What does the World Bank do and how does it do it? -- The emerging critique -- Fifty years of bank reforms -- The 1990s--reengineering the organization -- Changing culture and changing people -- Reforming the bank's assistance product -- Changing the quality of development assistance --...

Using the Latinobarómetro survey, this paper examines Latin Americans' perceptions of the IDB, the World Bank and the IMF. The study analyzes how people's knowledge and evaluation of these multilateral organizations are affected by the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the...