World Bank's World Development Report on Poverty
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Key World Bank author resigns
Ravi Kanbur, lead author of the World Bank's forthcoming World Devel-
opment Report (WDR) on Poverty, has tendered his resignation. His
resignation as lead author deals a serious blow for the World Bank
and for sensible discussion of globalisation. Ravi Kanbur has sent a
letter to senior Bank management expressing his concerns about what
he saw as unreasonable pressure to tone down WDR sections on global-
isation. Reliable Washington sources indicate that US Treasury Secre-
tary Larry Summers has got directly involved in re-writing the glob-
alisation sections of this report, which is likely to be extremely
prominent in future discussions of international issues and in guid-
ing aid interventions.
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