30 SEPTEMBER 1989, page 25

In Borrioboola-gha

AN unbecoming spectacle at these meet- ings is the World Bank in a paler shade of green. Poor old thing, she had a hard time in Berlin last year, when the students actually......

City And Suburban

The world's bankers tell Nicholas Brady: we'll say we've won, and go home CHRISTOPHER FILDES T h Washington ese annual talkfests and liver function tests, officially the......

Appleby In Action

SIR HUMPHREY Appleby, who appears to be advising the British delegation, must be proud of his work on the IMF's quotas. The managing director wants them dou- bled, as managing......

Pole Star

THE Poles are the meetins' novelty. Ministers and officials stuck with their own familiar problems are happy to take time off and suggest how to solve Poland's, and its finance......