World Bank

The academic and blogger mourns the world’s bullies, takes on Piketty, and predicts Canada will never have its own Silicon Valley.

70 years since Bretton Woods, the multilateral system is once again in need of reinvention. Brett House on what to do.

An interview with Aleem Walji, Director of the World Bank’s Innovation Labs.

Images from Syria are on display at the World Bank. The target audience is the 188 finance ministers there for the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings.

Brett House on why the IMF-World Bank meetings currently underway in Washington are just one way the international community collaborates on the economy.

Bessma Momani on what to do about our anemic economic growth path.

President Obama did not nominate Jeffrey Sachs to the presidency of the World Bank. He also did not nominate Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. In some ways, though, President Obama nominated a hybrid of the two most highly touted candidates. In the Korean-born Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Obama checks the development box and, at least partially, the non-American […]

Last fall, I participated in a workshop hosted by L’Idée Fédérale, a think tank in Montreal headed by one of our Roundtable bloggers, André Pratte.  The topic was modest – “A Bold New Vision for Canada” – and we were all tasked with presenting on an aspect of our changing federation, in my case foreign […]