Development economics needs to better help policymakers - Zoellick
Friday, October 08, 2010
In a speech ahead of the Bank's Annual Meetings in Washington, Zoellick said the global economic crisis had made the need for a rethink of development economics even more compelling. Development knowledge should become "multi-polar" to recognize the rising importance of developing countries as new poles of growth and experience.
"There is a new opportunity, and certainly a pressing need, for dynamism in development economics. Software has brought new tools; the Internet has brought new communications; rising economies have brought new experiences," he told an audience at Georgetown University. "We need to listen and democratize development economics."
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