Document Type
Essay
Publication Date
2025
Abstract
This essay will discuss how the MDBs- for example, the World Bank Group, the African, Asian, and Inter-American Development Banks, and more recently the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and the New Development Bank – are dealing with the issue of accountability. It will argue that, although the MDBs have been leaders in promoting international organizational accountability, their mechanisms of accountability are not keeping up with the evolution in their operations. In the interests of promoting new and creative thinking about these issues, it will also make an ambitious proposal for how the MDBs jointly can more effectively meet the accountability challenge that they face while also respecting the sovereignty of their member states and protecting an appropriate level of immunity for the MDBs
Recommended Citation
Bradlow, Daniel D., "A Proposal for One “Super” Independent Accountability Mechanism" (2025). Perspectives. 33.
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/accountability-perspectives/33
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