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The World Bank’s ‘development’ delusion

Jason Hickel by Jason Hickel 28 September 20122 October 2012

When Jim Yong Kim took the helm of the World Bank in July, progressives in the development community hailed it as a turning point in the fight against poverty: for once the bank is headed not by a US military boss or a Wall Street executive, but by an actual expert in the field of […]

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