The World's Banker

The World's Banker
AuthorSebastian Mallaby
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEconomic development, Finance, Foreign Policy , World Bank, International finance
PublisherPenguin Press
Publication date
2004
Media typePrint: hardback
Pages432
ISBN1594200238
Preceded byAfter Apartheid (1992) 
Followed byMore Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (2010) 

Sebastian Mallaby's The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations (2004) (The World's Banker)[1] is a financial biography book. British journalist Mallaby is a highly ranked member of the Council on Foreign Relations,[2] working in international economics.

Summary

Mallaby follows a formula in his books, using each chapter to focus on a different geographic concern related to the world bank during the tenure of J.D. Wolfensohn.

  • Preface: The Prisoner of Lilliput
  • Chapter One: A Tale of Two Ambitions - concerns the outlook of U.S. president after the attacks.
  • Chapter Two: “World Bank Murderer”
  • Chapter Three:The Renaissance President
  • Chapter Four: A Twister in Africa
  • Chapter Five: Mission Sarajevo
  • Chapter Six: Narcissus and the Octopus
  • Chapter Seven: The Cancer of Corruption
  • Chapter Eight: Uganda's Myth and Miracle
  • Chapter Nine: A Framework for Development
  • Chapter Ten: From Seattle to Tibet
  • Chapter Eleven: Waking Up to Terror
  • Chapter Twelve: A Plague upon Development
  • Chapter Thirteen: Back to the Future
  • Chapter Fourteen: A Lion at Carnegie
  • Afterword: regarding the appointment of successor Paul Wolfowitz

Reception

"Mallaby gives us a sophisticated, evenhanded take on the bank's last decade of development efforts."[3]

"Mallaby, a Washington Post editorial writer, provides a sympathetic yet critical assessment of the World Bank under Wolfensohn's leadership, crediting him for bringing the bank much closer to its developing-country clients but faulting him for trying to take on too wide a scope of activity without a clear and manageable set of priorities." [4]

Editions

This edition features a new afterword by the author that analyzes the appointment of Paul Wolfowitz as Wolfensohn's successor at the World bank.

See also

  • "James David Wolfensohn". World Bank. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 26 November[5]
  • World Bank biography; retrieved 7 May 2008[6]

References

  1. ^ "The World's Banker", Council on Foreign Relations, October 2006, retrieved 2 February 2022
  2. ^ "sebastian mallaby", Academic Influence, 2018, retrieved 2 February 2022
  3. ^ Drezner, Daniel W. (5 December 2004), "'The World's Banker': Give to the Poor", New York Times, retrieved 2 February 2022
  4. ^ Cooper, Richard N. (January 2005), "'The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations", Foreign Affairs, retrieved 2 February 2022
  5. ^ World Bank biography; retrieved 7 May 2022
  6. ^ "James David Wolfensohn". World Bank. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2020.