When Politics Corrupts Money

By SHIRIN EBADI and AMIR ATTARAN

Published: June 16, 2004
"The World Bank has a human rights problem: it doesn't respect them enough. The bank also has a political problem: concern about global poverty, according to its president, James D. Wolfensohn, is "near a low point." Yet the bank, concerned about the second problem, seems to lack awareness of the first — to the detriment of its mission to help the world's poor."....