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Trillions of Dollars in Oil, Gas and Mining Revenue Still Shrouded in Secrecy

May 20, 2013, Daniel Kaufmann

China’s Increasing Interest in Africa: Benign but Hardly Altruistic

April 5, 2013, Yun Sun

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

[There is] a very serious effort to really pull [the BRICS nations] together despite the differences and differing interests. Yes, it will be difficult to put the [new development] bank in place. It will take a lot of time to accumulate the capital.

March 27, 2013, Colin I. Bradford, Bloomberg

BRICS and China’s Aspiration for the New “International Order”

March 25, 2013, Yun Sun

[Without U.S. approval] the whole effort to make the IMF a more accountable, more legitimate institution worldwide cannot really be fulfilled.

February 15, 2013, Domenico Lombardi, Bloomberg

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

Convergence, Interdependence, and Divergence in the World Economy

September 2012, Kemal Derviş

Golden Age of Gas

August 9, 2012, Rahool Panandiker and Urjit R. Patel

Isolation and Stalemate in the World Economy

July 2012, Domenico Lombardi

A World of Convergence

April 25, 2012, Kemal Derviş

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

April 17, 2012, Johannes F. Linn

A Clarion Call for Emerging Markets

February 14, 2012, Eswar Prasad

What Have I Done to Deserve This? Global Winds and Latin American Growth

January 27, 2012, Luciano Cohan and Eduardo Levy-Yeyati

India Must Not Let Slip Its Moment for Reform

December 18, 2011, Eswar Prasad

Quantifying Poverty's Global Decline

October 2011, Laurence Chandy and Geoffrey Gertz

New World Bank President? Another Tough Choice for Obama

September 20, 2011, Lex Rieffel

To Solve the Fiscal Dilemma, Look to the Details

September 1, 2011, Kemal Derviş

Role Reversal in Global Finance

August 27, 2011, Eswar Prasad

Unexpected East Coast Earthquake Spurs U.S. Stock Market Rally: Add to the List of Ridiculous Political Economic Statements?

August 24, 2011, Daniel Kaufmann

Debt Burden in Advanced Economies Now a Global Threat

July 28, 2011, Mengjie Ding and Eswar Prasad

The Old Order Has Triumphed Yet Again at the IMF

June 28, 2011, Eswar Prasad

Policy Lessons for Emerging Markets

June 6, 2011

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Doha or Bust

June 3, 2011, Homi Kharas

Financial Globalization in Emerging Economies: Much Ado About Nothing?

June 2, 2011, Tomas Williams and Eduardo Levy-Yeyati