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December 8, 2014

Global
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Economic Development and the Paris Climate Agreement

Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank Group, joins Mark Tercek, president and chief executive officer at the Nature Conservancy, to discuss the World Bank Group’s efforts vis-à-vis climate change…

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Event by Jim Yong Kim and Mark Tercek

September 3, 2013

Global
Stanley Fischer, Former Bank of Israel Governor and Former IMF and World Bank Official, Joins CFR as Distinguished Fellow

Stanley Fischer, Former Bank of Israel Governor and Former IMF and World Bank Official, Joins CFR as Distinguished Fellow

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December 8, 2014

Global
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Economic Development and the Paris Climate Agreement

Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank Group, joins Mark Tercek, president and chief executive officer at the Nature Conservancy, to discuss the World Bank Group’s efforts vis-à-vis climate change…

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October 31, 2024

Russia
Why Expanded BRICS Is Backing a Russia-Initiated Grain Exchange

In a move to reshape global agricultural trade, the 2024 BRICS Kazan Declaration has thrown its weight behind the creation of a BRICS Grain Exchange. 

An agricultural company head Mykolaiv Havrylenko checks wheat inside in a truck during a harvesting in a field, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine June 29, 2024.
Blog Post by Zongyuan Zoe Liu and Nadia Clark Asia Unbound

November 3, 2024

Economics
The U.S. Income Balance Puzzle

The long-standing surplus in the U.S. investment income account, often cited as evidence of  “exorbitant privilege,” is receding. It already goes away without the income from profit-shifting by U.S. …

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Blog Post by Brad W. Setser and Michael Weilandt Follow the Money

October 11, 2017

Diplomacy and International Institutions
Trump, the World Bank, and the IMF: Explaining the Dog that Didn’t Bark (Yet)

A big surprise of Donald Trump’s “America First” presidency has been the moderate tone he has adopted toward the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), which hold their annual meetings in …

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, U.S. President Donald J. Trump, Ivanka Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany on July 8, 2017.
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist

October 3, 2019

Eurozone
The Role of the European Central Bank

As Europe has weathered a succession of economic crises, the European Central Bank has responded with an aggressive set of monetary policies that have redefined the bank’s original mandate.

Workers repair the euro sign in front of ECB headquarters
Backgrounder by James McBride, Andrew Chatzky, and Christopher Alessi