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Blog Post
May 23, 2011
This post also appeared on the Huffington Post.
A Bretton Woods project statement issued on April 6 was prescient indeed:
The MD must be, and must be seen to be wholly independent of any national or regional interest. This is particularly important when the home state is a powerful member of the...
Blog Post
May 20, 2011
This is a joint post with Lawrence MacDonald.
Even an avid consumer of the news and commentary on Obama’s speech on the Middle East yesterday could easily miss his proposals for supporting job-creating economic growth and development in the region. But long after we have forgotten the media b...
Blog Post
May 20, 2011
This is a joint post with David Roodman.
The Dominique Strauss-Kahn debacle has unexpectedly forced the first leadership turnover at a Bretton Woods institution since the global financial crisis—the first leadership transition in what we might call the G-20 world. The tacit deal that has long...