IMF AND WORLD BANK: Read my lips, says Jim Wolfensohn

World Bank president James Wolfensohn believes the Bank is becoming a more caring place, closer to the client it's trying to serve. One advanced management course includes a taste of poverty: living a week in a slum or village. Social aspects must match financial and macro concerns, he tells James Smalhout

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  “Corporate change takes a minimum of
five years …
I believe we’re
through the trough”


Is it true that Robert McNamara approached you, as he was preparing to leave the Bank in 1980, about becoming president and that you became an American citizen so that you could be considered for the job?


Bob submitted a number of names to president Carter to succeed him and he spoke to me and told me I was one of them.

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