International Financial Institutions

This is a joint post with Julia Clark and Christian Meyer. Industrial policy—as many have already commented—is back. (See here, here and here). The recent wave of post-financial-crisis interventionism has reignited the classic (and often heated) debate about whether governments can in...

This post is joint with Ross Thuotte Today, the World Bank announced that Jim Yong Kim will be the institution’s next president. As the dust settles from the leadership selection debate, the focus will necessarily shift to the issues that confront Kim and the world’s leading development inst...