World Bank, Car freedom, oil

Barry Rene DeCicco bdecicco at umich.edu
Mon Sep 25 09:33:03 PDT 2000


From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>

Jim heartfield wrote:


>The reorganisation of the World Bank under the liberal-minded US
>economics professor James Wolfensohn

James Wolfensohn was an investment banker - who once worked for the CIA-associated Schroders, among others - and holds economists in pretty low regard. Under his reign, pro-poor softies have been purged, not encouraged.

Doug

I guess the official neoliberal 'Washington Consensus' line is that the WB and IMF are dominated by fuzzy, pooer-loving liberals.

Barry



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