Africa/Global: Why it matters who runs the IMF and the World Bank

Increasing integration has made the great challenge of reducing poverty and advancing human development more achievable than ever, and more dependent than ever on good global economic governance. This paper from the Global Development Centre sets out the economic logic for why good global economic governance matters for reducing poverty and inequality in the world, and then develops several arguments for how better representation of developing countries in the IMF, the World Bank, and other multilateral institutions would make those institutions more effective in that task.