May 31, 2011
The sudden resignation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn has sparked a global debate over the selection of the next head of the International Monetary Fund. French finance minister Christine Legarde, Europe’s nominee, has launched a round-the-world tour to promote her candidacy. Meanwhile, Agustin Carstins, the governor of...
May 24, 2011
May 17, 2011
When President Obama created the Global Health Fund (GHI) in May 2009, health policy gurus welcomed it as a pioneering effort to make US involvement in global health more coherent, strategic and systematic. Two years later, there has been some modest progress but questions abound about how the initiative will take shape...
May 9, 2011
Why are we providing some $1.5 billion per year in development
assistance to a country that couldn’t be bothered to find bin
Laden? Now that Osama is dead, what the heck are we still doing in
Pakistan?
On this special edition of the Global Prosperity Wonkcast I asked
these provocative questions of Nancy Birdsall,...
May 9, 2011
This week, 10,000 representatives from around the world will head to Istanbul for the fourth decadal meeting of the UN conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC-IV). Trade is likely to have a prominent place on the agenda. I invited senior fellow Kimberly Elliott, author of Delivering on Doha: Farm Trade and the...