International Financial Institutions

This blog was originally posted on March 7, 2011. Regulators at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland, are hard at work designing regulatory standards to avoid future financial meltdowns like the global financial crisis of 2008. Joining them for two months is Lilia...

Is it possible to alter national governments and global institutions so that decision makers can focus on the vitally important longer term challenges, while still dealing with the urgent considerations which crowd their daily agenda? That’s the important and difficult question set before the ...

In this week’s Wonkcast, recorded in the run-up to the institutions’ Spring Meetings, we consider these questions. My guests are Nancy Birdsall, founding president of CGD, and Todd Moss, vice president of programs and senior fellow.