When The Learning Curve Is Long (Economist)

The Economist quotes CGD senior fellow David Wheeler on the World Bank's efforts to mitigate climate change.

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"David Wheeler, a former World Bank economist who is now at the Centre for Global Development, a think-tank, says such tensions are bound to persist. The bank’s regional units are under pressure to meet lending targets and get money out to governments. In that culture, the bank’s bureaucrats won’t work too hard on goals that hold little appeal for client countries."

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