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Financial Sector Assessments’ Disputed Formula

The IMF and World Bank prior to the annual meetings offered a third review of the 15-year old joint financial ...

IMF Quota Legislation’s Private Sector Breakout

Four years after initial agreement at a G-20 summit and a year after another IMF quota review was due, the ...

The World Bank’s Speed Bump Signal

The World Bank’s half-year Global Economic Prospects update described a “bumpy start” which will keep global growth under 3 percent ...

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, ...

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 ...

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