{"id":850,"date":"2006-02-20T07:49:27","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T12:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/go-cabal\/"},"modified":"2006-02-20T07:49:27","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T12:49:27","slug":"go-cabal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/go-cabal","title":{"rendered":"Go, Cabal!"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to this WashPost piece by Sebastian Mallaby<\/a>, Paul Wolfowitz is doing a good job at revamping the World Bank’s policies regarding lending money to despotic regimes and graft-ridden contracts:<\/p>\n

The new boss is going to be tough on corruption, and he’s going to push this campaign beyond the confines of the World Bank; on Saturday he persuaded the heads of several regional development banks to join his anti-corruption effort. It’s amusing to see the Wolfensohn-Stiglitz left-liberal critique of narrowly economic development policy being championed by this neoconservative icon; and it’s encouraging as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to this WashPost piece by Sebastian Mallaby, Paul Wolfowitz is doing a good job at revamping the World Bank’s policies regarding lending money to despotic regimes and graft-ridden contracts: The new boss is going to be tough on corruption, and he’s going to push this campaign beyond the confines of the World Bank; on … <\/p>\n

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