and social synergies and trade-offs b	1/10/14	Free	View In iTunes
45	VideoRethinking the Role of the State in FInance	The global financial crisis has challenged conventional thinking on financial sector policies. It has re-opened a fundamental question: what should be the role of the state, as owner, regulator, overseer, and promoter, in financial development? The World	1/10/14	Free	View In iTunes
46	VideoReflection on the Doha Gateway and the way forward	Climate Change action practitioners from around the world eagerly await each year the outcomes from the Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings. From November 26 to December 7, 2012, COP-18 took place in Doha, Qatar. What are the key outcomes? Which inst	1/6/14	Free	View In iTunes
47	VideoLessons Learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami	Learning from Megadisasters is a knowledge-sharing project that aims to encourage countries to mainstream disaster risk management (DRM) in their development policies and planning. The project intends to achieve this through sharing Japan’s knowledge on	1/6/14	Free	View In iTunes
48	VideoInnovation and Sustainability in a Historic City: The Cambridge Case	nnovation is one of the key drivers of economic growth and urban transformation. Since the 1970s, the ancient university city of Cambridge in East Anglia has been a European pioneer in technology enterprise and has been emulated in many other places seeki	1/3/14	Free	View In iTunes
49	VideoInnovation Policies to Support low Emission development	Meeting climate change goals requires significant efforts to diffuse existing technologies and to develop and deploy new ones. Public and private investment need to be ramped up by a combination of “technology-push” and “market-pull” policies. Dif	1/3/14	Free	View In iTunes
50	VideoLessons from Brazil Scaling Up Slum Upgrading and Prevention through National Policies and Program	The launch of a national slum upgrading and affordable housing program in Brazil under the Acceleration Growth Program (PAC) enabled upgrading of slums and production of social housing to reach scale in the country. This was made possible by the implement	1/3/14	Free	View In iTunes
51	VideoRight to Health: Litigation in Brazil	In the past two decades Brazil has experienced a surge in right to health litigation, with thousands of claims reaching the courts every year demanding the enforcement of the right to health against the state. At first sight, this might be interpreted as	1/3/14	Free	View In iTunes
52	VideoInnovative Approaches to Promoting Urban Green Growth	In August of 2011, the Fundación Metrópoli and Think City Sdn Bhd began a joint effort, entitled the Penang Project, on the transformative potential of the Penang Conurbation, co-funded by the federal government of Malaysia. Penang is rapidly urbanizi	1/3/14	Free	View In iTunes
53	VideoFinancing Energy Efficiency: Lessons from International Experience	Energy efficiency has been widely recognized as one of the most cost-effective option to mitigate climate change. But the implementation of energy efficiency has been far short of the potential due to a number of barriers, including those related to finan	1/3/14	Free	View In iTunes
54	VideoTutela judicial del derecho a la salud en Uruguay	Se analizarán las tendencias jurisprudenciales sobre el derecho a la salud en Uruguay, con especial énfasis en las prestaciones de medicamentos, reseñándose los argumentos principales de los jueces. El caso uruguayo resulta excepcional en el contexto	1/3/14	Free	View In iTunes
55	VideoIntegrated Urban Water Management	he global urban population rose dramatically from 732 million (29%) in 1950 to 3.6 billion (52%) in 2011 and is projected to reach 60% (4.9 billion) by 2030. Most of this growth is taking place in lower and middle income countries where current water mana	1/3/14	Free	View In iTunes
56	VideoSolid Waste - Where the World is Today, and Where it's Headed	Developing country cities, already coping with burgeoning populations, scarce financial resources, and limited capacity to manage environmental issues, are facing a sharp rise in the amount and costs of garbage that they will be required to deal with by 2	12/30/13	Free	View In iTunes
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57	VideoEfectos adversos no intencionales de la intervención judicial en las decisiones de salud	Muchos países han incorporado el "derecho a la salud" en sus disposiciones constitucionales. Esto ha sido la base para demandas ante los más altos tribunales con el fin de revocar decisiones desfavorables de cobertura de los sistemas de atención de sal	12/30/13	Free	View In iTunes
58	VideoFinancing Private-Sector Led Off-Grid Electrification	To effectively support private sector led off-grid electrification, we need to understand the financial challenges faced by energy supply companies, technology and business solutions providers and project developers. Different financing solutions may be r	12/24/13	Free	View In iTunes
59	VideoImproving Urban Governance and Anti-Corruption in SE Europe	Corruption is considered one of the main obstacles in achieving a sustainable and fair urban development and in delivering effectively public services. Urban development and public service delivery are closely linked to anti-corruption efforts, as some of	12/24/13	Free	View In iTunes
60	VideoInstitutions and Politics of Metropolitan Management	Few cities in the developing world are able to discharge their increasing functions effectively. A lack of finance is cited by most city managers in developing countries as the principle cause. However, inadequate finance is only a part of the story. An e	12/24/13	Free	View In iTunes
61	VideoJusticiabilidad del Derecho a la Salud en Argentina	La exposición hará foco en el impacto de la reforma constitucional de 1994 en materia de derechos fundamentales en el escenario jurídico argentino y en los estándares jurisprudenciales de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación, impregnados de tal	12/24/13	Free	View In iTunes
62	VideoLa protección judicial del derecho a la salud en Colombia	Se presentará una mirada amplia de lo que ha significado en Colombia la justiciabilidad del derecho a la salud. “La experiencia de la Sentencia T-760 proferida por la Corte Constitucional de Colombia, con todas sus limitaciones, podría mostrar sendero	12/24/13	Free	View In iTunes
63	VideoMetropolitan Cities_ Their Rise, Role and Future	The webinar will explore now metropolitan cities can serve as drivers of economic development. All cities, but particularly metropolitan cities, need to recognize complementarity of manufacturing and services and enhance productivity and innovativeness of	12/24/13	Free	View In iTunes
64	VideoThe Decentralization of Governance in Metropolitan Areas	The webinar discusses whether the fiscal decentralization model that has been instrumental in decisions about structuring governance on a nationwide basis can be applied successfully in metropolitan areas. The presentation will include the theoretical und	12/23/13	Free	View In iTunes
65	VideoUpgrading of Informal Settlements Program in South Africa	The Upgrading of Informal Settlements Program in South Africa: formalizing settlements through tenure security, basic services and economic empowerment. This webinar will offer the opportunity to learn from South Africa’s unique experience on shaping a	12/23/13	Free	View In iTunes
66	VideoProteccion Judicial del Derecho a la Salud en Costa Rica	Costa Rica tiene un sistema nacional de salud, cuyas prestaciones corresponden universalmente a una institución pública: la Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social. La CCSS legalmente cubre al 100% de la población (en la realidad, al 90%). Costa Rica tiene	12/19/13	Free	View In iTunes
67	VideoPoA: Experiences from the Field	Programmes of Activities (PoAs) have been introduced to overcome some of the challenges associated with implementing Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects. PoA’s are of particular relevance in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) due to their potential	12/19/13	Free	View In iTunes
68	VideoScaling up Climate Action in Cities	The World Bank Institute Climate Change Practice (WBICC) has initiated a comprehensive capacity building program on Scaling up Climate Action in Cities. The initiative aims to support the development of sustainable, climate-friendly cities through knowled	12/19/13	Free	View In iTunes
69	VideoLessons Learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami	Learning from Megadisasters is a knowledge-sharing project that aims to encourage countries to mainstream disaster risk management (DRM) in their development policies and planning. The project intends to achieve this through sharing Japan’s knowledge on	2/1/13	Free	View In iTunes
70	VideoAfrica: Road to Middle Income and the Challenges for the Next Decade	If the current trend continues, most African countries would be middle-income by 2020 and by 2025, only about 13 countries could remain traditional aid recipients, most of them fragile states. But sustaining the trend and making it more pro-poor will not	1/31/13	Free	View In iTunes

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71	VideoReflection on the Doha Gateway and the way forward	Climate Change action practitioners from around the world eagerly await each year the outcomes from the Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings. From November 26 to December 7, 2012, COP-18 took place in Doha, Qatar. What are the key outcomes? Which inst	1/16/13	Free	View In iTunes
72	VideoRethinking the Role of the State in Finance	The global financial crisis has challenged conventional thinking on financial sector policies. It has re-opened a fundamental question: what should be the role of the state, as owner, regulator, overseer, and promoter, in financial development? The World	1/10/13	Free	View In iTunes
73	VideoEurope's Growth Problem: Is Austerity the Answer?	The current debate in Europe has pitted proponents of structural reforms (to make governments more efficient and the environment for enterprise more business-friendly) against those who see fiscal austerity as hurting rather than helping. The World Bank h	10/2/12	Free	View In iTunes
74	VideoInnovation Policies to Support Low Emission Development	Meeting climate change goals requires significant efforts to diffuse existing technologies and to develop and deploy new ones. Public and private investment need to be ramped up by a combination of “technology-push” and “market-pull” policies. Dif	9/28/12	Free	View In iTunes
75	VideoThe World Under Pressure: How China & India Are Influencing the Global Economy & Environment	The rapid rise of China and India is reshaping our global economic and environmental systems – raising major issues of stability, governance, and sustainability. This webinar will discuss framework that shows the interdependence between economic size, t	6/6/12	Free	View In iTunes
76	VideoCatalyzing 21st Century Growth: The Role of Innovative Cities	The analysis of the economic growth of cities is no different from that of countries: High performing cities, which can serve as engines of growth, are those that excel at mobilizing resources from domestic and external sources and channeling them into pr	5/8/12	Free	View In iTunes
77	VideoCities as Engines for Economic Growth	he monthly Webinar Series on “Cities as Engines of Economic Growth” provides a forum for leading experts, policy makers and the private sector to discuss timely topics on city competitiveness. The first event in this series will be delivered by Profes	4/16/12	Free	View In iTunes
78	VideoIntegrated Flood Risk Management	Urban flooding is a serious and growing development challenge, particularly for the residents of the rapidly expanding towns and cities in developing countries. Against the backdrop of demographic growth, urbanization trends and climate changes, the cause	4/4/12	Free	View In iTunes
79	VideoInnovations In Financing Public-Private Partnerships	In the face of ongoing global financial turmoil, governments that wish to sustain PPP programs are having to innovate and fill financing gaps that have arisen because of the declining appetite of banks for long-term lending for PPPs. This webinar will loo	3/13/12	Free	View In iTunes
80	VideoClimate Change, Disaster Risk and the Urban Poor	This webinar session will present key findings of the Mayor's Task Force on Climate Change, Disaster Risk and the Urban Poor which has developed a set of broad actions that cities can undertake to build resilience particularly for those at greatest risk.	2/16/12	Free	View In iTunes
81	VideoSignals from Durban: Next Steps for Climate Change	At 4:30 am on the morning of Sunday December 11, 2011, some 36 hours later than the official closing time, the 17th meeting so the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (or COP-17) came to an end in Durban. The 194 participating countri	1/19/12	Free	View In iTunes
82	VideoYouth Unemployment: Key Issues and Policy Challenges	The recent social unrest and political uprisings in the Middle East have underscored the perils of high rates of unemployment, especially among youth. Youth unemployment is high in all regions of the world, much higher than adult unemployment. In 2010, th	12/15/11	Free	View In iTunes
83	VideoThe South-South Opportunity: A Global Connector Role for the World Bank	Traditionally, development cooperation involved the transfer of resources and reform-prescriptions from North to South. Over the last years, however, more and more solutions to development challenges are coming from the global South. These countries want	11/1/11	Free	View In iTunes
84	VideoSocial Entrepreneurs: Ready to Share Center Stage with the Public and Private Sectors in Producing Growth with Equity	rvind Gupta, Lead Financial Sector Specialist at the World Bank Institute will argue, based on examples and data, that social entrepreneurs and the social enterprise sector are now ready to share center stage with the public sector and the private sector	10/5/11	Free	View In iTunes
85	VideoRevolt Against Big	The discussion centers around big financial institutions, conglomerates, and large sized entities (big government, big labor unions, etc.) which are usually powerful and pose a systematic risk to the economies. Policy options of dealing with large entitie	9/13/11	Free	View In iTunes