Wolfowitz's new war

摘要

When George Bush nominated Paul Wolfowitz to head the World Bank a year ago, plenty of people worked themselves into a tizzy. Would the former deputy defence secretary turn the world's top aid agency into an arm of American foreign policy? Would the intellectual architect of the Iraq war make as much of a hash of fighting poverty as his former employers had made of governing Iraq? So far, there is scant evidence that Mr Wolfowitz bows to America's bidding. On both climate change and debt relief, the Bank's president has taken issue with his former boss. For all that, his impact on the Bank and poverty is unclear. His tenure will depend, in large part, on the outcome of a new campaign: his attack on graft.