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World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings – Nancy Birdsall and Todd Moss
April 09, 2013
In this week’s Wonkcast, recorded in the run-up to the institutions’ Spring Meetings, we consider these questions. My guests are Nancy Birdsall, founding president of CGD, and Todd Moss, vice president of programs and senior fellow.
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World Bank Study Explores Options on Global Public Goods
February 12, 2013
Many obstacles to development transcend national borders and therefore cannot be adequately addressed within a single country. These include issues such as drug resistance and other cross-border health risks, financial crises contagion, money laundering, water scarcity, fisheries collapse and, of co...
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Climate Talks Deadlock and the Fiscal Cliff Spark Fresh Interest in Carbon Taxes
November 28, 2012
This is a joint post with Lawrence MacDonald. What do the stalled climate talks getting underway in Doha, Qatar, this week and the partisan jousting in Washington over the impending “fiscal cliff” have in common? Not much if you get your information from the mainstream media, which has mostly...
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Recognizing and Rewarding the Best Development Professionals
October 11, 2012
This blog post is co-authored with Martin Ravallion, who has been the Director of the World Bank’s Development Economics Research Group for several years and is currently Acting Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the Bank. The blog is cross-posted on the World Bank site here. These ...
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In Tokyo, Kim Should Signal Why IDA Needs to Be Better, Not Bigger
October 11, 2012
This is a joint post with Stephanie Majerowicz World Bank presidents have often defined their success in part via ever-larger replenishments for IDA, the Bank’s soft loan window. But at his first ever Bank-Fund annual meetings this weekend in Tokyo, Jim Yong Kim should explain to the gathered...
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The Future of IDA – Todd Moss
October 10, 2012