BRICS – The End of Western Dominance of the Global Financial and Economic Order By Shyam Saran* NEW DELHI, Jul 2014 (IPS) – The sixth BRICS Summit which has just ended in Brazil marks the transition of a grouping based hitherto on shared concerns to one based on …
Bretton Woods Bulletin February 2014 :
February 2014 Please find below the highlights of the Bretton Woods Bulletin February 2014, including: A Comment piece on the World Bank’s mechanisms by Andrea Rodriguez Osuna and Astrid Puentes; An At Issue briefing on the new brics bank by Sameer Dossani; A Guest Analysis piece on the IFC’s much-criticised investment in Tata’s Assam …
New Bretton Woods Update (No.85) March/April 2013 out now
Bretton Woods Update No. 85 March/April 2013 PDF version Please find below the highlights of the Bretton Woods Update No. 85(March/April 2013). BRICS challenge IFIs: Out of the frying pan into the fire? Large middle-income countries jointly initiated alternatives to the World Bank and IMF in March, but advocates are …
New Bretton Woods Update (No.84) Jan/Feb 2013 out now
Bretton Woods Update No. 84 January/February 2013 PDF version | At Issue PDF | text version Please find below the highlights of the Bretton Woods Update No. 84(January/February 2013). We have also launched a new At Issue briefing, The World Bank on Jobs: a “significant departure” or “business as usual”? by Public World’s Brendan Martin. forest …
New World Bank president: what’s on the agenda?
Bretton Woods Update No. 80 March/April 2012 New World Bank president: what’s on the agenda? An unprecedented competition for the presidency of the World Bank, with two highly experienced developing country candidates nominated in addition to the US candidate, has raised demands for reform of the Bank’s approach to middle-income …
Adair Turner on Beyond GDP
Adair Turner, head of their Financial Services Authority on what’s wrong with gdp! Keynote speech to Bretton Woods Conference 2011, Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) Click here to see the video!
Adair Turner on Beyond GDP
Adair Turner, head of their Financial Services Authority on what’s wrong with gdp! Keynote speech to Bretton Woods Conference 2011, Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) http://ineteconomics.org/video/bretton-woods/adair-lord-turners-keynote
Could Goldman Sachs Fail?
An article from The Baseline Scenario Could Goldman Sachs Fail? Posted: 14 Apr 2011 04:11 AM PDT By Simon Johnson. This link to MIT Sloan’s website provides a partial transcript and video covering the points made below. If Goldman Sachs were to hit a hypothetical financial rock, would they be …