WORLD BANK ANTI-CORRUPTION INITIATIVE – TRANSPARENCY
April 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORMER Pentagon deputy Paul Wolfowitz has brought the zeal and energy he applied to invading Iraq to his new job as president of the World Bank. Only this time his target is corruption everywhere, rather than despotism in Iraq, and his weapons are legal and political, not bombs and missiles. Keith Nuthall reports.
WHEN arch neo-conservative defence-hawk Paul Wolfowitz was appointed head of the world's largest development agency, not a few eyebrows were raised. How could this man, who was reviled in some quarters for pushing a potentially ...
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