OGEL Profile No 6: World Bank (including IBRD, IDA, IFC, ICSID, MIGA)
Article from: OGEL 5 (2003), in OGEL Profiles
Introduction
The World Bank has become the most significant international economic development institution, far beyond the influence of the UN (including UNDP) or the EU, both in terms of funding volume, but also in terms of leadership in terms of ideas, policies and programme orientation. The intensity of criticism, and now sometimes even physical attack against the Bank, mirrors its prominence in its leadership role. As globalisation weakens nation states (and domestic political processes),[2] politicisation envelops the hitherto politically quite comfortably insulated international ...