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Summer is here. Time to rejuvenate!

Stay engaged, connected, active.

The Summer 2025 edition of the 1818 Society Quarterly is now available.

 

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Recent Announcements

  • Website Improvements

Over the next few months you will see incremental changes as we update our website to make information easier to find on the Society’s website. As a start, we have reorganized the content of the About Us and Health Insurance web pages. Check them out.

In a later phase we plan to revamp the website design in order to give readers an enhanced user experience. Stay tuned.

  • Beyond the Bank: Retirees Turn to the Page

This week the Bank’s Intranet published a story about the 1818 Society Book Repository. (Source: World Bank Group News/Who We Are/July 24, 2025/Ashley Cohen) Read more.

  • The 1818 Society office will be closed for the summer from August 4, 2025 to August 15, 2025.
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  • 2025 Election: Search Committee finalizes Candidates for the Board of Directors

The Search Committee for the 2025 Election has completed its search and deliberations and finalized its report. Four (4) candidates have been nominated for the three (3) Director vacancies. The four candidates are:

• Merli Baroudi
• Vinh Nguyen
• Van Pulley
• Sanjivi Rajasingham

Voting will take place from Thursday, September 25 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025. Results will be announced at the Annual Business Meeting on November 13, 2025. To see the full announcement, click here.

  • Emergency Contacts Database

1818 Society maintains a secure, confidential database of emergency contacts for members who provide us this information. If you have not provided  us your emergency contact, you can either update  it on your Member Profile online or send an email to 1818society@wbgalumni.org with this data. For those of you who have already provided your emergency contact information, review to make sure that it is up-to-date. To update your profile, log in to the Society’s website, click on Member Profile and enter your emergency contact information. Click on Update Profile at the bottom of the page to save your changes.

 

 

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Member Blog Posts

Member blogs include thematic articles of 600-800 words on books or research by members, or human interest stories by members.  To submit a thematic blog write to the relevant TG chair; for human interest blogs write to 1818society@wbgalumni.org, with “Blog Proposal” in the subject line.

Strong vs. Weak Dollar: The Dilemma of U.S. Currency Policy
July 29, 2025 | Istvan Dobozi*

Washington appears conflicted over the role of the dollar. On one hand, the administration champions a strong dollar as a symbol of …

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The New China, Its People: Vignettes from my 30 Years on the Ground – Part 2
July 11, 2025 | Hernan Levy

In Part 1, I described my work with the World Bank Institute (WBI) from 1983 to 1990, organizing seminars and teaching senior …

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At Last a Handbook on Public Debt Management
May 22, 2025 | Marcelo Giugale*

Name any emerging or developing country and chances are that it is, has at some point been, or will soon be under …

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