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Parent topics
- Economics [r]: The analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. [e]
- Financial system [r]: the interactive system of organisations that serve as intermediaries between lenders and borrowers. [e]
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Leaders
Present
- Robert Zoellick [r]: President of the World Bank; previously Vice Chairman, International of the Goldman Sachs Group, Managing Director, and Chairman of Goldman Sachs' Board of International Advisors from 2006-07; Deputy Secretary of the U.S. State Department (2005-06), United States Trade Representative 2001-2005; Former Research Scholar, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 1999-2000 [e]
Past
- Jessica Einhorn [r]: Dean, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; board member, Center for Global Development; former managing director, vice president and treasurer of the World Bank; former visiting fellow at the International Monetary Fund; formerly served as director of the Council on Foreign Relations [e]
- Paul Wolfowitz [r]: An American political scientist and policy-level foreign affairs official, of a neoconservative ideology; resident American Enterprise Institute and on International Security Advisory Board; Deputy Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush Administration; advisor, Project for the New American Century [e]
- Robert McNamara [r]: A specialist in quantitative management who became president of the Ford Motor Company, but was quickly nominated as Secretary of Defense, becoming a major architect of policy, especially for the Vietnam War, in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations. [e]
Other related topics
- Financial Stability Forum [r]: International economic group consisting of major national financial authorities such as finance ministries, central bankers, and senior financial bodies. [e]
- Globalization [r]: The interaction of peoples, cultures, and businesses worldwide, which tend to overcome traditional national and cultural boundaries [e]
- Washington Consensus [r]: An interpretation of the conditions required by the International Monetary Fund for financial assistance to developing countries. [e]
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- Great Depression [r]: the severe downturn in economic activity that started in 1929 in Germany and the United States and affected many other countries. [e]
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- Social capital [r]: the community's productive assets other than its physical capital - comprising those social relationships, ideologies and institutions that contribute to production. [e]
- U.S. Department of the Treasury [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. foreign policy [r]: The foreign relations and diplomacy of the United States since 1775. [e]
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