If Dr. Benjamin Loevinsohn had looked out the window of his 11th-floor office in Washington,
DC, last April, he would have seen protesters dumping a truckload of manure on his …

Development assistance works best when local officials commit to making it work. The
success stories are rarely, if ever, the result of outside experts leading the way. The critical …

Maris O'Rourke: The World Bank is an intergovernmental agency that first raises money by
selling bonds and then lends that money—more than $20 billion a year—to developing …

Thirty-one percent of people living in East Asian countries survive on $1 to $2 per day, which
is the very definition of extreme poverty, according to the 2006 World Development …

If debtors prisons were still in fashion, many countries around the world would now be in jail.
Poland, Rumania, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico—all recently have found themselves teetering …

Completing this assignment of writing a book on a rather complicated subject is one of the
most arduous works undertaken by the authors. No doubt the earlier two books also had to …