CGD in the News

Boldly Leading the IDB [Miami Herald]

May 15, 2006

Senior fellow Liliana Rojas-Suarez is quoted in this article about the IDB's president Moreno and the future of the Bank.

From the article:

''If the status quo continues, I don't see the bank closing up, but I see a mediocre institution,'' says Liliana Rojas-Suárez, an economist with the Washington think tank Center for Global Development...

This means the bank has to target a new client base such as municipalities, provinces and private groups. But to reach them, the bank needs a greater presence abroad and more agility in lending practices, says Rojas-Suárez...

''You need doers, and he's a doer,'' says Rojas-Suárez, who headed an outside task force that wrote a report on the bank's effectiveness earlier this year.