Highlights

We Want To Hear From You: BWC Blog – COVID19

The Committee invites all members to submit their thought leadership on COVID-19 via the BWC Blog.

The Bretton Woods Committee Blog aims to help global leaders envision how to evolve and strengthen the current rules-based economic system and encourage policymakers to recommit to the “spirit of Bretton Woods” and the value of international economic cooperation. Calls for submissions vary dependent upon timely global events but submissions are encouraged on any relevant topic on an ongoing basis.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf:
What If Women Ruled The World

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a contributing author to the Bretton Woods@75 Compendium. Our Author Spotlight series highlights the thought leadership of contributing authors to the Bretton Woods@75 initiative.

Windows into the IFIs: The Outlook for Economic Growth and Investment in Asia

On January 27, the Bretton Woods Committee hosted its first virtual conference, Windows Into the IFIs: The Outlook for Economic Growth and Investment in Asia.

Winter 2020

Winter 2020

Winter Newsletter: Congratulating Janet Yellen, Rome Investment Forum, Blog Contribution Call, and Remembering Jim Wolfensohn

Kenneth I. Levinson:
WITA’s NextGenTrade® Presents: 21st Century Trade: Digital, Printed

While nations quarrel over sneakers and steel, trade policy is beginning to look beyond shipments of goods, say WITA’s Kenneth I. Levinson and Brunswick’s Robert Moran.

World Bank General Capital Increase, A Conversation with U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary Heath P. Tarbert

On Thursday, May 17, 2018 the Committee’s Legislative Task Force participated in a closed-door roundtable discussion with Assistant Secretary for International Markets and Investment Policy Heath Tarbert and a small group of Treasury officials from the Office of Multilateral Development Banks. The conversation allowed for the U.S. Treasury team to gather insights from voices of experience as they shape their strategy for moving the World Bank’s general capital increase package through the U.S. legislatives process.