I heard a good segment on NPR on the World Bank. Fresh Air interviewed a biographer of James Wolfensohn, current President of the World Bank. The bottom line, as framed by the biographer was this:
Shall the World Bank serve as the Secretariat to the Northern nations' agenda for the developing world (the protection of the environment and indigineous peoples), or shall it be a service organization for the developing world that wants to treat the environment and native people the same way the now-wealthy northern nations did (that is, with total disregard for either)?
No comments:
Post a Comment