Should bloggers get embargoed World Bank reports?
Does the World Bank have a beef with bloggers? According to Aidwatch it does: This morning we learned that the World Bank does not consider bloggers journalists. According to Bank policy, it won’t give...
View ArticleDon’t send Summers to the World Bank
Please, Barack, don’t do it! Hans Nichols is reporting today that Larry Summers wants to be the next head of the World Bank — no surprise there — and that Barack Obama is thinking of nominating him....
View ArticleDon’t send Sachs to the World Bank
In 2002, Jeff Sachs took the top job at one of the most ambitious university departments in the world: the Earth Institute at Columbia University. And he’s done that job very well, judging by the main...
View ArticleSend Indra Nooyi to the World Bank
When it comes to the World Bank presidency, pretty much everybody agrees on two things: (1) it shouldn’t be an American; (2) it will be an American. We can and probably should get hung up on (1), but...
View ArticleDon’t send Easterly to the World Bank
Bill Easterly has a wonderful riff at Foreign Policy today, entitled “How I Would Not Lead the World Bank”. He urges us all not to pick him as the next World Bank president, and concludes that he...
View ArticleThe ideal nominee for World Bank president
Now things are getting interesting. Lesley Wroughton has the wonderful news: two very highly qualified non-American candidates — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Jose Antonio Ocampo — are going to be nominated...
View ArticleLarry Summers, the revolving door, and the World Bank
Remember Krishnan Guru-Murthy’s interview with Larry Summers in January? He asked about Inside Job‘s allegations that Summers was a clear beneficiary of the revolving door. Now see if you can spot a...
View ArticleJim Kim!
So that was unexpected: the next president of the World Bank is almost certain to be Jim Yong Kim, the co-founder of Partners in Health and the current president of Dartmouth University College. The...
View ArticleJim Yong Kim and Dartmouth’s culture of sexual assault
What is it about the heads of the World Bank and IMF and their relation with sexual politics? Both Paul Wolfowitz and Dominique Strauss-Kahn lost their jobs because of the way that they treated women,...
View ArticleWhy Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala should run the World Bank
I first wrote at length about Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in September 2005, when the magazine gave her its genuinely prestigious Finance Minister of the Year award. It’s here, on my Tumblr, since the original...
View ArticleThe political calculus of the World Bank contest
Mohamed El-Erian comes out in favor of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala today, while at the same time explaining the fraught international political calculus involved in working out who is going to vote for whom....
View ArticleDoes anybody at all think Kim’s a better candidate than Ngozi?
If you want to get a great feel for the difference between Jim Yong Kim and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, just check out what they’ve said in public about what they want to do with the presidency of the World...
View ArticleJim Yong Kim’s depressing tactical silence
When Barack Obama nominated Jim Yong Kim to be the president of the World Bank, the most notable thing that he said was about Trayvon Martin. And since then, Kim has disappeared. Jesse Griffiths put up...
View ArticleWhy Jim Yong Kim won’t change the World Bank
Thomas Bollyky has a subtle and slightly confusing op-ed in the NYT today, entitled “How to Fix the World Bank”. Worldbankpresident.org, your one-stop shop for all news on the race, calls it “an...
View ArticleIs the World Bank board sure what Jim Kim thinks?
William Easterly is uncharacteristically credulous today. He spoke to one of those Senior Administration Officials on Wednesday, and the Official gave Easterly the official explanation for why Jim Yong...
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