Judging by his speeches, James Wolfensohn, the head of the World Bank, has been stung by recent attacks. For some time the Bank has been "enhancing" its views on development, not just listening to the critics' charges but going some way towards pleading guilty. The new World Development Report, with its opaque calls for poor people in developing countries to be "empowered", marked a new stage in this process. Now comes "The Quality of Growth", which marks another.
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