Hausmann, a Venezuelan, is planning a very different public
presence after leaving the IDB. He's deeply worried about events in
his country, where he once was the minister of planning, and wants
to speak about them publicly in ways that aren't possible at one of
the multilateral development banks.
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| Hausmann: "We need to make sure that we
are not part of the problem" |
Hausmann's departure is clearly a major loss for the
development community in Washington. "He was tremendously effective
and basically put the research arm of the IDB on the map," says
Sebastian Edwards who served as chief economist of the Latin
American and Caribbean Department at the World Bank from 1993 to
1996. "The IDB had been producing research, some of it high
quality, all along, but it was not being noticed."
Always provocative, Hausmann was known for looking into new areas
and coming up with controversial solutions,...
