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Robert Wade

  • Professor of Global Political Economy , Department of International Development, London School of Economics

Robert Hunter Wade is a political economy and development scholar. He is currently Professor of Global Political Economy at the Department of International Development, London School of Economics.

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Why the World Bank’s Governance Reform Is Stuck – and How to Break the Stalemate

Article By Jakob Vestergaard and Robert Wade | Sep 29, 2025

We examine the World Bank’s protracted and conflicted attempts at shareholding reform from 2008 to the present, situating them within the broader context of multipolarity and intensifying geopolitical rivalries.

How Western states keep the lead in the World Bank: Multipolarity, Geopolitics and the World Bank’s Conflicted Attempts at Shareholding Reform

Paper Working Paper | By Jakob Vestergaard and Robert Wade | Sep 2025

This paper examines the World Bank’s protracted and conflicted attempts at shareholding reform from 2008 to the present, situating them within the broader context of multipolarity and intensifying geopolitical rivalries.

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Still Swimming Against the Tide?

40 Years of Thinking on Trade and Development

YSI Event Workshop YSI | Aug 1–7, 2021

The 4th UNCTAD YSI Summer School celebrates the approach and legacy of UNCTAD’s annual Trade and Development Report (TDR). The school will bring together UNCTAD experts, academics, diplomats, and young scholars from across the globe for lively and stimulating intellectual debates.