Posted at DEVEX By Sophie Edwards // 04 February 2019 LONDON — On Oct. 2, 2012, the World Bank’s Preston Auditorium is packed with staff waiting to catch a glimpse of their new…
The Wall Street Journal U.S. Contemplates Appointing First Female President of World Bank By Josh Zumbrun 24 January 2019 Copyright 2019 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…
Attempts to submit the World Bank to bilateral agendas or extreme views can only harm and paralyze the hummingbird Last week Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank,…
Like the "Sagrada Familia" in Barcelona (photo), institutions are built gradually. Evolution, rather than revolution... By Otaviano Canuto and Tiago Ribeiro dos Santos Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson caught…
Recent reforms have helped improve Brazil's business environment. Further changes could do away with the "Brazil cost" once and for all.
Otaviano Canuto’s farewell at the Board of the World Bank https://youtu.be/FcgJCCf3PSw
World Bank failing to follow watchdog advice, says IEG report By Sophie Edwards // 18 June 2018 World Bank chief executive Kristalina Georgieva. Photo by: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank / CC BY-NC-ND WASHINGTON…
Doing More While Doing Better: Results and Performance of the World Bank Group 2017 IEG WorldBankGroup Published on Jun 14, 2018 Following the recent capital increase and a record IDA…
What a $13B capital increase means for World Bank lending DEVEX By Sophie Edwards // 27 April 2018 WASHINGTON — The World Bank’s shareholders agreed last week they want to see a…
Financing development through financial intermediaries: Exploring best practices in transparency 19 APRIL 2018 Notes from the 19 April Civil Society Policy Forum session on financing development through financial intermediaries at…
19 April 2018 - Otaviano Canuto Manufacturing expansion has been a vehicle for job creation, productivity increases, and growth in non-advanced economies since the second half of the last…
My admiration for hummingbirds began in my native Brazil. The hummingbird’s flight patterns may seem a mystery as they shift from one flower to the next. But hummingbirds are…
The World Bank Malaysia Hub turns two! World Bank Group Executive Director Dr Otaviano Canuto shares how our engagement with Malaysia is transferring and leveraging knowledge for development.
Brown bag lunch of the Fullbright Network of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund Watch it here
Current technological developments in manufacturing are likely to lead to a partial reversal of the wave of fragmentation and global value chains that was at the core of the rise of North-South trade from 1990 onward. At the same time, China – the main hub of the global-growth-cum-structural-change of that period – may attempt to extend the previous wave through its One Belt, One Road initiative.