Category Archives: world bank

Follow-ups: Chase, Rogoff

Chase responds to the security-breach video; Le Monde falls for Ken Rogoff’s fake Wolfowitz memo.
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Wolfowitz, Rogoff, and Intrade

Ken Rogoff laughs in Paul Wolfowitz’s face.
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Ashraf Ghani for World Bank President?

Gabriel Rozenberg has a startling
article
in the Times today saying not only that the White House was "drawing
up a list of candidates to succeed" the embattled Paul Wolfowitz, but that
"most prominent on the list" is Ashraf Ghani.

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Can Wolfowitz Just Resign Already?

Worldbankpresident.org has been gloriously resuscitated with everything you ever wanted to know about Paul Wolfowitz, Shaha Riza, the long list of people calling for Wolfowitz’s ouster, and the much shorter list of Wolfowtiz defenders.
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Wolfowitz Must Go

If Paul Wolfowitz hangs on to his job, an unpopular lame duck, that would be the worst possible outcome in terms of energizing the Bank’s staff to do its vital work of fighting poverty.
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