A Critique of World Bank Promises to End Global Poverty
by
Glynn Cochrane
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
50 years ago, World Bank President Robert McNamara promised to end poverty. Alleviation was to rely on economic growth, resulting in higher incomes stimulated by Bank loans processed by deskbound Washington staff, trickling down to the poorest. Instead, child poverty and homelessness are on the...