Chapter 1: Introduction
PART I: Poverty and the World Bank's Evolving Purpose
Chapter 2: The Bank for Reconstruction, 1944-1948
Chapter 3: The Bank of the 1950s
Chapter 4: Approaching the Poor, 1959-1968
Chapter 5: Poverty Moves Up
Chapter 6: Waging War on Poverty
Chapter 7: Demotion and Rededication: 1981 to the mid-1990s
Chapter 8: Agriculture and Rural Development
Chapter 9: Policy-Linked Lending: I
Chapter 10: Policy-Linked Lending: II
Chapter 11: The Latin American Debt Crisis
Chapter 12: The Weakness of Strength: The Challenge of Sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter 13: The International Finance Corporation
PART II: The Bank in the World Bank
Chapter 14: The Evolution of the World Bank as a Financial Institution
Chapter 15: Riding the Credit Boom
Chapter 16: Coping with Financial Turbulence
Chapter 17: IDA: The Bank as a Dispenser of Concessional Aid
Chapter 18: The Bank's Institutional Identity: Governance, Internal Management, External Relations
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