[anglian]

Since arriving at the bank, Wolfowitz has argued that the biggest barrier to development in many poor countries is a high level of government corruption.

“Corruption is often at the very root of why governments do not work,” Wolfowitz argued in a speech in Indonesia in April 2006.

"Wolfowitz wanted to change the rules in the middle of the game," says a French official who asked to remain anonymous while discussing the Congo negotiations. The World Bank Board, the official says, told Wolfowitz, "You cannot work like this."

The French and other European government representatives argued forcefully that the World Bank needed to remain engaged in poor countries such as Congo, regardless of how corrupt their governments may be.

The Wolfowitz argument that fighting corruption is a prerequisite for ending poverty is diametrically opposed to the views of many Bank professionals.

"The World Bank is a development institution, not an anti-corruption institution," says Dennis de Tray, who left the bank in 2006... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9525865

[Cicero]

Not a surprise. We know that the French like to work with corrupt third world governments.

[Kitten Festival]

He doesn’t have any idea about the dynamics of corruption. He should read some of Hernando de Soto’s studies about how corruption happens and what it’s a byproduct of on .. surprise, the World Bank’s site. It’s obvious he’s not familiar with the material.