Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 05/2011

The World Bank and the Emerging World Order Adjusting to multipolarity at the second decimal point

Jakob Vestergaard

April 2011

Danish Institute for International Studies

Abstract

The voice reform process originated in the Monterrey Consensus, which was articulated at the United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development held in Monterrey on 22 March 2002. For several years after the Monterrey Consensus, progress in deliberations on voice reform in the governing bodies of the World Bank was modest. But the global economic crisis raised the urgency of reforming the Bretton Woods institutions in the eyes of most countries and the creation of a G20 Leaders Forum gave further impetus to the voice reform process.