A new deal or a new global partnership for conflict-affected states? (Oscar Fernandez Taranco, Brookings)

Created within a year of each other, the World Bank and the United Nations were born out of a shared response to the Second World War. The war created a constituency willing to invest resources and ideals in a system of multilateral cooperation. In the words of one of their architects, these institutions were to create a “New Deal for a new world.”

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