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CGD in the News
May 07, 2014
Arvind Subramanian, a development economist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, shares a similar perspective. While there are crucial challenges that call for international collaboration (climate change, new vaccines for diseases of the developing world and technologies to advance...
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12:30—2:00 PM
May 07, 2013
Should India, a lower-middle income country that has its own space program and yet is home to more than 400 million people who live on less than $1.25 a day, graduate from IDA, the World Bank’s concessional finance window for the world’s poorest countries? Ravi Kanbur will use this hotly debated que...
Blog Post
May 17, 2012
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 poss...
Blog Post
February 28, 2012
This post is joint with Arvind Subramanian
The next World Bank president will need the legitimacy and wide support that only an open and merit-based selection process can ensure. This is now commonly agreed. The best way to ensure legitimacy is to have more than one serious candidate. The Oba...