Campaigners launch action against Larry Summers nomination
A campaign group in the US has launched an online petition demanding that President Obama NOT nominate Larry Summers. The campaign group is called UltraViolet and it “fight[s] to expand women’s rights...
View ArticleObama advisor says why Larry Summers won’t be the US nominee
Valerie Jarrett, a senior White House advisor, made it clear in an interview why it’s just as well Larry Summers is happy as President Emeritus at Harvard. In this Daily Beast interview Jarrett used...
View ArticleDiscordant NGOs on second favourite Sachs
While some have remarked about the consistency of civil society organisation input on the process, no one can claim that NGOs present a unanimous voice. To spice things up a bit John Cavanagh and Robin...
View ArticleWith Larry Summers’ World Bank Bid in Trouble, Mexico Insists on Open Process
Early last week the New York Times reported that despite all the previous fine rhetoric about the G20 and consultation and open process, the US Treasury Department had decided to rule by decree and...
View ArticleSusan Rice candidacy in trouble
Between the idle speculation about various “dream” non-candidates (Lula, Sri Mulyani, Bachelet, Ngozi), the shameless self-promotion by academics (Sachs), and the attacks on Larry Summers after the...
View ArticleFor My Mother: Don’t Let Larry Summers Lead the World Bank
Life has a way sometimes of throwing two superficially unrelated things across your path simultaneously in a way that forces you to contemplate their underlying connections. Even at this late date,...
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