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GEGI: Studart Gives Brazilian Perspective on World Bank

The Global Economic Governance Initiative, a research initiative at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, hosted a discussion with Senior Visiting FellowRogerio Studart who provided a Brazilian perspective on the election process and governance structure of the World Bank.

Studart is a prominent international economist who brings more than 30 years of experience as an international consultant and negotiator and as an expert on development finance issues. Previously he served as the Executive and Alternate Director to the World Bank Group, Executive Director at the Inter-American Development Bank and the Inter-American Investment Corporation.

Studart discussed the process of electing Jim Yong Kim as President of the World Bank in July 2012, and how developing countries attempted to foster discussion about the three candidates who were running for the position at the time.

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