Finance

After Nancy Birdsall wrote from Lima last week that she’d been (happily) surprised to see microeconomic issues atop the agenda at the normally macro-heavy World Bank/IMF meetings, I now offer an alternative perspective from the meetings in the Peruvian capital: financial in...

“Macro” issues naturally dominate the talk in these seminars and in the corridors. But not this time. I was surprised to find "micro” development issues suffused the agenda.

The FAO’s Somalia Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) released an assessment of external remittances to Somalia, based on a survey of both urban and internally-displaced families. The headline result from the report was that apparently remittances were on the decline, but the FSN...