How western states keep the lead in international organizations even as they lose relative economic weight: recent events at the World Bank, IMF, UN and UNCTAD - Events - Centre of African StudiesHow western states keep the lead in international organizations even as they lose relative economic weight: recent events at the World Bank, IMF, UN and UNCTAD
Packed house for Prof Wade’s (@LSE_ID) @africanstudies talk on Western states&governance of multilateral institutions pic.twitter.com/NBw6680Bu1https://twitter.com/pete_kingsley/status/575690828791869441
— Pete Kingsley (@pete_kingsley)Wed, Mar 11 2015 16:12:44- Prof Wade: No MDGs on economic growth;USAID mission statement emphasises tackling poverty abroad whilst advancing ‘our’ (i.e. US) prosperity
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— Pete Kingsley (@pete_kingsley)Wed, Mar 11 2015 16:16:17 - Wade: Why a shift in aid agenda? From economic and industrial policy in Cold War era, to emphasis on environmental, health, education etc
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— Pete Kingsley (@pete_kingsley)Wed, Mar 11 2015 16:18:38 - Prof Wade - in 1980s, lots of World Bank engineers, chemists etc either left or rebranded themselves as, say, environmental specialists.
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— Pete Kingsley (@pete_kingsley)Wed, Mar 11 2015 16:19:43 - Wade: At Cold War’s end, less important to build successful economies as exemplars of capitalism. Instead, nationally determined priorities.
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— Pete Kingsley (@pete_kingsley)Wed, Mar 11 2015 16:26:23 - Wade - unclear exactly how Western business interests have shaped aid. US suspicion of govt might mean more aid in non-state projects.
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— Pete Kingsley (@pete_kingsley)Wed, Mar 11 2015 16:30:59 - Wade - WB is shaped by post-materialist priorities of West (health, environment, etc), despite majority of members being non-Western. Why?
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— Pete Kingsley (@pete_kingsley)Wed, Mar 11 2015 16:33:08 - Wade - what are mechanisms for Western control? One is gentleman’s agreement that WB president (who is both CEO/chairman) will be US figure.
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— Pete Kingsley (@pete_kingsley)Wed, Mar 11 2015 16:34:23 - At @africanstudies talk: Obama’s nomination for WB president: Intrigue unpopular university president Kim beating more qualified candidates
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— Pete Kingsley (@pete_kingsley)Wed, Mar 11 2015 16:42:16 - Wade - we know of Kim’s unpopularity and the deals that the US treasurer department cut to install him from Wikileaks.
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— Pete Kingsley (@pete_kingsley)Wed, Mar 11 2015 16:44:04 - Wade - reorganisation of WB - now ongoing for 2 yrs - a disaster. Nancy Birdsall expressed similar concerns last year http://bit.ly/1Ag5GW6
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— Pete Kingsley (@pete_kingsley)Wed, Mar 11 2015 16:46:07 - Wade: G7 determined to keep economic policy under purview of WB&IMF, not institutions with broader representation (e.g. UN General Assembly)
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— Pete Kingsley (@pete_kingsley)Wed, Mar 11 2015 16:59:27 - Wade - Response of non-G7 countries 1) push for bigger share of votes, senior positions in WB/IMF. 2) create alternative institutions
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— Pete Kingsley (@pete_kingsley)Wed, Mar 11 2015 17:01:37
Wade’s conclusion: now a fragmentations of global regimes, ad-hoc ‘spaghetti balls’ of agreements and rules instead pic.twitter.com/MfmcLKOxfzhttps://twitter.com/pete_kingsley/status/575704074869432320
— Pete Kingsley (@pete_kingsley)Wed, Mar 11 2015 17:05:22- Wade - in 3-4 years time, situation will be v. different. Fears about middle income countries - Russia, Mexico, Turkey, etc all faltering.
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— Pete Kingsley (@pete_kingsley)Wed, Mar 11 2015 17:06:37 - Wade - it will be a minor miracle if we don’t have another major financial crisis in the next few years.
https://twitter.com/pete_kingsley/status/575704699636170752
— Pete Kingsley (@pete_kingsley)Wed, Mar 11 2015 17:07:51 - Wade - (last tweet): Critical for developing countries to have high quality diplomats to protect their interests.
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— Pete Kingsley (@pete_kingsley)Wed, Mar 11 2015 17:08:05 - Wade’s Q&A: a scandal that IMF & WB lent so little to infrastructure projects in Africa, Latin America, & Asia. Should have been 10x greater
https://twitter.com/pete_kingsley/status/575707946358808576
— Pete Kingsley (@pete_kingsley)Wed, Mar 11 2015 17:20:45 - Great @africanstudies seminar today: States and pol. power in multilateral organisations, by Robert Wade from the LSE http://www.cas.ed.ac.uk/events/seminar_series/2014_2015/how_western_states_keep_the_lead_in_international_organizations_even_as_they_lose_relative_economic_weight_recent_events_at_the_world_bank,_imf,_un_and_unctad …
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— James Smith (@jrsmith73)Wed, Mar 11 2015 10:02:32
Great to have Robert Wade to speak at the @africanstudies seminar! pic.twitter.com/MWMD2egNgxhttps://twitter.com/SJ_CK/status/575962323921281024
— SJ CK (@SJ_CK)Thu, Mar 12 2015 10:11:33
Prof. Robert Wade, CAS Lecture, March 2015
Professor Robert Wade from the Department of International Development at LSE (@LSE_ID) presents at the Centre of African Studies (@africanstudies), University of Edinburgh.
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