New book: 'Rescuing the World Bank'

Are the World Bank's shortcomings exaggerated or potentially fatal? If potentially fatal, can this critical institution be rescued? So asks a new book, Rescuing the World Bank, published by the Center for Global Development. It's a wide ranging and provocative volume. The CGD have posted many of the essays (PDF files) online:

Preface

A Global Credit Club, Not Another Development Agency by Nancy Birdsall

Votes and Voice: Reforming Governance at the World Bank by Masood Ahmed

The Battle for the Bank by Ngaire Woods

The World Bank and Low-Income Countries: The Escalating Agenda by William Easterly

The Role of the Bank in Low-Income Countries by Steven Radelet

Has the World Bank Lost Control? by Adam Lerrick

The World Bank and the Middle-Income Countries by David de Ferranti

The Missing Mandate: Global Public Goods by Michael Kremer

The "Knowledge" Bank by Devesh Kapur

Evaluations and Aid Effectiveness by Pierre Jacquet

The Evaluation Agenda by Ruth Levine and William D. Savedoff

The World Bank: Buy, Sell, or Hold? by Mark Stoleson

Comments

[Tom Grey - Liberty Dad]

The World Bank should have, as its primary measure for all anti-poverty efforts, a single measure: the number of private-sector jobs directly created.

Poverty "will be history" if, and only if, every able bodied willing worker has a job.

[A. PERLA]

"Poverty "will be history" if, and only if, every able bodied willing worker has a job."

Easier said than done ...

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