The World Bank as a political, intellectual and financial actor

Since its founding in 1944–1946, the World Bank has stood out for its originality among the international organizations created after World War II. This book, a bold work and an excellent history of the World Bank, is a meticulous research effort using original documents and primary sources, enabling the author to construct a valuable reconstruction of the Bank's trajectory within the context of the major global transformations that occurred between 1944 and 2008.