Rescuing the World Bank A CGD Working Group Report & Selected Essays

How should the world's lagest and most influential development institution address the challenges of the 21st century? Ten distinguished speakers gathered on the eve of the World Bank/IMF 2005 Annual Meetings to offer fresh ideas on topics such as differentiated services for the poorest countries and the big, middle-income, and emerging market borrowers; global public goods; evaluation; and governance of the Bank itself. This collection of essays summarizes the speakers' presentations, providing a rich discussion of one of the world's great global institutions.

Nancy Birdsall is the founding president of the Center for Global Development, USA. Prior to launching the center, Birdsall was senior associate and director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 1993 to 1998, Birdsall was executive vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank, USA.