Foreword / Strobe Talbott -- Introduction and overview / Colin I. Bradford Jr. and Johannes Linn -- International institutional reform -- IMF reform : congruence with global governance reform / Jack Boorman -- Strengthening the IMF : lessons from history / James M. Boughton -- The World Bank :...

The Imperative of Development highlights the research and policy analysis produced by the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings. The Center, which operated from 2006 to 2011, was the first home at Brookings for research on international development. It sought to help identify effective...