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The World Bank Needs to Return to Its Mission

Author:
Jeffrey D. Sachs

The World Bank declares that its mission is to end extreme poverty within a generation and to boost shared prosperity. These goals are universally agreed as part of the Sustainable Development Goals.

But the World Bank lacks an SDG strategy, and now it is turning to Wall Street to please its political masters in Washington.

The Bank’s president, Jim Yong Kim, should find a better way forward, and he can do so by revisiting one of his own great successes.

The article's full-text is available here.

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11.02.2018

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