"Global Governance Reform: Breaking the Stalemate" discussed at the InfoShop on April 2, 2007, at 12:00 pm in J1-050

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Global Governance Reform
Breaking the Stalemate
by Edited by Colin I. Bradford, Jr. , Johannes F. Linn

Are the international institutions up to the tasks of the twenty-first century?
The International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and UN were set up after World War
II, and their structures of voting power and representation have changed little
in the face of deep-seated shifts in the world?s balance of economic and
political power.  The current global challenges such as terrorism, poverty,
nuclear proliferation, trade and financial integration, and climate change,
demand coordinated global action, at a time when the line between national and
international action has become increasingly blurred. How can the global
governance system and international institutions such as the Bretton Woods
Institutions, the UN, and key global trade, health and environmental bodies
respond to these challenges?

Monday, April 2, 2007 from 12:00pm - 2:00pm
World Bank J Building - J1-050 701 18th Street, NW

Presented by authors
Colin I. Bradford, Jr.
Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution
Colin I. Bradford, Jr. is a nonresident senior fellow in the Brookings
Institution?s Global Economy and Development program.  Previously he was chief
economist at the U.S. Agency for International Development, and he has also held
senior positions in the OECD, World Bank, the U.S Treasury Department, and the
U.S. Senate.  He taught at Yale University for ten years and at American
University for six years as well as at Georgetown University and at the Johns
Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. Over the last ten years, he
has played significant roles in the development of the Millennium Development
Goals.

Johannes F. Linn
Executive Director of the Wolfensohn Center for Development & Senior Fellow at
Brookings Institution
Johannes F. Linn is the executive director of the Wolfensohn Center for
Development and a senior fellow in the Brookings Institution?s Global Economy
and Development program.  During 1991-95 he was a vice president of the World
Bank, first for Financial Policy and Resource Mobilization and subsequently for
Europe and Central Asia.  In previous years starting in the 1970s he served as
an economist in many areas of the World Bank, including as staff director of the
World Development Report 1988 on public finance.  He has recently been the
director of the UNDP Human Development Report on regional cooperation in Central
Asia.

Chaired by
Amar Bhattacharya
Senior Advisor, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network, World Bank
Amar Bhattacharya is a key spokesperson on the Bank's financial architecture and
how the Bank works with the International Monetary Fund. Since joining the Bank
in 1979, he has had a long-standing involvement in the East Asia region,
including as division chief for country operations in Indonesia, Papua New
Guinea and the South Pacific, and chief officer for country creditworthiness. He
was team leader of a special World Bank study that examined the policy
implications of private capital flows and financial integration for developing
countries, and was part of the Bank's senior team focusing on the East Asia
crisis.
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