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Did the Minister do right?
I recently ended my two years as an ED in The World Bank Group in representation of Venezuela and seven other countries. Even though it sounds strange, I was nominated for that job through a process...
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In search of a title
I was from November 2002 until October 2004 one of 24 Executive Directors of the World Bank and having written a book that relates to that I was in search of a title. ??????????By Per KurowskiAn...
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Some photos from my ED trips, work in progress
Crossing rivers Taking to the air Working in the air Exhausted host ED napping On a little side tour to find Nemo The magnificent (and only) seven ties in town Tired but well received Blessed by the...
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My book at the World Bank's InfoShop
Friends,What is Voice for, if you’re not willing to risk making some noise with it! Once when someone here said that luckily the demonstrations against the Bank were not as big as they used to be, I...
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THE CONTENTS OF VOICE AND NOISE
IntroductionThe World Bank Group? (WBG)/ The Executive Directors?/ The Nongovernmental Organizations?/ The Millennium Development Goals?/ 205 Development Topics! —listed on the World Bank Web siteMy ED...
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Samoa…as far as you can go!
When I visited beautiful Samoa (2003) and had a chance to hear a bit about their tourism strategy, I sensed they were making too many efforts to minimize the cost of their remoteness, when they might...
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The Big Questions to Einstein
Ask anyone of the older generation whether he liked the cold war and he will answer, gosh NO. But ask him whether things were clearer then and he will most certainly answer, golly YES. Are these...
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About matching impossible results with correct procedures
Since the world was aware that Venezuela is a polarized nation and needs credible elections so as to be able to work out their internal differences peacefully, the Organization of the American States...
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60 words per minute
It should be so extremely evident that for a kid to be able to learn and progress in school he needs to be able read sufficiently fluent, but perhaps it is not, and therefore many kids will be laggards...
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Who ever promised life in the curse lane was easy?
Yes, Chad could not resist messing around with the mechanism of the transparency initiative for managing their oil income, and yes the World Bank could not just let them do so. But why should anyone...
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Of Mangos and Bananas
For several reasons, the debate about the global economy has recently reminded me of fruit. The wise Henri Pitier wrote his Manual about Common Plants in Venezuela in 1926. In it he wrote the following...
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Thou shall not PowerPoint
• Dear Colleagues,• When we were small, our fathers taught us never to FingerPoint anyone, and today we also need to teach kids not to PowerPoint one another.• Yes, I have seen some splendid use of...
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To write or not to write … by hand
My father always thought good handwriting to be one of the foremost proofs of a good education and he was most certainly right, in his own time and way. Unfortunately, nowadays, you do not have that...
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On the World Bank’s fight against corruption
A global world that requires so many sacrifices to solve its global problems will not be able to do so if it must swim in too dirty corrupt waters. Therefore, fighting against corruption must be at the...
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The World Bank needs to go truly Global
Many seem to opine that if only the votes and the composition of the Executive Boards of the World Bank (and the IMF) reflected better current economic size, then global imbalances had a better chance...
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Local strawberries in season
Although I appreciate being able to eat strawberries-in-winter I still miss those very special strawberries that you could only get only once a year, early summer, in strawberry season. As an economist...
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Voice and Noise questions donated to Dropping Knowledge
Someone urged me to donate questions included in my Voice and Noise to http://www.droppingknowledge.org/ and after I saw what they were up to I went fishing and came up with the following 64! that I...
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My book
You can find it here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1419620827/And if YOUR voice is noisy enough:athttp:/www.thebookstoreofyourchoice.com/ref//perkurowski's/splendid/voiceandnoise/bestseller
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Yes, it had snowed a little, but never would I have imagined when I arrived for an early-morning conference at the World Bank that I would find the meeting had been suspended because of “inclement...
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