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The Hardest Job in the World: Five Crucial Tasks for the New President of the World Bank

By Nancy Birdsall, Devesh Kapur

Center for Global Development, June 1, 2005

This report sets out five crucial tasks for the World Bank president to tackle over the next five years. They are tasks for which the president— through a combination of charm, cajoling, and horse-trading—must corral the Bank’s recalcitrant collective of member governments, including its single largest shareholder, the United States, to take action – action critical to securing the Bank’s credibility, legitimacy and effectiveness for the twenty-first century.

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