The 2016 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings ODI On... | 5 - 3 October 2016 ODI is in Washington DC from 7-9 October to engage policymakers and partners around the 2016 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Find out more
India’s ‘Rexit’: central bank uncertainty raises risk Briefing papers | July 2016 | Phyllis Papadavid and Stephen Gelb This edition of ODI’s Macroeconomic impact series analyses the impact of the resignation of Reserve Bank of India Governor, Raghuram Rajan, last month. Downloads
The problem with development banks' environmental and social safeguards Comment | 14 April 2016 | Chris Humphrey Multilateral development banks need to help strengthen national laws and regulations in developing countries rather than just protect themselves against criticism. Read and comment
‘We need a faster, bigger and more effective World Bank’ Comment | 14 April 2016 | Kevin Watkins interviews Mark Lowcock Ahead of the World Bank's spring meeting, the Permanent Secretary at the UK’s Department for International Development tells us how the institution needs to reform. Read and comment
Developmental revolution or Bretton Woods revisited? Research reports and studies | April 2015 | Chris Humphrey The BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) represent a bold step toward reordering the global system of development finance institutions. This paper analyses the creation and potential operational scale of the two banks. Download
New China-led development bank gains support, despite US pressure Comment | 26 March 2015 | Zhenbo Hou 'Not reforming the existing Bretton Woods institutions to accommodate the reality of the 21st century has only encouraged China to set up parallel systems from scratch.' Read and comment
Telling it like it isn’t: budgeting in the real world Comment | 4 November 2013 | Bryn Welham 'National budgets are an important tool for development but don’t always deliver what they say they will. How they are presented to the world can bear little resemblance to the way money gets spent on the ground.' Read and comment
Coordinated monetary policy is a global public good, but will the G20 provide it? Comment | 27 August 2013 | Dirk Willem te Velde 'Can the upcoming G20 summit on 5-6 September step up to the challenge and smooth out this recent bout of volatility in the world economy? Will their actions be in the best interest of the poorest and most vulnerable economies? And what are the wider implications... Read and comment
Jim Kim’s ‘science of delivery’: what role for politics? Comment | 13 August 2013 | Kevin Watkins 'When the World Bank adopts a new idea, trickle-down effects swiftly follow. So when Jim Kim, the Bank’s President, announces that ‘the science of delivery’ will be a hallmark of his tenure, we should all sit up, pay attention and ask the obvious question – the... Read and comment
Telling countries they're the worst in the world doesn't really help them Comment | 16 July 2013 | Claire Leigh 'Ranking fragile states is pointless: citizens in countries like South Sudan are better placed to address weakness than outsiders.' Read and comment
