The World Bank is quite a hotbed of radicalism these days. I see that the chief theoretician of the 'International Socialists' Nigel Harris is working for them, too.
Perhaps this explains the Bank's increasing emphasis upon social conditions for debt restructuring.
It will be interesting to see how these radical views become elements of the case for the World Bank.
In message <3959F460.3FED118 at btinternet.com>, Bruce Robinson
<bruce.rob at btinternet.com> writes
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>> Financial Times - June 26, 2000
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>> British academic faces stern test at World Bank
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>Nick Stern made various none too successful attempts to teach me economics at
>Oxford in the early 70s. I
>would then have described him as a left liberal,
-- James Heartfield
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