Word: wolfowitzes
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...Paul Wolfowitz is used to getting his own way. As deputy defense secretary, Wolfowitz helped plan the U.S. invasion of Iraq; as a central figure in the Bush Administration's neoconservative camp, the former ambassador to Indonesia was one of the chief architects of the White House's ambitious and controversial plan to reshape the Middle East. When Wolfowitz took over as the president of the World Bank last year, he told TIME he would be "results driven...
...Wolfowitz is fast discovering that getting your way and getting results at one of the world's most powerful and complicated multilateral development agencies is no easy task. At a meeting in Singapore on Monday, the Bank's shareholder governments agreed to Wolfowitz's anti-corruption strategy but only if they oversee its management. Wolfowitz had wanted the Bank to disburse loans and grants based on the recipients' anti-corruption efforts, but the 24 members of the Development Committee, the World Bank's governing body, also insisted that the Bank use incentives rather than threaten sanctions to induce good behavior...
...decision was engineered by European and developing countries who worry that Wolfowitz has become obsessed with corruption to the exclusion of other issues. They were angry last year when Wolfowitz suspended $1 billion worth of projects in Bangladesh, Chad, Congo, Ethiopia, India and Kenya because of corruption. The funding resumed after countries agreed to implement anti-graft safeguards - measures that Wolfowitz's critics called window dressing...
...divert U.S. foreign policy as far from what the American national interest would otherwise suggest,” they wrote.They identify this lobby as a loose movement of organizations, such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the American Enterprise Institute, and officials such as Paul D. Wolfowitz and Connecticut Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who they claim stifle discussion of Israel’s flaws.“Israel is in fact a liability in the war on terror and the broader effort to deal with rogue?...
...development aid standards—in fact, a miracle can happen: “Africa,” “human rights,” and “optimism” can indeed be used in the same sentence. It may not surprise many that Paul Wolfowitz, the newly anointed chief of the World Bank, has ruffled feathers in his brief tenure. Quite brusquely, Wolfowitz suspended more than $800 million worth of loans in an effort to fight what his predecessor characterized as the “cancer” of corruption, upsetting not only third world governments...