Emerging Capital Markets and Globalizationby A. De la Torre and S. Schmukler ( Stanford University Press and the World Bank, 2008)

2009 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-149
Author(s):  
Laura Tedesco
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Emerging Capital Markets

scholarly journals The New Role for the World Bank

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Clemens ◽  
Michael Kremer
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Private Capital ◽  
International Capital ◽  
International Capital Markets ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Private Capital Flows

The World Bank was founded to address what we would today call imperfections in international capital markets. Its founders thought that countries would borrow from the Bank temporarily until they grew enough to borrow commercially. Some critiques and analyses of the Bank are based on the assumption that this continues to be its role. For example, some argue that the growth of private capital flows to the developing world has rendered the Bank irrelevant. However, we will argue that modern analyses should proceed from the premise that the World Bank’s central goal is and should be to reduce extreme poverty, and that addressing failures in global capital markets is now of subsidiary importance. In this paper, we discuss what the Bank does: how it spends money, how it influences policy, and how it presents its mission. We argue that the role of the Bank is now best understood as facilitating international agreements to reduce poverty, and we examine implications of this perspective.

World Bank/USAID co-hosted debate on "funding allocations for HIV/AIDS", webcasted live from the World Bank

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Mah ◽  
Marelize Gorgens ◽  
Elizabeth Ashbourne ◽  
Cristina Romero ◽  
Nejma Cheikh
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Hiv Aids

Inside the World Bank

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Yi-chong ◽  
Patrick Weller
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World
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