Purposes should not be confused with mechanics. The Bank must accept that it is in the development business, not the banking business.

The World Bank should be restructured in order to meet the development needs of the poorest countries it was originally designed to assist.

By resisting revaluation, Mr. Hu is making China poorer in order to maintain the principle of communist control of the economy and so understands that leaders often must act on principle.

Two developments have intensified calls for UN reform: the recent history of the UN Human Rights Commission and the scandal regarding the oil-for-food program in Iraq.

In the end, it is the demands that are at the very center of the World Bank's mission thatwill be sacrificed to maintain competitiveness.

Efforts by the international community to engage Iran have utterly failed, leaving regime change as the key to solving the problem.

While the world’s attention is focused on a struggling Iraq and a rising China, a battle for the heart and soul of the Americas is being waged closer to home.

Often failing to fulfill its assigned mandates and unable to implement the initiatives it has begun, the UN's World Health Organization desperately needs to reform.