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Keep the World Bank Bookstore (Infoshop) Open

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Kadijah
5 years ago

Loved this store when I worked for GW. Had all sorts of awesome finds and great gifts.

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mikhail
6 years ago

Open it!!

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Christine E
8 years ago Featured

The shop is a huge asset to the informed public and the only way to connect to many publications on a number of important, interesting and sometimes obscure topics. When I come to DC, I purposely book a hotel near this shop! Please keep it open.

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Elizabeth Leigh
9 years ago

This bookstore is a huge asset not only to Washington DC, but to the world at large! It is crucial source for international work and for play and the exchange of cultural ideas! This is a huge loss.

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Claudio Ansorena
9 years ago

I t is very important for the image and diffusion of what the WBG does!!! And easy to get the books, personalize service, good prices!

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Humayun Mirza
9 years ago

I would like to see the Bookstore reopen.

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WILFRED J AWUNG
9 years ago

please keep the book store open for all Economist

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Katharina Arnhold
9 years ago

I left for Europe for one month, and see that the World Bank has gone ahead with its plan to purge the bookstore, a site which once encouraged international education and global outreach. If the WP cannot maintain its message at headquarters, how can it be effective in its regions? This bookstore offered the reader books on important global subjects which made for thrilling reading and were absolutely necessary for the education of today's public. Here were global viewpoints that would never be found in commercial bookstores. As a librarian and lawyer, I encourage the Bank to reopen this site to serve its enlightened purpose.

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P Sirinupongs EDS16
9 years ago

It is ok to downsize the store but please keep it open. it is a great place for good books.

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Alec Nash
9 years ago

The InfoShop lets the public easily access the high-level work that the World Bank does. Keep transparency alive and keep the InfoShop open!

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Donald Ross
9 years ago

This is a serious retreat from the Bank's programme and purpose. For a great many the Bookshop is the first or only point of contact with the otherwise remote and unseen World Bank, the place where it's work and efforts are made manifest to a worldwide public coming to and/or passing through DC. Close it and you cut off the one real link you have to the public. Unwise.

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Regina Coeli Silva-Silfa
9 years ago

The World Bank InfoShop is a landmark in downtown D.C. I know of many people who enjoy stopping by and browse the books. As a librarian I referred people outside the World Bank/IMF to the InfoShop many, many times. The World Bank InfoShop is the last bastion for the printed book downtown D.C. please keep it open.

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Jennifer Toplitz
9 years ago

A Good bookstore is SUCH a Treasure!

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Sara Rodgers
9 years ago

The bookstore plays an important cultural role in this vibrant city of Wasgington, D.C.. that is both our nation's capital and an important international city.

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elcior santan
9 years ago

The Infoshop is a contribution to DC. It's diverse/pluralistic and always excellent. This is a disservice by the World Bank.

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Anonymous
9 years ago

This store needs to stay! A major city like DC needs a central bookstore representative of thought, diversity and multi-cultural humanity.

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Sophie Tremolet
9 years ago

I have always considered this a gem of a bookstore, not only for WB publications but also for publications related to development and the world. I don't live in DC but like to go there every time i come through HQ. Please keep it open

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Matthew Salter
9 years ago

Please, please, please keep this bookshop open - it's an island of quality and choice in reading material the middle of DC. A real God-send.

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Richard Carroll
9 years ago

I have always appreciated that there is bookstore near my office so I can physically peruse the new titles for both world bank and non-world bank publications. PLEASE KEEP IT OPEN

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Mead Over
9 years ago

Providing books in Burkina Faso is a worthy goal, but would be furthered by maintaining the World Bank's bookstore as a central brick-and-mortar source with the broadest collection of Bank publications.