The World Bank has long been a favored retirement village for American warhawks. Considering the fact that World Bank is ostensibly about making loans to developing counties for capital improvements, it’s significant that three of the 11 World Bank...

The World Bank has long been a favored retirement village for American warhawks. Considering the fact that World Bank is ostensibly about making loans to developing counties for capital improvements, it’s significant that three of the 11 World Bank...

While he has been largely anonymous in the role since then, that, given the controversy which surrounded Mr Wolfowitz's tenure, may have been no bad thing.Mr Wolfowitz was eventually forced to quit as World Bank president when it emerged that he had...

Wolfensohn, the master networker who led the World Bank into this century, lined the window of his office with silver-framed photographs of the global elite. Paul Wolfowitz, the neoconservative defence expert who succeeded him, replaced them with...

...a job that has always gone to an American.The Obama administration said it would open the process to competition, marking the first time it has shown willingness to loosen its grip on the world's top development lender.Mr Zoellick took the reins at the Bank...

Probably the most harmless statement Buchanan ever made was to perpetuate the Myth that the Jews controls foreign policy. In Buchanan's essay "Whose War" he blames the Iraq war on a bunch of mostly Jewish public figures such as Bill Kristol, Paul...

For sure, Obama would like to place a Democrat at the World Bank, which lent $57 billion in its last fiscal year. Zoellick, 58, a Republican appointed in 2007 by President George W. Bush , was well-regarded for having brought stability to the job after...

The Obama administration said it would open the process to competition, marking the first time it has shown willingness to loosen its grip on the world's top development lender. Zoellick took the reins at the Bank in 2007 after a staff revolt pushed...

The Obama administration said it would open the process to competition, marking the first time it has shown willingness to loosen its grip on the world's top development lender. Zoellick took the reins at the Bank in 2007 after a staff revolt pushed...

Zoellick, a former U.S. trade representative, took over an institution bruised by the scandal that engulfed his predecessor, Paul Wolfowitz, who resigned over his involvement in giving his companion an unusually large pay raise and promotion. A veteran...

The Obama administration said it would open the process to competition, marking the first time it has shown willingness to loosen its grip on the world's top development lender. Zoellick took the reins at the Bank in 2007 after a staff revolt pushed...

Zoellick is widely credited with restoring the reputation of the institution after his predecessor Paul Wolfowitz was forced from office amid allegations he had broken Bank rules by promoting his then girlfriend Shaha Ali Riza to a senior post within...

A former US trade representative and deputy secretary of state, Zoellick took the job in July 2007, just as the US financial crisis began to erupt. Ethics cloud He replaced Paul Wolfowitz, the former US defence secretary who held the job for two years...

He declined to answer questions from reporters about Summers and Clinton, saying he would not discuss speculation. Zoellick, a former U.S. trade representative, took over an institution bruised by the scandal that engulfed his predecessor Paul...

Second, it matters who runs the bank because the world has big problems the bank can help to address, and big opportunities the bank can advance. In a 2006 in CGD report, we outlined five tasks for the then-incoming president (who turned out to be Paul...

A former US Trade Representative and deputy secretary of state, Zoellick took the job in July 2007, just as the US financial crisis began to erupt. He replaced Paul Wolfowitz, the former US defense secretary who held the job for two years before...

The most recent presidents both hailed from the administration of George W. Bush. Zoellick, the former deputy secretary of State, replaced Paul Wolfowitz in 2007. Wolfowitz, who was second in command at the Pentagon, resigned from the World Bank after...

Bank on June 30th, the international banking institution announced Wednesday. “The Bank is now strong, healthy and well positioned for new challenges, and so it is a natural time for me to move on and support new leadership,” Zoellick said in a statement.

A former US Trade Representative and deputy secretary of state, Mr Zoellick took the job in July 2007, just as the US financial crisis began to erupt. He replaced Paul Wolfowitz, the former US defence secretary who held the job for two years before...