Publication: At the Frontlines of Development : Reflections from the World Bank
Date
2005
ISSN
Published
2005
Author(s)
Abstract
At the Frontlines of Development former
World Bank country directors recount their experiences, both
as managers of the World Bank's programs in global
economic hotspots of the 1990s as well as throughout their
careers in development economics. These essays detail, among
many stories of development in the 1990s, how China and
India lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, while
Russia collapsed; how Bosnia and Herzegovina and Mozambique
remade their war-ravaged economies; and how Thailand,
Turkey, and Argentina fell into financial crisis. These
remarkable stories, told in first-person by the country
directors who were there to witness them, provide candid
assessments of development in the 1990s-what succeeded, what
failed, and what lessons emerged.
Citation
“Gill, Indermit S.; Pugatch, Todd. 2005. At the Frontlines of Development : Reflections from the World Bank. © Washington, DC: World Bank. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/7357 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”