financial institutions (IFIs). For multilateral development banks like the World Bank, their central mission, the promotion of … growth and the reduction of poverty, is clear. The steps toward fulfilling this mission in a changing world are also … our thinking both on why we have IFIs in the first place, and the role that they should play in a changing world. …

The World Bank is a prestigious and large international financial institution. Since its foundation it has widened the … scope and the size of its activities. One interpretation of what the World Bank is doing is the provision of public goods … more and more the functions of a world government in the making. An alternative interpretation would look at the World Bank …