Answering the critics

Headline: Answering the criticsSource: EuromoneyDate: September 2001 World Bank president James Wolfensohn, talking to Euromoney’s James Smalhout, responds to the many criticisms being thrown at the institution, points to some of its recent achievements and outlines a vision of how it might work in future.         James Wolfensohn How do you respond […]

Headline: Answering the critics
Source: Euromoney
Date: September 2001

World Bank president James Wolfensohn, talking to Euromoney’s James Smalhout, responds to the many criticisms being thrown at the institution, points to some of its recent achievements and outlines a vision of how it might work in future.

       
James Wolfensohn
How do you respond to secretary of the Treasury Paul O’Neill’s statement in his speech last June to the Detroit Economic Club that the world hasn’t gotten enough, in terms of poverty reduction, for the funding that it has made available to the World Bank?
I think that, if you take the last decade, we’ve had some substantial improvements.






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