While the liberal establishment worldwide is appalled that a US neoconservative ideologue and the architect of the US’ invasion of Iraq could be moving to the World Bank, the political reality is that few obstacles will be put in the way of Paul Wolfowitz taking the top job. Europeans and others may privately detest what is seen to be a unilateral White House appointment but this seems of little consequence. The real question is what a Wolfowitz World Bank will mean for the war on poverty and growth in the developing world.
Possible sea change