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Bretton Woods Twins
The general rule for modern Democratic candidates is to voice skepticism for trade agreements in the run-up to elections, and then warm up to them once in office. The electoral dynamics are simple: o…
Although more than a few colleagues tend to view the World Bank in quite a negative light no matter what they do, I have come to a more ambivalent position. (Newer readers should note potential confl…
News is becoming sparser as most of the Christian world slows for the Easter holidays. However, in the run-up to the selection of the next World Bank president which should happen in a fortnight or s…
I'd like to say the competition to become the next World bank president is heating up if it weren't for the common understanding that it will be another American stitch-up. While I'd have…
Take up the White Man's burden-- Have done with childish days-- The lightly proferred laurel, The easy, ungrudged praise. Comes now, to search your manhood Through all the thankless yea…
I have to run but it's going to be very interesting going with the current World Bank President Robert Zoellick indicating that he is about to resign his post. The search is on for a successor wi…
File this under: pre-emptive strike. It appears that the indefatigable Hugo Chavez is back on the warpath against all things American. A few days ago he publicly suspected the United States of unleas…
Just so you know, I've regularly been receiving (print!) newsletters from the Bretton Woods Project whose most famous campaign was "Fifty Years is Enough" concerning the aforementioned…
You've probably seen the headline that Hillary Clinton is agitating to become the White House's pick to succeed Bush-era appointee (and former USTR) Robert Zoellick as the World Bank preside…
[NOTE: I highly recommend reading Agustin Carstens' manifesto for an LDC IMF head before moving on. ] Although you may occasionally get the feeling that I'd happily back boxing legend Julio …
Before getting to the topic at hand, let me point out Desmond Lachman of the AEI and his scathing indictment of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's performance as IMF managing-director--but without offerin…
As expected, jockeying for the appointment of the next IMF managing director has begun. In an odd twist on the American deficit lubber's argument that medium-term fiscal consolidation is a desira…
I wonder what our colleagues at the Bretton Woods Project would make of this. Before going to sleep last night, I caught news that IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was held in New York en…
Well this is a somewhat newer form of lending that just shows you the increasing prominence of migration not only in the headlines but in development work in general. Once more, it seems our friends …
Here's yet another interesting article from the new LSE house journal Global Policy . It all started in the second issue of this publication when Robert Wade, a famously "heterodox" eco…
In case you missed it, submissions have now closed and voting has just begun--hopefully including yours--for the World Bank-sponsored ' Apps for Development ' competition. I am sure that elec…
In case you missed it, here's further proof of how far China has come in terms of winning friends and influencing people. Paramount Leader Hu Jintao pretty much came, saw, and conquered ( veni, …
The general impression you get from certain developing countries is that easy money policies emanating from reserve currency-issuing ones like the unbelievably profligate United States are driving u…
