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Leader Profile: Justin Yifu Lin, World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President

In what former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently dubbed as a “once-in-a-century credit tsunami,” the global financial meltdown has undeniably created ripples of negative economic impacts that threaten not only banking systems but also modest achievements made in the field of development.

“The worst-case scenario, a deep global recession, is not absur…

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