Frank Vogl

Never before has the American Constitution been under as much assault as now - Trump is encouraging autocracy at home, and overseas.

Finance Ministers meeting in Washington DC for their Spring IMF/World Bank meetings failed to address the multiple economic challenges of our times with any degree of urgency - incrementalism is just not good enough.

The world faces its gravest humanitarian crisis in many decades at a time when official development assistance is declining - the World Bank needs to relieve the crisis as an exception to its usual long-term lending.