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	<title>Global Development: Views from the Center » International Financial Institutions</title>
	
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	<description>Global Development: Views from the Center features posts from Nancy Birdsall and her colleagues at the Center for Global Development about innovative, practical policy responses to poverty and inequality in an ever-more globalized world.</description>
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		<title>EBRD Raises the Bar for International Appointments</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/05/ebrd-raises-the-bar-for-international-appointments.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 19:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Barder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Owen Barder - On Friday evening, the governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development   (EBRD) selected a new president: British civil servant Sir Suma Chakrabarti. The decision is important because the EBRD has recently taken on a major global challenge: assisting the countries of the Arab Spring.  It also matters because the selection process raised the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s not an IDA world anymore</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/05/its-not-an-ida-world-anymore.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 21:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Birdsall</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8599</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nancy Birdsall - This is a joint post with Christian Meyer. One of the pressing questions for Jim Kim in the years ahead as the World Bank’s new president is what to do as many countries graduate out of IDA, the bank’s fund for grants and concessional loans to the poorest countries. To generate ideas and possible directions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interviews with EBRD Candidates</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/05/interviews-with-ebrd-candidates.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/05/interviews-with-ebrd-candidates.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Barder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8585</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Owen Barder - On Friday the Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will decide who will be the Bank’s next President.  Today we are publishing interviews with four of the candidates. In September 2009, the leaders of the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh called for the “the heads and senior leadership of all international institutions [to] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CGD Europe Asks: Who Should Be the EBRD’s Next President?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/05/cgd-europe-asks-who-should-be-the-ebrds-next-president.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/05/cgd-europe-asks-who-should-be-the-ebrds-next-president.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Barder</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8580</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Owen Barder - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will appoint its next president in ten days, after months of deliberation. Many in the international development community are pushing for the process to be open, transparent and merit-based&#8211;a rallying cry you&#8217;ll recall from the recent World Bank presidential selection process. On behalf of CGD Europe, We&#8217;ve invited each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Structural Economics: Industrial Policy 2.0 or Same Old Structuralism?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/new-structural-economics-industrial-policy-2-0-or-same-old-structuralism.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/new-structural-economics-industrial-policy-2-0-or-same-old-structuralism.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Gelb</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8505</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Alan Gelb - 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 fact nurture economic growth. Previous analysis of the East Asian miracle, and frustration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Challenge for Jim Yong Kim, New President of the World Bank—What to Do in Fragile States?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/a-challenge-for-jim-yong-kim-new-president-of-the-world-bank%e2%80%94what-to-do-in-fragile-states.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/a-challenge-for-jim-yong-kim-new-president-of-the-world-bank%e2%80%94what-to-do-in-fragile-states.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vijaya Ramachandran</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8437</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Vijaya Ramachandran - 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 institution. One of the most difficult and important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>José Antonio Ocampo Makes His Case to Be President of the World Bank</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/jose-antonio-ocampo-makes-his-case-to-be-president-of-the-world-bank.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/jose-antonio-ocampo-makes-his-case-to-be-president-of-the-world-bank.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence MacDonald</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8407</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Lawrence MacDonald - The challenge posed by developing countries to the U.S. grip on the World Bank presidency will test industrial nations&#8217; commitment to an open selection process, former Colombian finance minister and nominee Jose Antonio Ocampo, said Tuesday at an event (full video) organized by CGD and Washington Post Live &#8220;We are putting the industrial countries to account [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does the World Bank Board Have the Authority to Choose Jim Yong Kim as President?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/does-the-world-bank-board-have-the-authority-to-choose-jim-yong-kim-as-president.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/does-the-world-bank-board-have-the-authority-to-choose-jim-yong-kim-as-president.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Clemens</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8401</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Clemens - In a few days, the board of the World Bank will choose a new president. There are three candidates: an American physician and anthropologist (Jim Yong Kim), a Colombian economist (José Antonio Ocampo), and a Nigerian economist (Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala). All 12 presidents in the 66-year history of the World Bank have been American. Lant Pritchett [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Bank Executive Directors: Show Us Your Scorecard</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/world-bank-executive-directors-show-us-your-scorecard.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/world-bank-executive-directors-show-us-your-scorecard.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lant Pritchett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8380</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Lant Pritchett - The World Bank’s Board committed itself in April 2011 to choosing its next president through an &#8220;an open, structured, deliberate process.”   Currently there are nearly unanimous calls for the selection among the existing three nominees to be based on an “open, transparent, competitive and merit-based” process.  Unfortunately the “smart money” in the world’s capitals still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Okonjo-Iweala Appeals to U.S. “Cherished Values” in Selection of World Bank President</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/okonjo-iweala-appeals-to-u-s-%e2%80%9ccherished-values%e2%80%9d-in-selection-of-world-bank-president.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/okonjo-iweala-appeals-to-u-s-%e2%80%9ccherished-values%e2%80%9d-in-selection-of-world-bank-president.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence MacDonald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8365</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Lawrence MacDonald - Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former managing director of the World Bank and the coordinating minister for the economy and minister of finance in Nigeria, made her case for her bid to be the next president of the World Bank at a CGD-Washington Post Live event on Monday, showing the persuasive powers and qualifications she would use [...]]]></description>
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