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Good Things Grow in Scaled Packages: Africa's Agricultural Challenge in Historical Context

May 2013, John McArthur

Our Job Deficiency: A Challenge to the IMF-World Bank

April 29, 2013, Bessma Momani

Ultimately, if we are going to have legitimacy of [the IMF and World Bank], if we are going to have future funding, contribution and buy-in by the wealthiest countries, which will continue to be emerging market economies, we need to see this kind of reform [of giving more voting power to emerging nations] take place.

March 29, 2013, Bessma Momani , Voice of America

How Effective Is the World Bank at Targeting Sub-National Poverty in Africa? A Foray into the Murky World of Geo-Coded Data

February 4, 2013, Laurence Chandy, Natasha Ledlie and Veronika Penciakova

The [International Monetary Fund's] executive board is really the policy-making body of the institution. If you have a stronger voice in the executive board, you end up affecting the policies and the program of the institution.

October 14, 2012, Domenico Lombardi, Bloomberg

Global Lenders Rebuild Identities After the Crisis

October 12, 2012, Eswar Prasad

The question is: do these BRICs countries have enough in common to make [a BRICs development] bank instrumental to their objectives? They all have a huge need for infrastructure [investment] and share a dissatisfaction with the lending policies of the World Bank, so there’s a base on which they could build.

September 23, 2012, Domenico Lombardi, Financial Times

A Conversation with Former World Bank President Robert Zoellick

August 3, 2012

Jim Kim’s Deepest World Bank Challenge

July 20, 2012, John McArthur

Global Development at a Pivotal Time: A Conversation with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim

July 18, 2012

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Less Agreement Than Meets the Eye

May 25, 2012, Homi Kharas

Time to Rethink the Future World Bank President Appointment Process

April 30, 2012, Mwangi S. Kimenyi

Banking on Jim

May 2012, Domenico Lombardi

A World of Convergence

April 25, 2012, Kemal Derviş

Kim Appointment May Spur Changes at the World Bank

April 20, 2012, Eswar Prasad

Development Challenges for the Global Economy: A Conversation with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

April 19, 2012

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The State of the Global Economy: A Conversation with Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner

April 18, 2012

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Charting a New Course for the World Bank: Three Options for its New President

April 17, 2012, Johannes F. Linn

The Nominations for the Next World Bank President

March 23, 2012, Homi Kharas

The Contradictions in Global Poverty Numbers

March 6, 2012, Laurence Chandy and Homi Kharas

Evaluating the Evaluators: Some Lessons from a Recent World Bank Self-Evaluation

February 21, 2012, Johannes F. Linn

Obama Considers Lawrence Summers for World Bank President

February 14, 2012, Melvin Ayogu

The World Bank and Coal Aid

October 2011, Abigail Jones, Nigel Purvis and Andrew Stevenson

Local Governance Reforms Are Critical to Improving the Effectiveness of IMF/World Bank Lending to Africa

September 29, 2011, Julius Agbor and Olumide Taiwo

Transparency and the IMF

September 23, 2011, David Gartner