The World Bank - Friend or Foe to the Developing World?

When poor countries become desperate for economic help, they turn to the World Bank for loans. However, these loans come with strings attached - the World Bank imposes certain harsh conditions on debtor countries to ensure that their loans will be repaid. The Fund's standard package is designed to "get the economy going again", but the consequences for the poor are catastrophic because the World Bank, to put it loosely, "encourages" more land to be …

…strategies are often too aggressive and short-term and do not allow the fragile poor countries to gradually build up to their development expectations. It makes me sick that they use people in this way and then toss them aside and send away the bill. I hope that someday they stop getting all their funding and so other countries see that they are hurting people by supporting the World Bank, and making their own pockets bigger.