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Nov
28
2007
2:00—4:00 PM
November 16, 2007
"Governance Matters: Debunking the Afro-pessimism Myth” will use the recent update of the World Bank Institute's (WBI) well-known global governance indicators (www.govindicators.org) to spark a policy discussion about measuring governance, policy actions to improve governance, and whether "afro-pess...
Oct
18
2007
8:00—2:00 PM
October 15, 2007
This half-day CGD conference will bring together leading thinkers
and policy makers from developing and donor countries for detailed discussion on the future of the World Bank. The conference concludes with remarks and an open discussion with World Bank president Robert Zoellick.
ESSAYS
October 15, 2007
In this CGD Essay, Birdsall and Subramianian argue that the World Bank faces twin crises of relevance and legitimacy in a rapidly changing world. The solution, they argue, is for the bank to become a more active catalyst for generating global public goods and knowledge and a more reluctant lender to...