Views from the Center
How Al Gore Helped Green the World Bank: A Personal and Professional Appreciation
Leaders create news as they stake out new territory, and they also create turbulence that can be harnessed by institutional reformers when conditions are right. The conditions were undoubtedly right at the World Bank in 1992.
In World Bank President Robert Zoellick's Maiden Speech, A Surprise Focus on Climate Change
One very good thing that can be said about Robert Zoellick's maiden speech as World Bank president today is that it was much better than the advance account in yesterday's Wall Street Journal (subscription required) would have led listeners to expect.
Four Questions for Bob Zoellick
President Bush's nomination of Robert Zoellick to be the next president of the World Bank has been mostly well-received in U.S. policy circles and by some leading rich and developing countries.
On Global Warming and Ethanol: Good use of World Bank presidency bully pulpit, Mr. Wolfowitz!
Politicians and protesters in Washington today for the first Climate Crisis Action Day would do well to remember that global institutions have a potentially valuable role to play in addressing global warming.
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