The World's Banker Explained

Author:	Sebastian Mallaby
Language:	English
Publisher:	Penguin Press
Release Date:	2004
Pages:	432
Media Type:	Print: hardback
Isbn:	1594200238
Followed By:	(2010)
Preceded By:	After Apartheid (1992)

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) is a financial biography book. British journalist Mallaby is a highly ranked member of the Council on Foreign Relations, 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."

"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."

Editions

• The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations. Penguin Press, October, 2004. Hardcover USA. 1st ed. pages: 432.
• The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations. Penguin Press, October 2004. Paperback. 1st ed. pages: 432.
• The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations. Penguin Press, April 25, 2006. Hardcover USA. 2nd ed. pages: 496.

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

• Kindle other electronic book editions.
• Audiobook edition by Audible Audio.

See also

• "James David Wolfensohn". World Bank. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 26 November^[1]
• World Bank biography; retrieved 7 May 2008^[2]

External links

• After Words interview with Mallaby on More Money Than God, August 28, 2010

Notes and References

1. https://archive.today/20110807074239/http://go.worldbank.org/ZXI9UM8LS0/ World Bank biography
2. Web site: James David Wolfensohn. 26 November 2020. World Bank. en. 12 November 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201112030550/https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/archives/history/past-presidents/james-david-wolfensohn. live.