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The World Bank’s Untidy Portfolio Cleansing

The World Bank’s flagship Global Economic Prospects publication predicted a developing world growth uptick to almost 5.5 percent this year, ...

Doing Business’ Tempered Regulatory Template

Despite expert panel recommendations to change it methodology and Chinese government objections in particular to the lack of macroeconomic context, ...

The World Bank’s Sole Solutions Sop

New World Bank President Kim won member endorsement for his one-stop group knowledge and advisory strategy to end poverty in ...

The IMF’s Magnified Mini-Stress Test

The IMF’s biannual Global Financial Stability Report checkup charted increased emerging market risk with the “mini stress test” since May ...

MIGA’s Guarded Guarantee Gallop

The World Bank’s MIGA political risk insurance arm increased guarantees almost $3 billion the latest fiscal year, bringing the total ...

The World Economy’s Quarter-Point Quagmire

As widely signaled in Managing Director speeches, the IMF clipped its emerging and developing economy 2013 GDP growth forecast 0.3 ...

The IMF’s Regional Arrangement Disarray

The IMF, after clashing in particular with European partners over debt crisis rescues there, released a policy department paper attempting ...

The World Bank’s Scorched Scoring Terrain

As an independent panel criticized and recommended new direction for the World Bank’s decade-old Doing Business rankings, the fresh leadership ...

The Financial Stability Board’s Exercise Flab

At the recent Bretton Woods institution gathering the Basel-based Financial Stability Board associated both with the BIS and IMF barely ...

Low Rate Debt’s Bungled Bonanza

The IMF’s global financial system survey for the spring meetings cited reduced risk as the Cyprus rescue’s bail-in implications had ...

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