Taxpayer-supported International Financial Institutions (IFIs), like the World Bank, are supposed to be guided by missions committed to eradicating poverty, sharing prosperity and accelerating social progress. The reality is different.
Author: Elaine Zuckerman
Elaine Zuckerman is President of Gender Action. After she joined the World Bank in 1980 as an economist, she went on to create the Bank's first program to globally mitigate Structural Adjustment Loans' harmful impacts on the poor, especially on women, and work in the gender unit. In the 1990s, she was also Coordinator of the Social Agenda Policy Group at the Inter-American Development Bank.
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