Raising the Stakes in Global Development Banking
The fastest emerging economies in the world, which account for $16 trillion in GDP and 40% of the population, are consolidating their resources with the aim to break the monopoly of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. And why not? If they are managed well, banks will become high profile, prestige institutions that demonstrate power and intent, as well as being profitable businesses. Both the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the BRICS’ New Development Bank (NDB) are aiming to create financial systems that better serve their own interests. Using their own resources to finance joint, large-scale projects in transport, energy and industrial development they will – if successful, disrupt, if not dethrone, six decades of US dollar hegemony.…