IS THE BRICS NEW DEVELOPMENT BANK A FLEDGLING ALTERNATIVE TO THE WORLD BANK?

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Welcome to the 42nd issue of the World Bank Trade Research Electronic Newsletter, a periodic E-mail publication containing abstracts of recent trade working papers, publications and other works. Additional information on the Bank’s Trade Research Team activities can be found on the recent redesigned World Bank Trade Research website (HUhttp://www.econ.worldbank.org/programs/tradeUH). This provi...

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Breaking the World Bank.

1 Molecular Medicine Program, Ottawa Health Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2 The University of Ottawa Centre for Neuromuscular Disease, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 3 Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 4 Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, 5 Department of Medicin...

The World Bank

Welcome to the 42nd issue of the World Bank Trade Research Electronic Newsletter, a periodic E-mail publication containing abstracts of recent trade working papers, publications and other works. Additional information on the Bank's Trade Research Team activities can be found on the recent redesigned World Bank Trade Research website (http://www.econ.worldbank.org/programs/trade). This provides ...

Sanjay Pradhan , The World Bank Group The Relevance of Political Science to the World Bank

By the mid 1990s, scholars, practitioners, and policy makers alike had begun to recognize the critical importance of good governance for growth and poverty reduction. Yet corruption, its mirror image, remained “taboo” at the World Bank up until the historic “cancer of corruption” speech in 1996 of then-Bank President James Wolfensohn that formally brought governance and anticorruption into the ...