World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz faces unprecedented pressure to resign his position. What’s at stake here, analysts say, is the Bush administration’s commitment to multilateralism. Critics say it’s time for the World Bank’s leader-selection process to be opened up, so that non-U.S. citizens could be considered for the post.
Development Financing
An Interview with Homi Kharas on the UNGA78 summits and the two reports on MDB reform by the Independent Expert Group
Commentary
Wolfowitz Case Offers Test of Multilateralism
Kenneth Rogoff
Kenneth Rogoff
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics
- Harvard University,
Former Brookings Expert
April 23, 2007