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A farmer harvests wheat on a field in the El-Menoufia governorate, about 9.94 km (58 miles) north of Cairo (REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany).

Paper | Africa Growth Initiative Working Papers

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

May 2013, John McArthur

John McArthur examines sub-Saharan Africa’s contemporary small-holder agricultural challenges and draws comparisons between Africa today and the green revolution dynamics that took shape across Asia during the 20th century.

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Opinion | Project Syndicate

The End of Convergence?

October 3, 2013, Kemal Derviş
News Release

David Dollar, Leading Expert on China’s Economy, Joins the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings as a Senior Fellow

July 22, 2013
Opinion | OpenCanada.org

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

April 29, 2013, Bessma Momani
In the News

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
Opinion

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
In the News

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
Opinion | New York Times

Global Lenders Rebuild Identities After the Crisis

October 12, 2012, Eswar Prasad
In the News

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
Past Event

A Conversation with Former World Bank President Robert Zoellick

August 3, 2012
Paper | United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Protection and Planned Relocations in the Context of Climate Change

August 2012, Elizabeth Ferris