Bretton Woods@75 Compendium

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Bretton Woods Conference and chart a path forward for the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization, the Bretton Woods Committee is proud to announce the release of the Bretton Woods@75 Compendium: Revitalizing the Spirit of Bretton Woods: 50 Perspectives on the Future of the Global Economic System.

 


Contributors

Foreword
Meg Lundsager

THE SPIRIT OF BRETTON WOODS: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

The Spirit of Bretton Woods
Paul A. Volcker

The Bretton Woods Mission: Before, Then, Now
Richard A. Debs

Rethinking Multilateralism for Our Future World
James D. Wolfensohn

LEADERSHIP OF THE BRETTON WOODS INSTITUTIONS

The Innovative Monetary Fund
Christine Lagarde

Common Purpose Advancing Development: 75 Years of Innovation for Progress and Shared Prosperity
David Malpass

Strengthening the WTO for the Future
Roberto Azevédo

MULTILATERAL COOPERATION AND SYSTEMS CHANGE

Building the New Cooperative International Order
Tharman Shanmugaratnam

The World of More Unpredictable and Harder-to-Understand National and Global Economies
Mohamed A. El-Erian

Bretton Woods at 75: Rethinking Multilateral Cooperation for the Modern Era
Arminio Fraga

Has Globalization Peaked? Renewing the Prospect and Promise of Global Integration
Catherine L. Mann

Toward a New Economy of Trust
Philippe Amon

Better Business with Bretton Woods
Myron Brilliant and Gary Litman

Trans-sovereign Networks:  China's Role in the New Global Order
Keyu Jin

Reshaping Multilateralism as a Tool for Global Economic Prosperity
José Ángel Gurría

The Bretton Woods Regime in a Changing World Order
Toyoo Gyohten

EVOLVING GLOBAL ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE

True Finance
Mark Carney

The Bank for International Settlements: If It Didn't Exist, It Would Have to Be Invented
William C. Dudley

Global Financial Cooperation as a Legacy of Bretton Woods
Randal K. Quarles

Coordination in the Future Regulatory Environment
Axel A. Weber

Strengthening and Deepening the International Financial Architecture
Jean-Claude Trichet

The International Monetary System and Its Challenges for Emerging-Market Central Banks
Ksenia Yudaeva

Strengthening the Rules-Based International Monetary System
John B. Taylor

The Future of the Eurozone
Lorenzo Bini Smaghi

The Long March of China's Exchange Rate Regime Reform
Yu Yongding

The Bretton Woods Era: The Hidden, Misunderstood Role of Debt
Richard Vague

An Interconnected World: Bolstering Financial Resilience through Insurance
Walter B. Kielholz

The Governance of the International Monetary System
José Antonio Ocampo

MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS IN THE NEW DEVELOPMENT LANDSCAPE

Institutional Reform at the World Bank Group: Staying Relevant in the Modern Era
Sri Mulyani Indrawati

The Spirit of Bretton Woods, The World Bank and the Next 75 Years: From Where Within the Development Sphere Will Leadership on Bretton Woods Values Come?
Afsaneh M. Beschloss and Mina Mashayekhi

The MDBs: How Governance Matters
Nancy Birdsall

Drawing Lessons for an Evolving Multilateral System
Joachim Von Amsberg

Efficiency Does Matter in Development
Muhammad Sulaiman Al Jasser

A Call for a Paradigm Shift in Approaching Sustainable Investment
Thierry Déau

Reviving the Spirit of Bretton Woods: A Development Perspective
Abdlatif Y. Al-Hamad

Rising Role of Preferred Creditor Status in Ratings of Multilateral Development Banks
Mahesh K. Kotecha

GLOBAL TRADE AND THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION

Whither the World Trade Organization?
Martin Wolf

Is the Multilateral Trading System Fit for Purpose?
Mari Pangestu

Challenges to the WTO Dispute Settlement System
Celso Lafer

Global Gains from the WTO
James Bacchus

Trade Policy: The Legacy of Bretton Woods and the Politics of Today
Jim Kolbe

Upgrading and Strengthening the World Trade Organization
Carla A. Hills

FORCES OF CHANGE

Bank-Fund: Facing the Rising Challenges of Corruption
Frank Vogl and William R. Rhodes

A Call For Exceptional Business Leadership
Gail Kelly

The New Global Agenda: Scale, Urgency, and the Future of the Multilateral Development Bank System
Nicholas Stern and Amar Bhattacharya

A New Bretton Woods Vision for a Global Green New Deal
Andrew Sheng

Beyond Development: Rethinking Aid in an Era of Fragile States
David Miliband

In Search of a Global Approach to the Global Migration Crisis
Dambisa Moyo

Cyclical Crises in the 21st Century
Israel Klabin

Technology, the Future of Work, and Prospects for Developing Economies
Susan Lund and James Manyika

FUTURE OF THE BRETTON WOODS COMMITTEE

Reflections on the Future of the Bretton Woods Committee
Randy Rodgers

 


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