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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...
Blog Post
May 19, 2011
This is a joint post with Wren Elhai.
It seems everyone has an opinion on what the U.S. should do with its aid to Pakistan. In recent weeks, there have been calls to freeze all assistance to Pakistan – military and economic –and calls to stay the course. Nearly three in four Americans back cu...