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The kerfuffle over whether Paul Wolfowitz, the World Bank's president, behaved badly regarding the contract for his companion to facilitate her departure from the bank involves no large issue. The bank's existence does. The bank's rationale, never strong, has evaporated.
Born in 1944, at the apogee of confidence in governments and international governmental organizations, the bank's mission is "to fight poverty with passion and professionalism." The great prerequisite for curing poverty is, however, economic growth, and the world has learned, during a 63-year retreat from statism, that the prerequisite for growth is free markets allocating private capital to efficient uses.See the full content of this document
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Wolfowitz Isn't the Issue
Much of what recipient countries save by receiving the bank's subsidized loans they pay in the costs of "technical assistance," the euphemism for being required to adopt the social agendas of rich nations' governm...
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