In the aftermath of World War II, the birth of development economics was paralleled by the growth of development organizations, the most prominent of which was the World Bank. Not surprisingly, the paths of the Bank and of the pioneers of the new discipline often crossed, and it is fair to say...

Recollections of the first years of life of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development insist on its almost natural devotion to the financing of infrastructural and directly productive projects, and in suborder underline the fact that juxtapositions that developed inside the...