Preface -- CDG working group report -- Hardest job in the world: five crucial tasks for the new president of the World Bank / prepared by a Center for Global Development Working Group, Nancy Birdsall and Devesh Kapur, co-chairs -- Selected essays -- Global credit club, not another development agency / by Nancy Birdsall -- Votes and voices: reforming governance at the World Bank / by Masood Ahmed -- Battle for the Bank / by Ngaire Woods -- World Bank and low-income countries: the escalating agenda / by William Easterly -- Role of the Bank in low-income countries / by Steve Radelet -- Has the World Bank lost control? / by Adam Lerrick -- World Bank and the middle-income countries / by David de Ferranti -- Missing mandate: global public goods / by Michael Kremer -- "Knowledge" Bank / by Devesh Kapur -- Evaluations and aid effectiveness / by Pierre Jacquet -- Evaluation agenda / Ruth Levine, William D. Savedoff -- World Bank: buy, sell or hold? / by Mark Stoleson.