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Lessons For The World Bank From Fiji And Barbados
As Finance Ministers and Government Leaders gathered for the World Bank’s spring meetings last week in DC, the atmosphere was thick with buzzwords like “resilience,” “MDB reform,” “SDRs,” “liquidity,” and the all too often repeated catchphrase, “turning billions into trillions”. While these terms may sound impressive, it’s easy to lose sight of the real impact they have on people and communities. It’s time to bring common sense back into the equation, and remember that the solutions the world needs are often much simpler than the buzzwords suggest. Far from the lofty halls of the World Bank, thousands of miles away on the picturesque island of Fiji, 85-year-old farmer Sant Kumar…

