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In a 7-1 Decision, the United States Supreme Court Rules that the IFC Is Not Above the Law
February 27, 2019
The US Supreme Court decided, in a ruling on Jam v. International Finance Corporation (IFC), that the IFC can be sued in US courts.
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Parting Words: Stephen Groff on His Tenure at the Asian Development Bank
February 15, 2019
With Jim Kim’s abrupt departure from the World Bank, there has been a swirl of commentary on questions of legacy, the best of which aim to answer the question, “how is the bank doing?” For large multilateral institutions like the World Bank, that’s a frustratingly difficult q...
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Time, Gentlemen, Please
February 06, 2019
It is time for an open, fair, merit-based process to appoint the next President of the World Bank. And I’ll explain below why I think the Europeans may, at last, break the cartel that has prevented this.
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May the Best Woman Win at the World Bank
February 04, 2019
Like the US, the World Bank needs its next president to save it—in this case from a slide into irrelevance and obscurity if this century’s new global challenges are not addressed head on.
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Making GCFF Financing a Win for Venezuelans and Their Colombian Hosts
January 28, 2019
As dueling claims to the Venezuela’s presidency threaten to spark further violence and devastating economic and social turmoil accelerates, the exodus of Venezuelan migrants continues. In a context of increasing pressure and the possibility of larger inflows, the World Bank recently annou...
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A Closer Look at the World Bank’s Sizable China Portfolio
January 10, 2019
China continues to borrow an average of $2 billion a year from the World Bank, making it one of the Bank’s top borrowers—despite being the world’s second-largest economy and itself a major global lender.