World Bank

Interview – Dane Rowlands

E-International Relations • Nov 5 2023 • Features

Dane Rowlands evaluates the efficacy of the International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions in tackling global financial issues such as poverty.

Opinion – The World Bank’s Comprehensive Climate-Centric Transformation

Rizwan Basir • Jul 30 2023 • Articles

The World Bank faces mounting pressure to prioritize climate change as its new overarching mission, which will require significant adjustments to its investments and orientation.

Opinion – Why Does the World Bank Not Classify Ukraine as ‘In Conflict’?

Elliot Dolan-Evans • May 29 2022 • Articles

Ukraine is one of the largest borrowers of IMF and World Bank money, and the country holds huge debt obligations from countries and external creditors worldwide.

Contested Multilateralism as Credible Signalling: Why the AIIB Cooperates with the World Bank

Benjamin Faude and Michal Parizek • Sep 24 2020 • Articles

Rising powers’ dissatisfaction with the institutional order has led them to set up new institutions which overlap with legacy institutions.

Forty Years of Constructing Development: How China Adopted GDP Measurement

Joan van Heijster • Dec 21 2018 • Articles

Tracing how China adopted GDP measurement in the early reform period (1978-1993) tells us more about how GDP has shaped China’s current powerful status.

Inequality, Poverty and a ‘Human Economy’

Richard Dodgson • Mar 17 2017 • Articles

What might it mean to move to a human economy?

The BRICS’ Economic Institutions and International Politics

Fabiano Mielniczuk • Aug 18 2014 • Articles

The new institutions of the BRICS signal a new reality in international politics that corresponds to the unique multipolar moment of power and ideas.

Inoculating against Politics

Laura Routley • Aug 5 2014 • Articles

Development agencies have started to engage more with the political nature of development. However the nature of politics is that what is ‘right’ is always contestable.

Global Economic Governance 2.0: From G20 to a Global Economic Council

Jakob Vestergaard and Robert H. Wade • Jun 16 2012 • Articles

The G7 states themselves are no more likely to push for a Global Economic Council than turkeys are to vote for Christmas, but that should not stop others from advocating along these lines.

Raising the Bar on Chocolate: Cocoa Farmers in Ghana Shape the Future

Pauline Tiffen • Jul 3 2010 • Articles

In 1993 Ghana initiated the partial liberalisation of its most significant economic export, cocoa beans. Having resisted World Bank pressure to liberalise fully, the Cocoa Marketing Board retained its monopoly on exports through the Cocoa Marketing Company. It thus sustained its farm-to-port quality control system of every sack and its authority to determine the terms of trade

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