The World Bank is resisting efforts to create a truly independent review of its stewardship over foreign aid.

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After fifty years and more than two trillion dollars in aid, the West has strikingly little to show for its efforts in alleviating global poverty. How much does the world really know about fostering economic growth...

No one with a heart or with a brain can dispute that total cancellation of the debt of the world's poorest nations is a given in our collective progress toward global economic balance.

Vigilante non-governmental organisations have become the de facto regulators of the flow of finance to the developing world.

As Washington struggles to reach an agreement on the proposed bailout, and Wall Street awaits its future, AEI scholars offer insights into what is needed to protect the financial system.

As the role of the World Bank diminishes, capital fromprivate lendersto developing nations has increased by three hundred times.

AEI scholars available to comment on the G-8 summit at Gleneagles.

Developing economies no longer orbit around the International Monetary Fund.