Eugene Rotberg and the World Bank: Worth spending one’s life on

Eugene Rotberg served as treasurer of the World Bank between 1969 and 1987

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Globalization means different things to different people. Like democracy, its application can only ever hope to please some of the people some of the time. 

But it is hard to see how any right-minded individual can dispute that in its purest form, globalization of capital flows can only be a power for good.