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Blog Post
July 13, 2011
This is a joint post with Charles Kenny
Zambia and Ghana are the 27th and 28th countries the World Bank has reclassified as middle-income since the year 2000
Doctors perform cataract surgery at the Lusaka Eye Hospital in Zambia. It's inexpensive and it changes people's lives in...
Blog Post
July 05, 2011
This is a joint post with Michele de Nevers.
The World Bank’s expanding public information mandate is the focus of Stephanie Strom’s excellent article in Saturday’s New York Times. During Robert Zoellick’s tenure as the Bank’s president, he has promoted free public access to databases that f...
Blog Post
June 30, 2011
This is a joint post with Stephanie Majerowicz
The World Bank’s Shanta Devarajan and Marcelo Giugale in yesterday’s Guardian Poverty Matters blog write:
Except for Botswana, the track record of Africa's mineral and hydrocarbon exporters is sobering. While Africa's central banks are tod...
Blog Post
May 20, 2011
Why is the World Health Organization (WHO) facing a financial crisis at a time when international support for global health issues has never been higher? The answer to this question cannot be found in any of the documents circulated for the 2011 World Health Assembly this week, but most observers ci...