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Empowering the Poorest? The World Bank and the ‘Voices of the Poor’

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World Bank intervention in the world’s poorest countries has undergone a dramatic transformation in less than a decade. In the name of the world’s most marginalized and vulnerable people, World Bank regulatory intervention has become more detailed and far-reaching than ever before. Simultaneously, World Bank development policy has been substantially modified to elevate the perceived needs of the poorest. Today, it is hard to find a major World Bank study that does not defer to what it has termed the ‘voices of the poor’. The World Bank has gone to great lengths to seek out the most impoverished and isolated people in poor countries to solicit their views on development. These consultations have most notably been brought together in the World Bank study Voices of the Poor, which synthesizes the experiences of over 60,000 people from 60 countries.1


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