About Face?: The United States and the United NationsRobert W. Gregg Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1993, pp. vii, 181 - The United States and the Politicization of the World Bank: Issues of International Law and PolicyBartram S. Brown London: Kegan Paul International, 1992, pp. xvii, 295

1994 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 651-652
Author(s):  
Donald Abelson
2009 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Katz Cogan

In 2005, when James Wolfensohn announced that he would not seek a third term as president of the World Bank, few doubted that another United States national, the choice of the U.S. president, would take his place. Each of the previous eight presidents of the bank had been an American, dating back to the international financial institution's establishment in 1946,and despite private and public grousing by some over the Bush administration's eventual choice of Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz as Wolfensohn's successor, the appointment was never truly in jeopardy. When the bank's executive directors met to elect a new president, the vote was a foregone conclusion—not because the United States holds a majority of votes itself (it does not), but because a longstanding informal agreement between the United States and the bank's western European stakeholders prescribed that outcome.


2020 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 02013
Author(s):  
Yonghui CAO ◽  
He JIANG

The World Bank publishes the business environment report every year, ranking the business environment of 190 economies in the world. This paper mainly compares and analyzes the relevant indicators of marketization, legalization and internationalization between China and New Zealand, Singapore, the United States, and points out the existing problems and future improvement measures, so as to provide reference for further improving the competitiveness of business environment in China.


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