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January 16, 2010
Nancy Birdsall gave the closing remarks at the 2004 Conference of the World Bank's Operations and Evaluations Department. The conference focused on the effectiveness of the Bank's policies and reforms. Birdsall discussed her views on reforming donor activities in order to improve foreign aid to poor...
January 15, 2010
G-20 heads of state gathering in Washington this upcoming weekend to seek solutions to the global financial crisis should consider ways to strengthen the IMF and the World Bank, the international financial institutions set up after World War II,
to prevent a repeat of the Great Depression. CGD pres...
Nov
6
2009
2:00—3:30 PM
November 09, 2009
The World Bank recently released the long-awaited report of a high-level commission on World Bank governance headed by former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo. The report, requested by World Bank president Robert Zoellick, offers a comprehensive blueprint for modernizing the bank. The Center for Gl...
Sep
17
2009
11:30—1:00 PM
September 09, 2009
The global financial crisis that originated in the developed economies has hit low-income countries hard. As they were coping with the food and fuel price shocks of 2008, the crisis caused a sharp decline in world trade, falling commodity prices, and dropping remittances. In response, the IMF has un...