>The World Bank isn't all that much better; since big project lending
>is right out of fashion, and there are very few other kinds of projects that
>are worth lending to, it keeps trying to muscle its way into the aid business,
>usually with bad results.
My old pal Juliette Majot, one of the early 50 Years is Enough people, said when the WB was indeed about 50 years old, that the only mission they had left was commodifying nature. Now that the WB is over 60, maybe they've even run out of that mission.
Doug