World Bank's Kim on Migration's Economic Case
The World Bank president prescribes migration to cure a slowing world economy. There's some good commentary from World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on how migration can help support faltering glob…
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Pol Eco of Stats: World Bank's New $1.90 Poverty Line
New targets require new measures of poverty, right? There has been, in the memorable characterization of Robert Wade, a "p olitical economy of statistics " concerning poverty and inequality…
Did World Bank Wimp Out on PRC Financial Interference?
I almost forgot to post about this recent event that does not seem to have attracted much attention from IPE scholars, but should. As I've mentioned several times now, China isn't exactly an …
Larry Summers, 'Gross Hypocrisy' and PRC's AIIB
Zzzzz...Barack yaps too much...will set things straight in WaPo...zzzzz... I am utterly perplexed by this recent, bizarre op-ed by former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in the Washington Post. …
Ebola Smackdown: World Bank Takes On the WHO
Could the World Bank have handled the Ebola outbreak in West Africa better? Let's begin 2015 with an important and hard-hitting brand of analysis the IPE Zone is known for by now. The outbreak of…
The Day the World Bank (Sorta) Went on Strike
World Bank headquarters - an unlikely site for "industrial action." Being in the service of world development and an American-led institution has always presented a conflict of interest at…
US Hates Competition: Killing PRC's World Bank Rival
US seeks to strangle Xi Jinping's baby in its cradle. The "market" for development lending is dominated by institutions with no small amount of American influence. Remember, the United …
New World Order? BRICS "New Development Bank"
We've heard all that before, unfortunately, BRICS. Grand plans to supplant the (American-designed) postwar global financial architecture lie thick on the ground. As I noted in 2007 , poor countri…
The Semi-Unfixables: Cyprus, Tunisia
Oh, the western world's woes: it has now taken on the incredible financial basket case that is Ukraine while not exactly "fixing" the situations of its other chronic deadbeats. Today, c…
World Bank President and Bono [?!] on Ending Poverty
We haven't had a video feature in ages, so here's one that should be of general interest. Current World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has not really received much popular public attention--or e…
25 Years Later, World Bank Returns to Myanmar
For developing countries, the process of normalizing relations with the rest of the world involves again availing of certain things: Coca-Cola . Pepsi . Aside from re-engaging in trade in (rather unh…