Research and Commentary

The End of Convergence?

October 3, 2013, Kemal Derviş

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

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

Global Lenders Rebuild Identities After the Crisis

October 12, 2012, Eswar Prasad

Protection and Planned Relocations in the Context of Climate Change

August 2012, Elizabeth Ferris

Jim Kim’s Deepest World Bank Challenge

July 20, 2012, John McArthur

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

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

April 17, 2012, Johannes F. Linn

World Bank Leadership Should Reflect Emerging Economies

March 28, 2012, Colin I. Bradford

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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

New World Bank President? Another Tough Choice for Obama

September 20, 2011, Lex Rieffel

The United States Should Wish Bon Voyage to the World Bank

September 16, 2011, Lex Rieffel

A Historic Landmark in Development: Reflecting on the First Resettlement Policy

July 2011, Michael M. Cernea

A Historic Landmark in Development: Reflecting on the First Resettlement Policy

July 2011, Michael M. Cernea