Reforming the World Bank: Twenty Years of Trial - and Error

In the many studies of the World Bank a critical issue has been missed. While writers have looked at the Bank’s political economy, lending, conditions, advice, ownership and accounting for issues such as the environment, this study looks at the Bank as an organization – whether it is set up to do the job it is supposed to do and, if not, what should be done about it. The book is about the problems of organization and reorganization as much as it is about the problems of assisting third-worl...