Voice for the World's Poor: Selected Speeches and Writings of World Bank President, James D. Wolfensohn, 1995-2005

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2005

HC59

0-8213-6156-2

Voice for the world's poor; selected speeches and writings of World Bank president, James D. Wolfensohn, 1995-2005.

Wolfensohn, James D.

The World Bank, [c]2005

546 p.

$29.95

Wolfensohn recently stepped down from the presidency of the World Bank, handing his post to Paul Wolfowitz after a nearly decade long tenure. While critics of the Bank might point to Bank policies during Wolfensohn's tenure and question the sincerity of his words, in his speeches and writings he stressed the centrality of fighting global poverty to its mission. Containing formal addresses, newspaper op-eds, letters, forewords to books, messages to shareholders, this volume presents a chronological selection that highlight issues of global poverty, as well as issues of institutional change at the Bank. Other topics tackled by Wolfensohn include women and development, investment in education, the East Asia financial crisis, prospects for peace in occupied Palestine, the role of information technology in globalization, the war against AIDS in Africa, and the value of public-private partnerships.