The World's Banker

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The World's Banker
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Author Sebastian Mallaby
LanguageEnglish
Subject Economic development, Finance, Foreign Policy , World Bank, International finance
Publisher Penguin Press
Publication date
2004
Media typePrint: hardback
Pages432
ISBN 1594200238
Preceded byAfter Apartheid (1992) 
Followed by More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (2010) 

Sebastian Mallaby's The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations (2004) (The World's Banker) [1] is a financial biography book. British journalist Mallaby is a highly ranked member of the Council on Foreign Relations, [2] working in international economics.

Contents

Summary

Mallaby follows a formula in his books, using each chapter to focus on a different geographic concern related to the world bank during the tenure of J.D. Wolfensohn.

Reception

"Mallaby gives us a sophisticated, evenhanded take on the bank's last decade of development efforts." [3]

"Mallaby, a Washington Post editorial writer, provides a sympathetic yet critical assessment of the World Bank under Wolfensohn's leadership, crediting him for bringing the bank much closer to its developing-country clients but faulting him for trying to take on too wide a scope of activity without a clear and manageable set of priorities." [4]

Editions

This edition features a new afterword by the author that analyzes the appointment of Paul Wolfowitz as Wolfensohn's successor at the World bank.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The World's Banker", Council on Foreign Relations , October 2006, retrieved 2 February 2022
  2. ↑ "sebastian mallaby", Academic Influence, 2018, retrieved 2 February 2022
  3. ↑ Drezner, Daniel W. (5 December 2004), "'The World's Banker': Give to the Poor", New York Times , retrieved 2 February 2022
  4. ↑ Cooper, Richard N. (January 2005), "'The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations", Foreign Affairs , retrieved 2 February 2022
  5. ↑ World Bank biography; retrieved 7 May 2022
  6. ↑ "James David Wolfensohn". World Bank. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
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