What of the World Bank?
The World Bank and the IMF are getting together for their annual meeting in Singapore. This year it’s not just talk of exchange rates and balance of payments – the United States is pushing hard to give greater weight to Asian and other emerging market economies. To help us understand the dynamics at play, we’re joined by Zanny Minton-Beddoes, Washington Economics Editor from The Economist. In Focus: Mongolian Ping Pong Mongolian Ping Pong is a new film that tells the tale of a young child’s intrigue with an object he calls a glowing pearl found floating down the river in his Inner Mongolian village. The object, a ping pong ball, leads the boy, Bilike, to more adventures with his friends, throughout the beautiful Mongolian countryside. In this clip, Bilike’s enthusiasm is temporarily crushed when he is told by an elder the glowing pearl is not the mythical object he hoped it was. Beautiful in its cinematography and pleasant in its storyline, Mongolian Ping Pong also offers a narrative o
The World Bank and the IMF are getting together for their annual meeting in Singapore. This year it’s not just talk of exchange rates and balance of payments – the United States is pushing hard to give greater weight to Asian and other emerging market economies. To help us understand the dynamics at play, we’re joined by Zanny Minton-Beddoes, Washington Economics Editor from The Economist. In Focus: Mongolian Ping Pong Mongolian Ping Pong is a new film that tells the tale of a young child’s intrigue with an object he calls a “glowing pearl” found floating down the river in his Inner Mongolian village. The object, a ping pong ball, leads the boy, Bilike, to more adventures with his friends, throughout the beautiful Mongolian countryside. In this clip, Bilike’s enthusiasm is temporarily crushed when he is told by an elder the “glowing pearl” is not the mythical object he hoped it was. Beautiful in its cinematography and pleasant in its storyline, Mongolian Ping Pong also offers a narrati
