Successes
The Bank has taken a proactive role worldwide. It has attempted to adopt a vocal role in addressing concerns of biodiversity, ozone depletion, narcotics, crime, corruption, and post-conflict reconstruction, particularly in the Balkans and West Bank.
Failures
The World Bank has lent money to admittedly undemocratic, often brutal dictatorships, in the hopes that economic stability will lead to government reform. Yet "the public infrastructure projects funded by the IBRD have consistently been recognized as unmitigated disasters. Notably, Brazil's Polonoroeste road-building project set a significant portion of the Amazon rainforest on fire; the Sardar Sarovar dam project in India uprooted 240,000 Indians and was condemned by the World Bank's own panel of investigators;...Internal reports...
The UN and NGOS may address the World Bank's mission more effectively, without the Bank's stress upon economic liberalism that may not be 'right' for a nation at a particular juncture in its development
Works Cited
About us." The World Bank. Retrieved March 10, 2009 at http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/0,contentMDK:20653660~menuPK:72312~pagePK:51123644~piPK:329829~theSitePK:29708,00.html
Weekes, Rob. "World Bank: Success or Failure?" Ideabate.org. June 21, 2005.
March 10, 2009 at http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=173
Works Cited
About us." The World Bank. Retrieved March 10, 2009 at http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/0,contentMDK:20653660~menuPK:72312~pagePK:51123644~piPK:329829~theSitePK:29708,00.html
Weekes, Rob. "World Bank: Success or Failure?" Ideabate.org. June 21, 2005.
March 10, 2009 at http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=173
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