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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...
ESSAYS
June 24, 2010
In this short essay, senior fellow David Wheeler compares the world’s foreign assistance architecture to how the rest of the world operates in the digital age. He suggests that multilateral and bilateral transactions from one behemoth to another may be stuck in the past now that technology can and...
WORKING PAPERS
February 15, 2008
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for a revolutionary change in the world's energy mix. So why is the World Bank conducting business as usual? This new working paper by CGD senior fellow David Wheeler focuses on the bank's latest proposed venture, a huge coal-fired plant to be fueled by the ...
WORKING PAPERS
June 11, 2007
CGD's online survey of views on selecting the World Bank's next president received nearly 700 responses from people representing 71 nations; all world regions; high-, middle- and low-income countries; a variety of professional affiliations; and all adult age groups. In a new working paper analyzing ...
New from CGD
May 24, 2007
A CGD survey of members of the international development community found overwhelming support for reforming the process of selecting the president of the World Bank. About 85 percent of the more than 700 people who responded since the survey was launched last week agreed that the bank should be head...
New from CGD
May 22, 2007
The resignation of Paul Wolfowitz has sparked a global debate about the choice of the next World Bank president. To help inform this debate, CGD has launched an online survey of views on the selection process, the desired qualifications, and perceptions of the qualifications of some of the possible ...