Rule of law can rid the world of poverty
Poverty is on the retreat. Despite the global economic downturn, the number of people living in extreme poverty has dropped in every region of the world for the first time since record keeping began....
View ArticleHow the IMF should respond to a ‘three-speed world’
Officials from around the world gathering for the semi-annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank should go beyond the important issue of how individual countries emerge more quickly from their malaise....
View ArticleWhat we need from the IMF/World Bank meetings
As the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank approach, I remember vividly the exceptional collective awakening that took hold of this same gathering five years ago. Hundreds...
View ArticleThe artificial fuel for growth cannot last forever
With the US government shutdown and the possibility of a debt default occupying a lot of the bandwidth, last week’s International Monetary Fund/World Bank annual meetings struggled to deliver on...
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