The paper documents and analyses the World Bank's promotion of foreign ownership of banking in developing countries. In … the wake of two decades of financial crises following exercises of orthodox financial reform, the World Bank has not only … information problems are largely dismissed by the Bank. In fact the World Bank argues for the very opposite, the existence of …

In the World Bank’s last annual report the Federal Republic of Germany was described as a leading member of the World … Bank Group (IBRD, IFC and IDA). The Federal Republic has subscribed about $ 1.4 bn to the capital of the World Bank and to … taking a negative attitude to the World Bank Group. Why does it do so? …

is the appropriate method of measuring benefits, a previous step must be taken as a forerunner to good ex-post evaluation …