Message-ID: <199707011454.HAA24901@igc3.igc.apc.org> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 10:41:46 +0000 From: Philip Bogdonoff <mailto:pbogdonoff@igc.apc.org> Subject: Workshops on World Bank Development Model To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Workshops on the World Bank's RMSM-X Model
and the Millennium Institute's Threshold 21 Model
Invitation
You are cordially invited to attend two workshops, one on the World
Bank s principal model, RMSM-X, the Revised Mininum Standard
Model-Extended, and the other on a new, user-friendly, country-level
sustainable development model from the Millennium Institute,
THRESHOLD 21. The workshops will be held in Washington, D.C.
The RMSM-X workshop is offered on either of two dates:
Tuesday, July 15, 1997, or
Thursday, August 14, 1997.
The RMSM-X workshop will: (1) review the history, assumptions, and
uses of The World Bank's Revised Minimum Standard Model-Extended
(RMSM-X) in the Bank s decision-making processes and government
relations, and (2) present RMSM-Quick, the Millennium Institute's
user-friendly version of the Bank's model. Both workshops will be
conducted by Dr. Weishuang Qu, Director of Analysis, Millennium
Institute.
The THRESHOLD 21 workshop, to be held on Tuesday, September 16,
1997, will present THRESHOLD 21, the Millennium Institute's
sustainable development model. THRESHOLD 21 is based on RMSM-X, but
includes additional factors, such as: population, goods production,
agriculture, energy, social services, environment, military,
education, health care, food and nutrition, water, forest, land,
international trade, technology, greenhouse gas emissions, and
employment.
Bank economists, embassy economic staff, managers of international
banks and insurance firms, and staff of development-related NGOs will
benefit from the workshops by:
* Gaining new understanding of the role of RMSM-X in the World
Bank's decision-making processes and government relations;
* Acquiring skills to negotiate win-win agreements between the
Bank and governments;
* Assessing long-term national investment and insurance
opportunities and risks; and
* Obtaining compiled versions of RMSM Quick and THRESHOLD 21, with
documentation.
The Millennium Institute, a nonprofit organization, has studied the
RMSM-X model in depth and developed RMSM-Quick and THRESHOLD 21 in
Vensim(r), a state-of-the-art dynamic modeling language.
Please mail the REGISTRATION FORM -- available at
http://www.igc.apc.org/millennium/services/workform.html
-- and a check (payable to "Millennium Institute") for the
appropriate amount to the Institute by July 11, 1997 to reserve your
seat for the first RMSM workshop. Seats are limited, and early
reservations are encouraged. Participants need to bring PC laptop
computers (at least a 486 processor, Windows 3.1, and 50 MB free on
hard disk) for installation of the models.
Please contact Mr. Kaushik Mukerjee, Director of Development, at
tel: +1 (703) 841-0048 if you have any questions.
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