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May 8, 2006
Who Would've Guessed with Paul Wolfowitz in Charge?
The Lancet, the world's leading independent general medical journal, has an editorial entitled, "The World Bank: false financial and statistical accounts and medical malpractice in malaria treatment." A group of authors from across the the ideological spectrum point out how the World Bank is not only dropping the ball in doing its part to help to fight Malaria, it's earning corruption style points as it does it. Here's the intro:
The World Bank has an annual budget of US$20 billion, and is the largest organisation operating with a mission to reduce poverty worldwide. Malaria destroys about 1 million lives a year; the disease is the leading parasitic cause of death for Africa's children and impoverishment for their families. Here we examine how these factors meet in the new Global Strategy & Booster Program, which is the Bank's plan for controlling that disease in 2005–10.1We believe this plan is inadequate to reverse the Bank's troubling history of neglect for malaria. In the past 5 years, the Bank has failed to uphold a pledge to increase funding for malaria control in Africa, has claimed success in its malaria programmes by promulgating false epidemiological statistics, and has approved clinically obsolete treatments for a potentially deadly form of malaria. Crucially, the Bank also downsized its malaria staff, so that it cannot swiftly execute the restoration it plans under the Global Strategy & Booster Program. We summarise the evidence, show that the Bank possesses demonstrably little expertise in malaria, and argue that the Bank should relinquish its funding to other agencies better placed to control the disease.
The entire article can be found here. (Free registration required.)
Posted by mattalexander at May 8, 2006 1:21 PM
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Comments
So how does the whole World Bank president thing go? Does each President get to nominate someone new, or is it a lifetime kinda thing?
Just wondering how much longer the earth will have to suffer the Bush-doctrine after he's gone.
Posted by: Charlie at May 8, 2006 1:52 PM
Not too sure. I know he underwent vetting and then was voted on. My guess is he's there until he decides he's done, unfortunately.
Posted by: Matt at May 8, 2006 3:11 PM
